touch-tone

T t

Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
- [tuhch tohn]
- /tʌtʃ toʊn/
- /tʌtʃ təʊn/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [tuhch tohn]
- /tʌtʃ toʊn/

Definitions of touch-tone word

adjective touch-tone of or relating to a tone-dialing system or a push-button phone operating on tone dialing. 1
noun touch-tone (sometimes initial capital letter) a tone-dialing system. 1
noun touch-tone a telephone utilizing this system. 1
adjective touch-tone 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. 0
adjective touch-tone 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 0
adjective touch-tone 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 in placing a call 0

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Origin of touch-tone

First appearance:

before 1955

One of the 4% newest English words

An Americanism dating back to 1955-60

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Parts of speech for Touch-tone

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Touch-tone

touch-tone popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 34% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.