phone vs wireless telephone

wireless telephone vs phone

phone and wireless telephone both are nouns.

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

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

As nouns, wireless telephone is a hyponym of phone; that is, wireless telephone 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
wireless telephone: a telephone that communicates by radio waves rather than along cables

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

phone (noun)	wireless telephone (noun)
electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds	a telephone that communicates by radio waves rather than along cables
electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear	telephony that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire
(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

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

Difference between phone and wireless telephone

Words related to "wireless telephone"

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