phone vs telephone receiver

telephone receiver vs phone

phone and telephone receiver both are nouns.

phone is a verb but telephone receiver is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
phone	Yes	No	Yes	No
telephone receiver	Yes	No	No	No

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

phone: electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear
telephone receiver: earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds

Other hyponyms of phone include earplug, receiver.

phone (noun)	telephone receiver (noun)
electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds	earphone that converts electrical signals 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

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

Difference between phone and telephone receiver

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