英和和英

名詞

cellphone (plural cellphones)

1. Alternative form of cell phone.
   • 2009 July 23, “The Truth About Cars and Cellphones”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 6 May 2021:

     Six years later, the Transportation Department advises drivers to avoid cellphones except in emergencies.

   • 2024 January 26, Brian Fung, “The NSA buys Americans’ internet data, newly released documents show”, in CNN Business‎, archived from the original on 22 February 2025:

     Nakasone added that the NSA does not purchase cellphone location data of Americans or location data generated by automotive infotainment systems in the United States.

派生語

動詞

cellphone (third-person singular simple present cellphones, present participle cellphoning, simple past and past participle cellphoned)

1. (informal, transitive) To make a call on a cellphone.
   • 2003, Steven Suskin, Broadway Yearbook 2001-2002: A Relevant and Irreverent Record:

     They stood on line, and slept and ate and cellphoned, all night and into the day.

   • 2009 July 23, “The Truth About Cars and Cellphones”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 6 May 2021:

     That information —— including estimates that cellphoning drivers caused 955 fatalities and 240,000 accidents in 2002 —— was finally pried loose this week by a freedom of information lawsuit.

語源

Clipping of cellular phone.

名詞

cell phone (plural cell phones)

1. (chiefly Canada, US, New Zealand, Philippines) A portable, wireless telephone, which changes antenna connections seamlessly during travel from one radio reception cell to another without losing the party-to-party call connection.

同意語

• cell
• cellular mobile, cellular, cellular telephone, cellular phone
• handphone (mainly Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, South Korea)
• mobile (mainly UK and Australia)
• mobile phone
• sail foam (slang, humorous)
• wireless phone

上位語

• See also Thesaurus:phone