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Meaning dial meaning

What does dial mean?
Definitions in simple English

dial Verb

— To dial means to use a telephone to do a call. I picked up the phone to dial my boss.

dial

— verb operate a dial to select a telephone number You must take the receiver off the hook before you dial — noun the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours — noun a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called — noun the circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments — noun the control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning — verb choose by means of a dial dial a telephone number

Synonyms dial synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as dial?

dial English » English

record disc dial plate scale clock face telephone dial telephone ring phone indicator index dial face clock dial choose vote in turn think of sun-dial summon sort single out selector switch selector select screen scale disk rotate rotary dial readout reading device radius plot plate pick ordain opt name limbo limb invite indexing disc index plate horology horologium highlight hand hail graduated plate graduated dial front

DIAL English » English

differential absorption laser

Topics dial topics

What do people use dial to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Mass communication

Telephone
States Big

Measure

Conjugation dial conjugation

How do you conjugate dial?

dial · verb

Examples dial examples

How do I use dial in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Could you dial for me? The telephone is too high.
In case of an emergency, dial 110.
In case of fire, dial 119.
In the case of fire, dial 119.
Do I have to dial the area code, too?
Imogen of the Internet can connect to dial-up BBSes by whistling into a funnel attached to a phone line.
In case of fire, you should dial 119.
In case of fire, you should dial 119 immediately.
He turned the dial on the bicycle lock.
Do you remember that we had a phone with a rotary dial?
Dial it back, Tom.

Movie subtitles

Dial.
Who'd want to dial the sun?
I can count, read a watch and a blood-pressure dial.
I can dial telephones, I can drive a car, I can even put nickels in a jukebox.
Propeller noises coming in all around the dial, sir.
Why don't you look up the right number before you dial?
I shall dial the wrong number, this number.
Nearly a whole dial became active.
No matter what I dial, I get nothing but these idiotic sounds.
Now dial 1212.
Go on. Dial it.
It has a luminous dial. Very practical in a blackout.
Look. lt's easy to tell with the luminous dial.
See, I fitted this little piece of pencil lead under the dial and when your professor spun it it went around with the dial and made a mark each time.
I'll dial it for you.
Go to the nearest phone booth and invest a dime on the rest of your life. Dial Madison 60025.
Shouldn't you dial?
All you have to do is turn that dial. and you have all the company you want right there on the screen.
Nearly a whole dial became active when your ship first approached from deep space.
Dial the number.
I'll dial them for you. No, wait a minute.
Dial 14 and ask for the operator.
May I trouble you, Henri? Dial 3, draw 12.
How I undermine dial readers, telling them to fly by the seats of their pants.
Dial Madison 60025.
Now dial one-two-one-two.
You have only to twist the dial once.
It's Barbara's travel dial.
I can't dial.

News and current affairs

The historic influx of new entrants into the global work force, each aspiring to Western consumption standards, is simply pushing global growth past the safety marker on the speed dial.
This opens up a new policy option for the West: impelling North Korea to dial back its foreign and security policy by deepening its economic and social engagement with the rest of the world.

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