CONVERSATION TIPS 28

Phones, email and the internet Making calls  Part One area code the numbers for a particular area or city, which you use when you are making a phone call from outside the local area be on the phone to be using the phone call  verb to phone somebody call  noun the act of speaking to somebody on the phone call back  phrasal verb to phone somebody again or to phone somebody who phoned you earlier callback  noun a phone call that you make to somebody who has just called you caller a person who is making a phone call call-in  noun a radio or television programme in which people can phone and make comments or ask questions about a particular subject call in   phrasal verb to phone a place, especially the place where you work call up to make a phone call to somebody contact to communicate with somebody, for example by phone, letter or email cut off to interrupt somebody who is speaking on the phone by breaking the connection dial to use a phone by pushing buttons or turning the dial to call a number dial in to connect to a service or computer system using a phone line engaged (of a phone line) being used get hold of somebody to contact or find somebody get through to make contact with somebody by phone give somebody a bell (British English, informal) to call somebody by phone give somebody a buzz ( informal) to phone somebody give somebody a ring to make a phone call to somebody hold  (informal) used to ask somebody to wait on the phone line