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A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc. +

(colloquial) A person's telephone number (as a means of contact); digits.

To call (someone) using a telephone. +

(reporting verb) To say via telephone.

(phonetics) A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.