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• dialling tone — or (N American) dial tone noun The continuous sound heard on picking up a telephone receiver which indicates that the equipment is functioning and ready to accept an input telephone number • • • Main Entry: ↑dial * * * dialling tone UK [ˈdaɪəlɪŋ… …   Useful english dictionary

• dialling code — UK US noun [C] (also dial code) ► COMMUNICATIONS a series of numbers used before the main phone number when you phone someone outside your own town, area, or country: »The international dialling code for China is +86 …   Financial and business terms

• dialling tone — UK US noun [C] UK (US dial tone) ► COMMUNICATIONS the sound that you hear on a phone when you pick it up, before calling a number: »She lifted the receiver and heard the dialling tone. → Compare RINGTONE(Cf. ↑ringtone) …   Financial and business terms

• dialling tone — dialling tones N COUNT The dialling tone is the noise which you hear when you pick up a telephone receiver and which means that you can dial the number you want. [BRIT] (in AM, use dial tone) …   English dictionary

• dialling tone — n BrE the sound you hear when you pick up the telephone that lets you know that you can make a call American Equivalent: dial tone …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• dialling tone — UK [ˈdaɪəlɪŋ ˌtəʊn] / US [ˈdaɪəlɪŋ ˌtoʊn] noun [countable] Word forms dialling tone : singular dialling tone plural dialling tones British the sound that a telephone makes when you pick it up to show that you can make a call …   English dictionary

• dialling tone — noun (C) BrE the sound you hear when you pick up the telephone that lets you know that you can make a call; dial tone AmE …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• dialling tone — [ˈdaɪəlɪŋ ˌtəʊn] noun [C] British the sound that a telephone makes when you pick it up …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• Former Australian dialling codes — Introduction of Area Codes (pre 1990s)= The introduction of subscriber trunk dialling was slow, partly because of the distances of exchanges in some areas and partly due to the use of manual exchanges well into the 1980s. Initially, area codes… …   Wikipedia

• Subscriber trunk dialling — (STD, also known as subscriber toll dialling) is a term for the UK telephone system allowing subscribers to dial trunk calls without operator assistance. Terminology The term subscriber trunk dialling is used in other countries such as the… …   Wikipedia

• All figure dialling — refers to the change in the UK telephone numbering plan in 1966when the three digit numbers for local telephone exchanges began to be assigned without reference to any correspondence to the letters on the telephone dial. Similar changes have… …   Wikipedia