What's the difference between phone and phoney?

Phone


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
  • (2) "In my era, we'd get a phone call from John [Galliano] before the show: this is what the show's about, what do you think?
  • (3) Just don’t be surprised if they ask you to repair their phones, too.
  • (4) Sharif Mobley, 30, whose lawyers consider him to be disappeared, managed to call his wife in Philadelphia on Thursday, the first time they had spoken since February and a rare independent proof he is alive since a brief phone call with his mother in July.
  • (5) I have the BBC app on my phone and it updates me, and I saw the wire ‘Malaysian flight goes missing over Ukraine.’ I’m like, well it’s probably the Russians who shot it down.
  • (6) "I was in the car with Matthew and he held out his phone and said: 'We need to talk about this' with a very serious face, and my immediate thought was somebody had found where I lived and had made a direct threat.
  • (7) Its struggling mobile phone business resulted in a net loss of 136 billion yen for the three months to September, although that figure was smaller than analysts had predicted.
  • (8) The £1m fine, proposed during the Leveson inquiry into press standards, was designed to demonstrate how seriously the industry was taking lessons learned after the failure of the Press Complains Commission tto investigate phone hacking at the News of the World.
  • (9) They also had speakers, long before boomboxes and mobile phones pushed sounds out in public.
  • (10) The latest annual report from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has revealed that there was 582,727 requests for phone, web browsing and location data – commonly known as “metadata” – that can reveal detailed information about a person’s personal lives and associations.
  • (11) Ed Balls, the shadow home secretary, today called on the head of the Metropolitan police to reopen the investigation into phone hacking by the News of the World.
  • (12) I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesn’t feel very satisfying.
  • (13) Customers who sign up to the Tesco Mobile Xtras programme will see an extra full-screen ad roughly every third time they unlock their phone.
  • (14) Source: Mediacells (Or view the map at OpenHeatMap ) At the other end of the scale, a number of countries will see proportionately few new buyers - suggesting that the remaining featurephone owners are declining to upgrade to more powerful phones.
  • (15) I've spoken to her on the phone and seen her a couple of times, but I've not noticed any change in Georgina.
  • (16) While there's no indication of whether Zuckerberg's teams will act on Dediu's advice, the rumours that Facebook is working on a phone have surfaced from time to time – most recently in April, when the Taiwanese news site Digitimes suggested it is working with Taiwan's HTC to build a device integrating all the Facebook functions, for release this autumn.
  • (17) If they included a warning in the package ‘tamper resistance’ feature that works by non-Apple-authorised repair services may be mistaken for tampering attempts, and lead to the phone being disabled’, then it would be purely a feature ... By concealing the feature prior to sales, and only even revealing it after being repeatedly pressured over it, Apple turned what could have been a feature into a landmine.” Apple shares have fallen more than 20% in the past three months as investors begin to doubt whether it can maintain the stellar growth posted since the iPhone first went on sale eight years ago.
  • (18) More Apple and Android phones have now been sold, for example, than all the Japanese cameras ever made.
  • (19) January 2011 • Ian Edmondson, the News of the World's assistant editor (news), is suspended following a "serious allegation" relating to phone hacking during Andy Coulson's editorship of the paper.
  • (20) Jowell said she was first told that her phone had been hacked "on 28 or 29 occasions" by the police in May 2006.

Phoney


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The phrase “currency war” speaks to a seemingly phoney battle between the world’s major trading powers over the price of exports.
  • (2) Criticism of the European Union has for too long been dominated by a phoney chauvinistic Euroscepticism that ignores the real interests that have driven its development.
  • (3) We are still in the midst of the uneasy period of phoney war before the cuts actually bite, but we now know what's coming: the deepest and quickest reductions in public spending since the 1920s – which, according to an under-reported quote from David Cameron , will not be reversed, even when our economic circumstances improve (2 August, at an event in Birmingham: "Should we cut things now and go back later and try and restore them later?
  • (4) Then all of a sudden I see her, she’s now got the big phoney tits and everything.
  • (5) But surely the problem is not the display of antipathy - it is the phoney feel of it all, as opposing parties score points like public school debaters.
  • (6) This month the phoney war over Euro membership will get slightly more real.
  • (7) In his speech at the party's spring conference in Birmingham, Cable accused the Conservatives of engaging in a "phoney war over cuts" that would affect millions of lives.
  • (8) Sure, activists are interested in how much the candidate can raise, but not how much they can raise here.” Even the politicians’ harshest critics concede there is little chance of being able to inflict meaningful punishment on phoney primary candidates, preferring instead to see any FEC appeal as a symbolic attempt to draw attention to how broken the system is.
  • (9) Other balderdash included Nick Clegg's phoney claim : "As a proportion of this country's wealth, this government will be spending more in public spending at the end of this parliament after all these cuts, than Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were when they came into power."
  • (10) Glade discovered that Whittamore's ultimate source was a civilian worker at Wandsworth police station, south London, Paul Marshall, who was logging phoney 999 calls in order to justify accessing the computer records of public figures who were of interest to newspapers.
  • (11) The pair met in London, but the phoney deal fell through.
  • (12) In a foreword to what Open Britain calls the “Brexit contract”, the MPs write: “The phoney war is over.
  • (13) He also attacked the Tories too for waging a "phoney war" about when to make cuts and claimed neither they nor the government had the "courage to come up with the details of the cuts we will need in the years ahead to tackle Britain's deficit".
  • (14) Caspar Field: With Nintendo now clearly in another market segment, this is a phoney war, and I think both PS4 and Xbox One will sell well.
  • (15) Sly Stallone is a real athlete; he gets stuck in.” But he’s riled by the number of phoneys he sees around him.
  • (16) Mr Cameron has tried to spin out the phoney war on Europe for as long as possible, hoping not to provoke his backbenchers unnecessarily and trying to persuade the more reasonable ones to accept his approach.
  • (17) At first, when she came home, there was the "phoney war".
  • (18) At some point, maybe we should all sit and have a think about what kind of politicians we actually want – because right now it feels like a choice between the careerist and the phoney clown.
  • (19) Perhaps young people who did not know the cold war threat of nuclear annihilation are more susceptible to the phoney scaremongering of today.
  • (20) "In a sense, that will be the end of this phoney war," added Butcher.