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to speak to someone by phone I phoned my sister last night.

—SYNONYM call

phone book / ' foun buk /

( also tel • e • phone book ) noun [ count ]

a book of people's names, addresses, and telephone numbers

phone booth / ' foun bue /

( also tel • e phone booth ) noun [ count ]

a public telephone in the street

phone call / ' foun kol / ( also tel • e • phone call ) noun [ count ]

when you use the phone to talk to someone I need to make a phone call.

phone card / ' foun kard / noun [ count ]

a small plastic card that you buy and use to make calls to people from any telephone

phone num • ber / ' foun |ПЛшЬэГ /

( also tel • e phone num • ber ) noun [ count ]

the number of a particular phone that you use when you want to make a call to it What's your phone number?

pho • net • ic / fa ' netik / adjective

( ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS ) using special signs to show how to say words

the phonetic alphabet used in a dictionary

pho • net • ics / fa ' netiks / noun [ noncount ]

( ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS ) the study of the sounds that people make when they speak

pho • to / ' foutou / noun [ count ] ( plural pho • tos )

a photograph

Here's a photo of my sister.

pho • to • cop • i • er / ' foutakapiar / noun [ count ]

a machine that makes copies of documents by photographing them

pho • to • cop • y / ' foutakapi / noun [ count ] ( plural pho • to • cop • ies )

a copy of something on paper that you make with a photocopier

pho • to • cop • y verb ( pho • to • cop • ies , pho to • cop y ing , pho to • cop ied , has pho • to cop • ied )

Could you photocopy this letter for me?

pho .to .graph ® / ' foutagrref / )

noun [ count ]

a picture that you take with a camera I took a photograph of the library.

pho • to • graph ( pho • to graphs , pho to • graph ing , pho • to•graphed )

( formal )

The winner was photographed holding his prize.

pho • tog • ra • pher / fa ' tagrafar / noun [ count ]

a person who takes photographs, especially as a job

pho • tog • ra • phy / fa ' tagrafi / noun [ noncount ] taking photographs

pho • to • graph • ic / |fouta ' grrefik / adjective

connected with photographs or photography photographic equipment

pho • to • syn • the • sis / foutou ' sineasis /

noun [ noncount ]

( BIOLOGY ) the process by which green plants turn a gas in the air ( carbon dioxide ) and water into food, using light from the sun

phras • al verb / |freizl 'varb / noun [ count ]

( ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS ) a verb that joins with another word or words to make a verb with a new meaning "Pick someone up" and "take off" are phrasal verbs.

phrase Ф / freiz / noun [ count ]

( ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS ) a group of words that you use

together as part of a sentence

"First of all" and "a bar of chocolate" are phrases.

phys • i • cal 1 Ф AWL / ' fizikl / adjective

connected with things that you feel or do with your body physical exercise

phys • i • cal • lyAWL / ' fizikali / adverb I'm not physically fit.

phys • i • cal 2 AWL / ' fizikl / noun [ count ]

( HEALTH ) an examination of your body by a doctor to see if you are healthy

I'm going in for my annual physical on Thursday.

phys • i • cist / ' fizasist / noun [ count ]

( PHYSICS ) a person who studies or knows a lot about physics

phys • ics / fiziks / noun

[noncount]

the scientific study of things like heat, light, and sound

phy • sique / fa ' zik / noun [ count ]

the size and shape of a person's body a strong, muscular physique

pi / pai / noun [ singular ]

( MATH ) the symbol n. It is used to show the relationship between the distance around a circle (its circumference ) and the distance across it (its diameter ), which is about 3-14159-

pi .an.ОФ / pi'senou / noun [ count ] ( plural pi • an • os )