"phonelike" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "phone + -like",
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  "etymology_text": "From phone + -like.",
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    {
      "form": "more phonelike",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most phonelike",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "2016 August 25, Garrett Mitchell, Michael Kiefer, “Turn in Phoenix 'serial street shooter,' collect $75K, remain anonymous. Here's how Silent Witness works.”, in azcentral:",
          "text": "The system is rudimentary, almost old-fashioned. Silent Witness ensures complete anonymity by using a rotary phonelike system that doesn't have caller ID. Citizens are provided with a case number when they call, and that will be the only signifier that tipsters are who they say they are.",
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        {
          "ref": "2016 September 20, Steven Musil, Richard Nieva, “Google may unveil its new phone at Oct. 4 event”, in CNET:",
          "text": "The October 4 event was announced in a YouTube video that shows the web giant's familiar horizontal search bar slowly morphing into the outline of a vertical, phonelike rectangle to the sounds of Redbone's \"Come and Get Your Love.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 October 26, Nicholas De Leon, “Tablet Buying Guide”, in Consumer Reports:",
          "text": "You can buy a keyboard for most tablets and prop up the screen so that it’s just like typing on a laptop. That’s fine if the keyboard is more of an afterthought, and if you like the phonelike interface of a device such as the iPad.",
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        "Resembling or characteristic of a phone, especially a cell phone."
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          "phone",
          "phone"
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          "cell phone",
          "cell phone"
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  "word": "phonelike"
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "phone",
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      },
      "expansion": "phone + -like",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From phone + -like.",
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    {
      "form": "more phonelike",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most phonelike",
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          "ref": "2016 August 25, Garrett Mitchell, Michael Kiefer, “Turn in Phoenix 'serial street shooter,' collect $75K, remain anonymous. Here's how Silent Witness works.”, in azcentral:",
          "text": "The system is rudimentary, almost old-fashioned. Silent Witness ensures complete anonymity by using a rotary phonelike system that doesn't have caller ID. Citizens are provided with a case number when they call, and that will be the only signifier that tipsters are who they say they are.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 September 20, Steven Musil, Richard Nieva, “Google may unveil its new phone at Oct. 4 event”, in CNET:",
          "text": "The October 4 event was announced in a YouTube video that shows the web giant's familiar horizontal search bar slowly morphing into the outline of a vertical, phonelike rectangle to the sounds of Redbone's \"Come and Get Your Love.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 October 26, Nicholas De Leon, “Tablet Buying Guide”, in Consumer Reports:",
          "text": "You can buy a keyboard for most tablets and prop up the screen so that it’s just like typing on a laptop. That’s fine if the keyboard is more of an afterthought, and if you like the phonelike interface of a device such as the iPad.",
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        "Resembling or characteristic of a phone, especially a cell phone."
      ],
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