CELL PHONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cell phone mean? 

• CELL PHONE (verb)
  The verb CELL PHONE has 1 sense:

1. call up by using a cellular phone

  Familiarity information: CELL PHONE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CELL PHONE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Call up by using a cellular phone

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

If the train is late, I will cell phone you

Hypernyms (to "cell phone" is one way to...):

call; call up; phone; ring; telephone (get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone)

Domain category:

telephone; telephony (transmitting speech at a distance)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

cellphone (a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver)

 Context examples 

“We note, however, that the tumors we saw in these studies are similar to tumors previously reported in some studies of frequent cell phone users.”

(High exposure to radiofrequency radiation linked to tumor activity in male rats, National Institutes of Health)

Health workers can use a cell phone or similar camera device for cervical screening and treatment during a single visit.

(AI approach outperformed human experts in identifying cervical precancer, National Institutes of Health)

“The exposures used in the studies cannot be compared directly to the exposure that humans experience when using a cell phone,” said John Bucher, Ph.D., NTP senior scientist.

(High exposure to radio frequency radiation associated with cancer, National Institutes of Health)

Don’t fall for spoofing scams—people who call your cell phone number and hide behind a false name that comes up on your screen.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The magnified fluorescent images were then recorded by the sensor chip in the cell phone.

(Smartphone microscope detects nanoparticles and viruses, NIH)

Teens manually using a cell phone doubled their odds of crashing.

(Reaching for objects while driving may raise teen crash risk nearly sevenfold, National Institutes of Health)

The miniaturizing technology, called implosion fabrication, could be applied to anything from developing smaller microscope and cell phone lenses to creating tiny robots that improve everyday life.

(Researchers Use Laser to Shrink Objects to Nanoscale, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It means operating a motor vehicle while you are affected by: • Alcohol • Legal or illegal drugs • Sleepiness • Distractions, such as using a cell phone or texting • Having a medical condition which affects your driving

(Impaired Driving, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)

So, these findings should not be directly extrapolated to human cell phone usage, said John Bucher, Ph.D., NTP senior scientist.

(High exposure to radiofrequency radiation linked to tumor activity in male rats, National Institutes of Health)

This power level rarely occurs with typical cell phone use.

(High exposure to radio frequency radiation associated with cancer, National Institutes of Health)