phone vs ingressive

ingressive vs phone

phone and ingressive both are nouns.

phone is a verb but ingressive is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
phone	Yes	No	Yes	No
ingressive	Yes	No	No	No

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

phone: (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
ingressive: a speech sound by which the airstream flows inward through the mouth or nose.

Other hyponyms of phone include phoneme, vowel, vowel sound, glide, semivowel, consonant, orinasal, orinasal phone, sonant, voiced sound, aspirate.

phone (noun)	ingressive (noun)
electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds	a speech sound by which the airstream flows inward through the mouth or nose.
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

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

Difference between phone and ingressive

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