electronic equipment vs phone

phone vs electronic equipment

electronic equipment and phone both are nouns.

electronic equipment is not a verb while phone is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
electronic equipment	Yes	No	No	No
phone	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, phone is a hyponym of electronic equipment; that is, phone is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than electronic equipment:

electronic equipment: equipment that involves the controlled conduction of electrons (especially in a gas or vacuum or semiconductor)
phone: electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds

Other hyponyms of electronic equipment include amplifier, audio system, sound system, cassette player, CD player, C.P.U., central processing unit, central processor, CPU, mainframe, processor, circuitry, detector, equaliser, equalizer, electron lens, lens, mixer, modem, monitor, monitor, auxiliary equipment, off-line equipment, cathode-ray oscilloscope, CRO, oscilloscope, scope, computer peripheral, peripheral, peripheral device, playback, radio-gramophone, radio-phonograph, scrambler, set, tape deck, tape player, telephone, telephone set, television equipment, video equipment, terminal.

electronic equipment (noun)	phone (noun)
equipment that involves the controlled conduction of electrons (especially in a gas or vacuum or semiconductor)	electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
	electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear
	(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

electronic equipment (verb)	phone (verb)
	get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone

Difference between electronic equipment and phone

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