phone, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

phone (phones plural & 3rd person present) (phoning present participle) (phoned past tense & past participle )

1 n-sing The phone is an electrical system that you use to talk to someone else in another place, by dialling a number on a piece of equipment and speaking into it. (=telephone)
You can buy insurance over the phone...

2 n-count The phone is the piece of equipment that you use when you dial someone's phone number and talk to them. (=telephone)
Two minutes later the phone rang...

3 n-sing If you say that someone picks up or puts down the phone, you mean that they lift or replace the receiver. (=receiver)
She picked up the phone, and began to dial Maurice Campbell's number...

4 verb When you phone someone, you dial their phone number and speak to them by phone. (=telephone, ring)
He'd phoned Laura to see if she was better... V n

5 If you say that someone is on the phone, you mean that they are speaking to someone else by phone.
♦ on the phone phrase
She's always on the phone, wanting to know what I've been up to. phone in

1 phrasal verb If you phone in to a radio or television show, you telephone the show in order to give your opinion on a matter that the show has raised.
Listeners have been invited to phone in to pick the winner. V P

2 phrasal verb If you phone in to a place, you make a telephone call to that place.
He has phoned in to say he is thinking over his options.

3 phrasal verb If you phone in an order for something, you place the order by telephone.
Just phone in your order three or more days prior to departure. V P n, Also V n P

4 phrase If you phone in sick, you telephone your workplace to say that you will not come to work because you are ill.
On Monday I was still upset and I phoned in sick to work. phone up phrasal verb When you phone someone up, you dial their phone number and speak to them by phone.