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BUSY TONE

Specialty Definition: BUSY TONE

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Post & Telecom

An audible signal given to a calling party to indicate that the required circuit or the intermediate apparatus used in setting up the connection is busy. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: BUSY TONE

Specialty definitions using "BUSY TONE": audible signalsprogress tones. (references)

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Expression: BUSY TONE

Expression using "BUSY TONE": line busy tone. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BUSY TONE

Language Translations for "BUSY TONE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

optagettone (engaged tone). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bezettoon (engaged tone), congestietoon (all trunks busy signal, ATB signal, channel-busy tone, congestion tone, engaged tone, reorder signal). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

varattu-ääni (busy signal, busy-flash signal, engaged signal, engaged tone, number unobtainable, telephone busy signal). (various references)

   

French

  

tonalité d'occupation. (various references)

   

German

  

besetztzeichen (engaged signal), Besetztton (engaged tone, number unobtainable). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σήμα κατειλημμένο (engaged tone), τόνος κατειλημμένου (engaged tone). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tono d'occupato (engaged tone), tono di occupato (engaged tone). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

usybay onetay

   

Portuguese

  

tonalidade de ocupação (engaged tone), sinal de ocupado (busy signal, busy-flash signal, engaged signal, engaged tone, telephone busy signal). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tono de ocupado (engaged tone), señal de comunicando (engaged tone). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

upptagetton (engaged tone). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BUSY TONE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-n-o-s-t-u-y"

-1 letter: subtone.

-2 letters: betons, betony, bounty, buteos, obtuse, outbye, snouty, stoney, subnet.

-3 letters: bents, besot, beton, bones, boney, bonus, bosun, bouse, bousy, bouts, bunts, buoys, busty, buteo, butes, bytes, ebons, ebony, nosey, notes, nutsy, obeys, onset, outby, seton, snout, steno, stone, stony, suety, tones, toney, tonus, touse, tubes, tunes, tynes, unset, youse.

-4 letters: bens, bent.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-n-o-s-t-u-y"
 

+2 letters: keybuttons, nebulosity, subpotency.

 

+3 letters: bounteously, isobutylene.

 

+4 letters: bellybuttons, isobutylenes, questionably.

 

+5 letters: subemployment, subordinately, subventionary, unobtrusively.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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