telephone vs wireless telephone

wireless telephone vs telephone

telephone and wireless telephone both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

telephone (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
transmitting speech at a distance	telephony that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire

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

Difference between telephone and wireless telephone

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