pound key

"If you would prefer to hold without music, press the pound key now."

He often requests people to press the pound key as a part of his disorder.

A few minutes later, the air crackled with the sound of pounded keys.

Then press the star or pound keys to hear more ads or make a call.

Reservations required: (212) 873-3400 (press 0, then the pound key).

And these poor technophobic social workers were pounding keys.

Arm's weak from pounding key, long hours, no rest, short rations, tired.

Pianists pounded keys in the chapel, in an upstairs cubbyhole and in the basement.

When opened, the top portion slides upwards, revealing the standard bell keypad (including numeric, star, and pound keys).

Just swipe your card through the card reader, enter your PIN then press the pound key.

His hands shook as he pounded keys; redirected his instru- ments toward the fraying fringes of the distortion.

Picking up the telephone handset and pressing the phone's pound key lets you see yourself on TV, the better to adjust the unit on its tilt-and-swivel base.

I hit the pound key twice to send the message, hung up, and grabbed what I needed for court, making a vow to myself as I ran out the door.

I had dialed the S-T-E-R when the machine cut in and told me to hit the pound key if I was trying to reach Yvonne Sterno.

You wield cream pies and water-squirting flowers against Sellbots, who can freeze your assets, and Cold Callers, who can attack you with the pound key.

From kissing hands to pounding keys: HENRY A. GRUNWALD has segued from ambassador to author.

Accordingly, heavy air attacks by American B-29's pounded key Japanese targets while units of the American and British Navies steamed often close inshore, bombarding coastline targets.

Throughout the run of the show, these touch-tone elements would appear in other segments, such as a caller hitting the pound key on their phone to stop a spinning wheel on a video monitor to try and win a prize.

In American and Canadian English, the symbol is usually called the pound sign (outside the US, this term often describes instead the British currency symbol "£"), and the telephone key is called the pound key.

Purim Celebration, Sunday from 10:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Children's Galleries for Jewish Culture, 515 West 20th Street, Suite 4E, Chelsea, (212) 924-4500, Ext. 1 (press the pound key after the number).

Rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot's 1989 single "Beepers", from his album Seminar, refers to this track; during a breakdown, a simulated SkyPager operator says "you wish to send message, 777-9311, enter numeric message or press the pound key now."

Weigman was on a party line when he held the star button and voice on the other end replied "Moderator On" and as he pressed the pound key, he gained access to the numbers of all the callers on the party line.

I laughed out loud for at least five minutes (I guess it was the nine cents that got to me) before realizing that the key below the pound key on my phone is the "R," for "redial last number," and that I had pushed it in error.