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  • 1touch-tone — ADJ: ADJ n A touch tone telephone has numbered buttons that make different sounds when you press them. Some automatic telephone services can only be used with this kind of telephone …

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  • 2touch-tone — touch′ tone or touch′tone n. tgp a telephone dialing system using push buttons to generate ten tones of different pitch, each tone corresponding to a digit of a telephone number • Etymology: 1955–60, amer …

    From formal English to slang

  • 3touch-tone — ☆ touch tone [tuch′tōn΄ ] adj. [< Touch Tone, a former trademark] designating or of a type of telephone that may be used with a service (touch tone) that responds to individual fixed electronic tones activated by corresponding buttons pushed… …

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  • 4touch-tone phone — UK US noun [countable] [singular touch tone phone plural touch tone phones] a telephone that has buttons with numbers on them that make a sound when you press them Thesaurus: telephones and telecommunication equipment …

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  • 5Touch-Tone phone — Touch Tone .phone n trademark a telephone that produces different sounds when different buttons are pushed …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 6touch-tone phone — noun count a telephone that has buttons with numbers on them that make a sound when you press them …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 7touch-tone — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of a telephone) generating tones to dial rather than pulses …

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  • 8Touch-Tone — ˈ ̷ ̷ ¦ ̷ ̷ trademark used for a telephone having push buttons that produce tones corresponding to numbers * * * /tuch tohn /, adj. 1. of or pertaining to a tone dialing system or a push button phone operating on tone dialing. n. 2. (sometimes… …

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  • 9touch-tone phone — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms touch tone phone : singular touch tone phone plural touch tone phones a telephone that has buttons with numbers on them that make a sound when you press them …

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  • 10touch-tone — adjective Etymology: from Touch Tone, a trademark Date: 1962 of, relating to, or being a telephone having push buttons that produce tones corresponding to numbers …

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