verb🔗ShareTo control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial."President Trump has recently dialled down the rhetoric."technologycommunicationelectronicsmachinedeviceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone."In an emergency dial 999."communicationtechnologyelectronicsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo use a dial or a telephone."Please be careful when dialling."communicationtechnologyelectronicsdeviceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe act by which a number is dialed."The loud dialing from the payphone echoed through the bus station. "communicationtechnologydevicenumberChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe art of constructing dials; the science of measuring time by dials."The historical society meeting focused on dialing, discussing the design and mathematical principles behind sundials found in the town's oldest gardens. "timesciencetechnologyastronomymathphysicsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA 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; the use of a miner's dial."The old mine surveyor relied on dialing to map the intricate network of tunnels deep underground. "technicalsciencegeologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
