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A phone is a speech sound considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the sound system of a language (see phonology and phonetics).
A phoneme is a set of phones that carry the same meaning; phones in a phoneme are said to be allophones of each other.
Phone is a colloquial[?] term for telephone; it is also a verb meaning to call someone on a telephone.
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