touch-toneadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈtʌtʃtəʊn/, U.S.

/ˈtətʃˌtoʊn/

Forms: also with capital initials.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: touch n., tone n.

Etymology: < touch n. + tone n.

A. adj.

Of, relating to, or utilizing a system of telephone dialling and signalling in which each digit and symbol is transmitted as a particular combination of audible tones, as generated by the keys of a push-button telephone; (also) designating this system. Chiefly in touchtone phone n., touchtone telephone n. at Compounds.The system, also called dual tone multi-frequency signalling, was first developed by AT&T as an alternative to the pulse dialling system employed by rotary telephones.

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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [adjective] > types of telephony

radio-telephonic1908

dial-up1960

touch-tone1960

cellular1972

1960 Bell Telephone Mag. Winter 54/2 The first service offering of Touch-tone calling began in November.

1961 Republican-Courier (Findlay, Ohio) 31 Oct. 3/4 The M. and S. Telephone Answering Service..is in the process of installing the touch tone system.

1972 Sci. Amer. Sept. 112/3 The first telephone switching systems were actuated by human operators; today the job is done automatically by means of a dial or ‘Touch-Tone’ terminal on the user's telephone.

1990 Oskaloosa (Iowa) Herald 25 Apr. 2/5 The Iowa Utilities Board ruled the phone company must supply touch tone service to all of its 750,000 Iowa customers whether they want it or not.

2012 R. Pieraccini Voice in Machine viii. 217 Once you've made the call and the connection is established, you're free to send other touch-tone signals by again pressing keys on your keypad.

B. n.

1. The touch-tone system (see sense A.).

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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > types of

telephonography1889

wireless telephony1899

radio-telephony1906

touch-tone1962

mobile telephony1965

POTS1970

society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of

microtelephone1879

field telephone1880

telephone extension1881

pay telephone1886

home telephone1893

substation1897

extension1906

railophone1911

dial phone1917

payphone1919

dial telephone1921

autophone1922

mobile telephone1930

viewphone1932

videophone1944

mobile phone1945

car phone1946

video telephone1947

speaker-phone1955

picture telephone1956

princess phone1959

touchtone telephone1961

touch-tone1962

touchtone phone1963

picture phone1964

Trimphone1965

princess telephone1966

vision-telephone1966

visiophone1971

princess1973

warbler1973

landline1977

cardphone1978

feature phone1979

smartphone1980

mobile1982

cell phone1983

Vodafone1984

cellular1985

mobile device1989

brick1990

satphone1991

celly1992

burner phone1996

keitai1998

burner2002

1962 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 19 June tm122 American Telegraph and Telephone Company, New York... Touch-Tone. For providing telephone communication service.

1972 Times 26 Jan. 18/6 In North America, ‘Touch-Tone’ is the rule rather than the exception.

2006 J. B. Corbett Communicating Nature iv. 97 Rotary dialing was a significant improvement over switchboards, and Touch-Tone was an even bigger improvement.

2. A tone used in the touch-tone system.

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1967 S. H. Fuller et al. Remote Credit Terminal in J. R. McIntyre et al. Credit Terminal Design Competition (Student Design Project, Univ. of Michigan) 92 (heading) Conversion of veritable data into touch tones.

1987 Star (Orland Park, Illinois) 15 Oct. a12/5 With the current version [of the program], your Mac must be equipped with a modem, but a new version..will use the Mac's internal speaker to generate touch tones for dialing the phone.

1991 Personal Computer World Feb. 320/2 Telephone hold systems should use the touch tones from your phone to allow you to select your choice of tune.

2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 15 Feb. (Arts & Leisure section) 24/4 The beat stays brisk and unpredictable; one track is built around booping touch tones and dial tones.

Compounds

touchtone phone n. = touchtone telephone n.

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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of

microtelephone1879

field telephone1880

telephone extension1881

pay telephone1886

home telephone1893

substation1897

extension1906

railophone1911

dial phone1917

payphone1919

dial telephone1921

autophone1922

mobile telephone1930

viewphone1932

videophone1944

mobile phone1945

car phone1946

video telephone1947

speaker-phone1955

picture telephone1956

princess phone1959

touchtone telephone1961

touch-tone1962

touchtone phone1963

picture phone1964

Trimphone1965

princess telephone1966

vision-telephone1966

visiophone1971

princess1973

warbler1973

landline1977

cardphone1978

feature phone1979

smartphone1980

mobile1982

cell phone1983

Vodafone1984

cellular1985

mobile device1989

brick1990

satphone1991

celly1992

burner phone1996

keitai1998

burner2002

1963 Indiana Bell News July 5/2 The equipment must be there before a single touch-tone phone can be sold.

1986 Pop. Mech. Dec. 138/1 (advt.) All you do is dial your security code on any TouchTone phone and you retrieve your messages.

2012 S. Bair Bull by Horns (2013) x. 124 I was on the phone in our upstairs bedroom when our discussion was interrupted by a click and then the sound of someone punching numbers into our touch tone phone.

touchtone telephone n. a push-button telephone.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of

microtelephone1879

field telephone1880

telephone extension1881

pay telephone1886

home telephone1893

substation1897

extension1906

railophone1911

dial phone1917

payphone1919

dial telephone1921

autophone1922

mobile telephone1930

viewphone1932

videophone1944

mobile phone1945

car phone1946

video telephone1947

speaker-phone1955

picture telephone1956

princess phone1959

touchtone telephone1961

touch-tone1962

touchtone phone1963

picture phone1964

Trimphone1965

princess telephone1966

vision-telephone1966

visiophone1971

princess1973

warbler1973

landline1977

cardphone1978

feature phone1979

smartphone1980

mobile1982

cell phone1983

Vodafone1984

cellular1985

mobile device1989

brick1990

satphone1991

celly1992

burner phone1996

keitai1998

burner2002

1961 A. W. Jones in Transportation Design Considerations (Transportation Res. Conf. National Acad. Sci. Aug. 1960) 51 Any scheme developed must be made to fit all existing systems where it might be applied. An example is the Touch-Tone telephone now being tried out in Hagerstown, Maryland and Roanoke, Virginia.

1973 Alton (Illinois) Tel. 4 Aug. b9/3 Customers of a Seattle bank with the help of 12-button Touch-Tone telephones now have access to a talking computer.

2008 S. Garrett Personal Finance Workbk. for Dummies xxii. 260 This service works just like an online bill-payment service, but you can use your touchtone telephone to authorize payments instead.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	touch-tone
释义	touch-toneadj.n. Brit. /ˈtʌtʃtəʊn/, U.S. /ˈtətʃˌtoʊn/ Forms: also with capital initials. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: touch n., tone n. Etymology: < touch n. + tone n. A. adj. Of, relating to, or utilizing a system of telephone dialling and signalling in which each digit and symbol is transmitted as a particular combination of audible tones, as generated by the keys of a push-button telephone; (also) designating this system. Chiefly in touchtone phone n., touchtone telephone n. at Compounds.The system, also called dual tone multi-frequency signalling, was first developed by AT&T as an alternative to the pulse dialling system employed by rotary telephones. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [adjective] > types of telephony radio-telephonic1908 dial-up1960 touch-tone1960 cellular1972 1960 Bell Telephone Mag. Winter 54/2 The first service offering of Touch-tone calling began in November. 1961 Republican-Courier (Findlay, Ohio) 31 Oct. 3/4 The M. and S. Telephone Answering Service..is in the process of installing the touch tone system. 1972 Sci. Amer. Sept. 112/3 The first telephone switching systems were actuated by human operators; today the job is done automatically by means of a dial or ‘Touch-Tone’ terminal on the user's telephone. 1990 Oskaloosa (Iowa) Herald 25 Apr. 2/5 The Iowa Utilities Board ruled the phone company must supply touch tone service to all of its 750,000 Iowa customers whether they want it or not. 2012 R. Pieraccini Voice in Machine viii. 217 Once you've made the call and the connection is established, you're free to send other touch-tone signals by again pressing keys on your keypad. B. n. 1. The touch-tone system (see sense A.). ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > types of telephonography1889 wireless telephony1899 radio-telephony1906 touch-tone1962 mobile telephony1965 POTS1970 society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of microtelephone1879 field telephone1880 telephone extension1881 pay telephone1886 home telephone1893 substation1897 extension1906 railophone1911 dial phone1917 payphone1919 dial telephone1921 autophone1922 mobile telephone1930 viewphone1932 videophone1944 mobile phone1945 car phone1946 video telephone1947 speaker-phone1955 picture telephone1956 princess phone1959 touchtone telephone1961 touch-tone1962 touchtone phone1963 picture phone1964 Trimphone1965 princess telephone1966 vision-telephone1966 visiophone1971 princess1973 warbler1973 landline1977 cardphone1978 feature phone1979 smartphone1980 mobile1982 cell phone1983 Vodafone1984 cellular1985 mobile device1989 brick1990 satphone1991 celly1992 burner phone1996 keitai1998 burner2002 1962 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 19 June tm122 American Telegraph and Telephone Company, New York... Touch-Tone. For providing telephone communication service. 1972 Times 26 Jan. 18/6 In North America, ‘Touch-Tone’ is the rule rather than the exception. 2006 J. B. Corbett Communicating Nature iv. 97 Rotary dialing was a significant improvement over switchboards, and Touch-Tone was an even bigger improvement. 2. A tone used in the touch-tone system. ΚΠ 1967 S. H. Fuller et al. Remote Credit Terminal in J. R. McIntyre et al. Credit Terminal Design Competition (Student Design Project, Univ. of Michigan) 92 (heading) Conversion of veritable data into touch tones. 1987 Star (Orland Park, Illinois) 15 Oct. a12/5 With the current version [of the program], your Mac must be equipped with a modem, but a new version..will use the Mac's internal speaker to generate touch tones for dialing the phone. 1991 Personal Computer World Feb. 320/2 Telephone hold systems should use the touch tones from your phone to allow you to select your choice of tune. 2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 15 Feb. (Arts & Leisure section) 24/4 The beat stays brisk and unpredictable; one track is built around booping touch tones and dial tones. Compounds touchtone phone n. = touchtone telephone n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of microtelephone1879 field telephone1880 telephone extension1881 pay telephone1886 home telephone1893 substation1897 extension1906 railophone1911 dial phone1917 payphone1919 dial telephone1921 autophone1922 mobile telephone1930 viewphone1932 videophone1944 mobile phone1945 car phone1946 video telephone1947 speaker-phone1955 picture telephone1956 princess phone1959 touchtone telephone1961 touch-tone1962 touchtone phone1963 picture phone1964 Trimphone1965 princess telephone1966 vision-telephone1966 visiophone1971 princess1973 warbler1973 landline1977 cardphone1978 feature phone1979 smartphone1980 mobile1982 cell phone1983 Vodafone1984 cellular1985 mobile device1989 brick1990 satphone1991 celly1992 burner phone1996 keitai1998 burner2002 1963 Indiana Bell News July 5/2 The equipment must be there before a single touch-tone phone can be sold. 1986 Pop. Mech. Dec. 138/1 (advt.) All you do is dial your security code on any TouchTone phone and you retrieve your messages. 2012 S. Bair Bull by Horns (2013) x. 124 I was on the phone in our upstairs bedroom when our discussion was interrupted by a click and then the sound of someone punching numbers into our touch tone phone. touchtone telephone n. a push-button telephone. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of microtelephone1879 field telephone1880 telephone extension1881 pay telephone1886 home telephone1893 substation1897 extension1906 railophone1911 dial phone1917 payphone1919 dial telephone1921 autophone1922 mobile telephone1930 viewphone1932 videophone1944 mobile phone1945 car phone1946 video telephone1947 speaker-phone1955 picture telephone1956 princess phone1959 touchtone telephone1961 touch-tone1962 touchtone phone1963 picture phone1964 Trimphone1965 princess telephone1966 vision-telephone1966 visiophone1971 princess1973 warbler1973 landline1977 cardphone1978 feature phone1979 smartphone1980 mobile1982 cell phone1983 Vodafone1984 cellular1985 mobile device1989 brick1990 satphone1991 celly1992 burner phone1996 keitai1998 burner2002 1961 A. W. Jones in Transportation Design Considerations (Transportation Res. Conf. National Acad. Sci. Aug. 1960) 51 Any scheme developed must be made to fit all existing systems where it might be applied. An example is the Touch-Tone telephone now being tried out in Hagerstown, Maryland and Roanoke, Virginia. 1973 Alton (Illinois) Tel. 4 Aug. b9/3 Customers of a Seattle bank with the help of 12-button Touch-Tone telephones now have access to a talking computer. 2008 S. Garrett Personal Finance Workbk. for Dummies xxii. 260 This service works just like an online bill-payment service, but you can use your touchtone telephone to authorize payments instead. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1960
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