telephone receiver vs phone

phone vs telephone receiver

telephone receiver and phone both are nouns.

telephone receiver is not a verb while phone is a verb.

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

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

telephone receiver: earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds
phone: electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear

Other hypernyms of telephone receiver include earphone, earpiece, headphone.

telephone receiver (noun)	phone (noun)
earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds	electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
	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

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

Difference between telephone receiver and phone

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