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touch-tone

or ٴdzܳ·ٴDzԱ

[ tuhch-tohn ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to a tone-dialing system or a push-button phone operating on tone dialing.


noun

  1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a tone-dialing system.
  2. a telephone utilizing this system.

touch-tone

adjective

  1. of or relating to a telephone dialling system in which each of the buttons pressed generates a tone of a different pitch, which is transmitted to the exchange
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of touch-tone1

An Americanism dating back to 1955–60
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One of the most reliable ways for the U.S. to reach North Korea is via a light pink-colored, touch-tone phone at the U.S.-led U.N.

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There is a bank of touch-tone phones across from the gift shop and a few rows of them adjacent to a concession stand near the 18th tee, with instructions on how to use your credit card so you can give someone a shout just to tell them where you’re calling from.

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Rhyming in alien purrs and phantasmal coos, it’s as if he’s melting into his beats, which often evoke possessed technologies that Yeat and his producers are too young to remember: touch-tone phones and 8-bit Nintendo games speaking in tongues.

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She remembers being mystified by a test question involving a touch-tone phone.

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Barbara Moran, director of social programs for Atria Senior Living where Mont lives, says one of the biggest challenges residents face with their devices is that they are used to pushing, not tapping, as if they’re using a touch-tone telephone.

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