Electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds:
— I talked to him on the telephone.

synoniemen: telephone, telephone set.

Roget 418: hearing etc. v.; audition, auscultation; eavesdropping; audibility.    acute ear, nice ear, delicate ear, quick ear, sharp ear, correct ear, musical ear; ear for music.    ear, auricle, lug, acoustic organs, auditory apparatus; eardrum, tympanum, tympanic membrane.    [devices to aid human hearing by amplifying sound] ear trumpet, speaking trumpet, hearing aid, stethoscope.    [distance within which direct hearing is possible] earshot, hearing distance, hearing, hearing range, sound, carrying distance.    [devices for talking beyond hearing distance: list] telephone, phone, telephone booth, intercom, house phone, radiotelephone, radiophone, wireless, wireless telephone, mobile telephone, car radio, police radio, two-way radio, walkie-talkie [Mil.], handie-talkie, citizen's band, CB, amateur radio, ham radio, short-wave radio, police band, ship-to-shore radio, airplane radio, control tower communication; (communication) 525, 527, 529, 531, 532; electronic devices [devices for recording and reproducing recorded sound], phonograph, gramophone, megaphone, phonorganon^†.    [device to convert sound to electrical signals] microphone, directional microphone, mike, hand mike, lapel microphone.    [devices to convert recorded sound to electronic signals] phonograph needle, stylus, diamond stylus, pickup; reading head (electronic devices). hearer, auditor, listener, eavesdropper, listener-in.    auditory, audience.    [science of hearing] otology, otorhinolaryngology.    [physicians specializing in hearing] otologist, otorhinolaryngologist.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: hoe gaat het?, telefoon, telefoontoestel
Pools: aparat, aparat telefoniczny, telefon

phonetics An individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language.

synoniemen: sound, speech sound.

Pools: głoska

Electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear:
— It was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked.

synoniemen: earphone, earpiece, headphone.

Nederlands: oormicrofoon, hoofdtelefoon, koptelefoon, oortelefoon
Pools: słuchawka

Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone.

synoniemen: call, call up, ring, telephone.

Nederlands: aanbellen, aanschellen, bellen