phone

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.

Daragh's on the phone at the moment. He'll call you when he's finished.

My phone ran out of battery.

There's an old-fashioned phone in the doctor's waiting room - it doesn't work anymore, of course.

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

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.

To call (someone) using a telephone.

Phone me as soon as you land at the airport.

Her father told her to phone him to pick her up in case it started raining heavily.

To say via telephone.