pay-phone vs phone

phone vs pay-phone

pay-phone and phone both are nouns.

pay-phone is not a verb while phone is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pay-phone	Yes	No	No	No
phone	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, phone is a hypernym of pay-phone; that is, phone is a word with a broader meaning than pay-phone:

pay-phone: a coin-operated telephone
phone: electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds

Other hypernyms of pay-phone include telephone, telephone set.

pay-phone (noun)	phone (noun)
a coin-operated telephone	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

pay-phone (verb)	phone (verb)
	get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone

Difference between pay-phone and phone

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