phone vs pay-phone

pay-phone vs phone

phone and pay-phone both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

Other hyponyms of phone include desk phone, dial phone, dial telephone, extension, extension phone, telephone extension, French telephone, handset, pay-station, radiophone, radiotelephone, wireless telephone, speakerphone.

phone (noun)	pay-phone (noun)
electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds	a coin-operated telephone
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)	pay-phone (verb)
get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone

Difference between phone and pay-phone

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