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phoning

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈfəʊnɪŋ//
  • United States//ˈfoʊnɪŋ//

The act of placing a telephone call.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of phonepresent participle and gerund of phone

noun

  1. 1

    informalThe act of placing a telephone call.

    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 […]

Forms

plural
phonings
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).