phone

Phoneme is a related term of phone.

In context|linguistics|lang=en terms the difference between phone and phoneme

is that phone is (linguistics) a speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language while phoneme is (linguistics) an indivisible unit of sound in a given language a phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.

As nouns the difference between phone and phoneme

is that phone is a device for transmitting sound in real time across distances or phone can be (linguistics) a speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language while phoneme is (linguistics) an indivisible unit of sound in a given language a phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.

As a verb phone

is to call (someone) on the telephone.

As nouns the difference between phone and android

is that phone is a device for transmitting sound in real time across distances or phone can be (linguistics) a speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language while android is a robot that is designed to look and act like a human (usually male).

As a verb phone

is to call (someone) on the telephone.

As a adjective android is

possessing human qualities.

As nouns the difference between phone and computer

is that phone is a device for transmitting sound in real time across distances or phone can be (linguistics) a speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language while computer is {{context|now|_|rare|chiefly|_|historical|lang=en}} a person employed to perform computations; one who computes {{defdate|from 17th c}}.

As a verb phone

is to call (someone) on the telephone.