wireless telephone vs phone

phone vs wireless telephone

wireless telephone and phone both are nouns.

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

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

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

wireless telephone: 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 wireless telephone include telephone, telephone set.

wireless telephone (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

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

Difference between wireless telephone and phone

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