Phoning

//ˈfəʊnɪŋ// noun, verb, slang

noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of placing a telephone call. informal

    "So after all this hurry and hustle in the house, the coffee and papers and phonings, the soundings and measurements over the whole place, I was instructed to take off my apron and sit down […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of phone form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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callcallearphoneringtelephonetelephone

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"Jim could hear whom she was phoning."

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