Phone

Definition

phone /fǝƱn/ n (က) တယ္လီဖုန္း။ The phone is ringing – answer it ,will you? ❍ I must just make a quick phone call. ❍ the phone bill ❍ order sth over the phone ❍ a portable phone ❍ He gave them his phone number. See also CAR PHONE, ENTRYPHONE, PAY PHONE (ခ) တယ္လီဖုန္း (စကားေျပာခြက္ႏွင့္ နားၾကပ္ပါသည့္) လက္ကိုင္။ My little girl picked up the phone. ❍ He banged the phone down. ❍ I took the phone off the hook. See also ANSWERPHONE v ~ (sb) (up) ဖုန္းဆက္သည္။ Did anybody phone? ❍ Phone (them) up and find out what time the play starts, will you? ❍ I asked them to phone for a taxi. ❍ Don't forget to phone New York. ❍ For further information phone 0181 690 9368. ❏ be on the phone [ IDM ] ၁။ တယ္လီဖုန္းေျပာသည္။ He's been on the phone to Rachel for an hour. ၂။ ( Brit ) တယ္လီဖုန္းရိွသည္။ I'm afraid I'm not on the phone. ❏ phone book n = TELEPHONE DIRECTORY ❏ phone box (also phone booth , telephone box, telephone kiosk, Brit call-box ) n အမ်ားသံုး တယ္လီဖုန္း (႐ံု)။ ❏ phone in [ PHRV ] (မိမိအလုပ္ဌာန (သို႔) ေရဒီယို၊ ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကားဌာနသို႔) ဖုန္းဆက္အေၾကာင္းၾကားသည္။ Hundreds of listeners phoned in to complain. ❏ phone-in ( Brit ) ( US call-in ) n မည္သူမဆို တယ္လီဖုန္းျဖင့္ ပါဝင္ေဆြးေႏြးေမးျမန္းႏိုင္ၿပီး ယင္းေျပာဆိုခ်က္မ်ားကိုပါ ထုတ္လႊင့္ ေပးေသာ ေရဒီယို၊ ႐ုပ္သံ အစီအစဥ္။ a live phone-in show. ❏ phone tapping n = TELEPHONE TAPPING -phone comb form ၁။ (forming ns ) အသံျမည္ေသာ (သို႔) အသံ အသံုးျပဳေသာကိရိယာ။ a telephone ❍ a dictaphone ❍ a xylophone. ၂။ (forming adjs ) … ဘာသာစကားေျပာသူ။ anglophone ❍ franco phone. ❏ -phonic comb form (forming adjs ) အသံျမည္ေသာ (သို႔) အသံအသံုးျပဳေသာ။ telephonic.

Examples

1. May I use the phone in your office?
2. I don’t really need a new phone.
3. Just before I got off the bus my phone rang.
4. [answer the phone] : It took 19 minutes for someone to answer the phone (=pick it up when it rang).
5. A digital cordless phone
6. [on the phone] : Most teenagers spend hours on the phone every day.
7. [by phone/over the phone] : We take orders by phone or by email.
8. [pick up/put down the phone] : She picked up the phone but didn’t speak.
9. [put the phone down on someone] : Don’t you dare put the phone down on me!