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di⋅al

  [dahy-uhl, dahyl] noun, verb, di⋅aled, di⋅al⋅ing or (especially British) di⋅alled, di⋅al⋅ling, adjective
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–noun
1. a plate, disk, face, or other surface containing markings or figures upon which the time of day is indicated by hands, pointers, or shadows, as of a clock or sundial.
2. a plate or disk with markings or figures for indicating or registering some measurement or number, as of pressure, number of revolutions, the frequency to which a radio is tuned, etc., usually by means of a pointer.
3. a rotatable plate, disk, or knob used for regulating a mechanism, making and breaking electrical connections, etc., as in tuning a radio or television station in or out.
4. Also called rotary dial. a rotatable plate or disk on a telephone, fitted with finger holes that are marked with letters or numbers, used in making calls through an automatic switchboard.
5. any mechanism on the face of a telephone by which the caller places a call, as push buttons.
6. Also called miner's dial. Mining. a compass used for underground surveying.
–verb (used with object)
7. to indicate or register on or as if on a dial.
8. to measure with or as if with a dial.
9. to regulate, select, or tune in by means of a dial, as on a radio: to dial my favorite program.
10. to make a telephone call to: Dial me at home.
–verb (used without object)
11. to use a telephone dial; to dial a telephone: I keep dialing, but the line seems dead.
12. to tune in or regulate by means of a dial: to dial into the opera broadcast.
–adjective
13. (of a telephone) having a rotary dial mechanism.
—Verb phrase
14. dial up, to obtain, reach, or contact by telephone: to dial up stock-market information; to dial up Chicago and do some business.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME: instrument for telling time by the sun's shadow, presumably < ML diālis daily (L di(ēs) day + -ālis -al 1 )
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di·al   (dī'əl, dīl)   
n.  
  1. A graduated surface or face on which a measurement, such as speed, is indicated by a moving needle or pointer.
    1. The face of a clock.
    2. A sundial.
    3. The panel or face on a radio or television receiver on which the frequencies or channels are indicated.
    4. A movable control knob or other device on a radio or television receiver used to change the frequency.
    1. The panel or face on a radio or television receiver on which the frequencies or channels are indicated.
    2. A movable control knob or other device on a radio or television receiver used to change the frequency.
  4. A rotatable disk on a telephone with numbers and letters, used to signal the number to which a call is made.
v.   di·aled or di·alled, di·al·ing or di·al·ling, di·als

v.   tr.
  1. To measure with or as if with a dial.
  2. To point to, indicate, or register by means of a dial.
  3. To control or select by means of a dial: dial a radio station.
  4. To call (a party) on a telephone.
  5. To signal (a number) in making a telephone call: The program dials the number and then connects to the file server.
v.   intr.
  1. To use a dial.
  2. To use a telephone.

[Middle English, sundial, clock, from Old French dyal, from Medieval Latin diāle, from neuter of diālis, daily, from Latin diēs, day; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots.]
di'al·er n.
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Dialing

Di"al*ing\, n. 1. The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials. [Written also dialling.]

2. A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor.
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