Main entry: earphone, earpiece, phone, headphone
Definition: electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear
Usage: it was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked
Main entry: telephone, telephone set, phone
Definition: electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
Usage: I talked to him on the telephone
Main entry: sound, speech sound, phone
Definition: (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
Main entry: ring, phone, call, call up, telephone
Definition: get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
Usage: I tried to call you all night; Take two aspirin and call me in the morning