phone vs vowel

phone and vowel both are nouns.

phone is a verb but vowel is not a verb.

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

As nouns, vowel is a hyponym of phone; that is, vowel 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
vowel: a speech sound made with the vocal tract open

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

phone (noun)	vowel (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 made with the vocal tract open
electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear	a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel
(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

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

Difference between phone and vowel

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