ringing tone

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ringing tone

n
(Telecommunications) Brit a sequence of pairs of tones heard by the dialler on a telephone when the number dialled is ringing. Compare engaged tone, dialling tone
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ringing tone

n (Brit) (Telec) → segnale m di libero
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Frederic Larsan!" replied Rouletabille in a ringing tone. "Frederic Larsan is the murderer!"
I snatched the arrow out of her hand then and ridiculously pressed it to my breast; but as I opened my lips she who knew what was struggling for utterance in my heart cried in a ringing tone:
"Not bound to endure insults," Dolokhov concluded in loud, ringing tones.
She had heard it before when the voice of her great-grandsire, Tardos Mors, Jeddak of Helium, had risen in command; and in the voice of her grandfather, Mors Kajak, the jed; and in the ringing tones of her illustrious sire, John Carter, Warlord of Barsoom, when he addressed his warriors.
He contrasted their behaviour with little Emmy's --their shrill voices with her tender ringing tones; their attitudes and their elbows and their starch, with her humble soft movements and modest graces.
Hugh Dunleavy, a Malaysia Airlines official, told families that the airline had tried calling the phones of crew members on the plane and similarly reached a ringing tone, indicating the phones were still connected.
Users of the WiderThan RBT service will be able to personalise the ringing tone heard by those calling them, with personal messages, music, humour or other audio clips.
His firm and Japan Acoustic Lab, run by acoustics expert Matsumi Suzuki and known for authenticating voice recordings such as those of Osama bin Laden, set up a virtual company called Japan Ringing Tone Laboratory to analyze pictures of people of the past and, so to speak, re-voice the dead.
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NOF, the Norwegian Ornithology society, is to offer bird song as a ringing tone for mobile phones.
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