phone vs voiced sound

voiced sound vs phone

phone and voiced sound both are nouns.

phone is a verb but voiced sound is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
phone	Yes	No	Yes	No
voiced sound	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, voiced sound is a hyponym of phone; that is, voiced sound 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
voiced sound: a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords

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

phone (noun)	voiced sound (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 accompanied by sound from the vocal cords
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)	voiced sound (verb)
get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone

Difference between phone and voiced sound

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