verb🔗ShareTo control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial."President Trump has recently dialled down the rhetoric."technologycommunicationelectronicsdevicemachineChat 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."communicationtechnologyelectronicsmachineChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe act by which a number is dialed."The constant dialling of wrong numbers was frustrating and delayed our dinner order. "communicationtechnologyelectronicsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe art of constructing dials; the science of measuring time by dials."The professor's lecture on dialling covered the principles of sundial construction and their use in measuring time throughout history. "timesciencetechnologydeviceChat 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."After years of using traditional surveying techniques, the mining company invested in training for dialling, hoping to improve the accuracy of their tunnel mappings. "technicalgeologyscienceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
