radiotelephone vs phone

phone vs radiotelephone

radiotelephone and phone both are nouns.

radiotelephone is not a verb while phone is a verb.

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

As nouns, phone is a hypernym of radiotelephone; that is, phone is a word with a broader meaning than radiotelephone:

radiotelephone: a telephone that communicates by radio waves rather than along cables
phone: electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds

Other hypernyms of radiotelephone include telephone, telephone set.

radiotelephone (noun)	phone (noun)
a telephone that communicates by radio waves rather than along cables	electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
telephony that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire	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

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

Difference between radiotelephone and phone

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