Pone vs Telephone - What's the difference?
pone | telephone |
(legal, historical) A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.
(wikipedia pone)
(Southern US) A baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs.
* 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, page 11:
An electronic device used for two-way talking with other people (often shortened to phone).
(US) Chinese whispers.
* {{quote-news, year=2013
, date=October 27
, author=Erik Adams
, title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “The PTA Disbands”
, work=The Onion AV Club
To contact someone by dialing his or her telephone number; to make someone's telephone ring using one's own telephone.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4
As nouns the difference between pone and telephone
is that pone is a writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts while telephone is an electronic device used for two-way talking with other people (often shortened to phone).As a verb telephone is
to contact someone by dialing his or her telephone number; to make someone's telephone ring using one's own telephone.pone
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pone and its source, .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) apones, .Noun
(en noun)- ‘Maybe you could fetch me just a little piece of pone ,’ I said, pleading, thinking: Big talk will fetch you nothing but nigger talk might work.
Derived terms
* corn poneSee also
* hominy gritsEtymology 3
Anagrams
* ----telephone
English
(wikipedia telephone)Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=And since the spring of 1995, no game of telephone has ended without some Simpsons-loving smart-ass dropping “purple monkey dishwasher” into the chain. }}
Synonyms
* blower, phone, farspeaker, Ameche (slang), dog and bone (slang), horn (informal) * See alsoDerived terms
* mobile telephone * public telephone * telephone book * telephone box * telephone call * telephone conference * telephone tag * telephonic * telephonyVerb
(telephon)citation, passage=“I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I??? Why didn’t I telephone ??? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”}}
