The difference between Phone and Ring up
When used as verbs, phone means to call (someone) on the telephone, whereas ring up means to telephone, to call someone on the telephone.
Phone is also noun with the meaning: a device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc.
check bellow for the other definitions of Phone and Ring up
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Phone as a noun:
A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc.
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Phone as a verb (transitive):
To call (someone) on the telephone.
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Phone as a noun (phonetics):
A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.
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Ring up as a verb (transitive, idiomatic):
To telephone, to call someone on the telephone.
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Ring up as a verb (transitive):
To enter (a payment) into a cash register, or till in a shop, or record a credit- or debit-card payment.
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Ring up as a verb (transitive):
To record the payment of.
Examples:
"The cashier took a long time to ring him up."
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Ring up as a verb (transitive):
To make an adverse official decision concerning (a person).
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Ring up as a verb:
To rouse by the ringing of a bell.
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Ring up as a verb (baseball, dated):
To strikeout a batter and thereby send him or her back to the dugout.