Dial and Tone

Dial

Dial verb - To make a telephone call to.

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Tone and dial are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tone" instead a verb "Dial".

Nearby Words: dialed, dialled, dialing, dialling, dialler

Tone verb - Vary the pitch of one's speech.

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Dial and tone are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dial" instead a verb "Tone".

Nearby Words: toneless, toned, toning, tonal

bit

dial bit

tone bit

Especially justified since the song was about cybersex and invokes the dial-up tone.

Source: Auto-Tune
Lighter and Softer: The art style initially got a lot of flack from the Fan Dumb for this reason, and the overall tone does dial back from that of the preceding 3D game, Majora's Mask.

Source: Videogame / The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Every once in a while on Negativland's "Over the Edge" weekly show on KPFA, this gets played on a DTMF tone generator (a device that creates the sounds heard on telephone touch-tone dial pads).

Source: Mocking Sing-Song

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