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ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Name

Definition 1:
• A surname.
Noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪ.əl/

Definition 1:
• A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).
Example: The dial on the dashboard showed the car was nearly out of gas.

Definition 2:
• A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).
• Such a field as part of a clock face; (metonymic) the entire clock face.

Definition 3:
• A sundial.

Definition 4:
• A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.
Example: Turn the dial to Radio 4: my favourite show is on!

Definition 5:
• A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called.
Example: His hands were too fat to operate the dial on the telephone.

Definition 6:
• A person's face.
Labels: Australia, UK, slang

Definition 7:
• A miner's compass.
Verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪ.əl/

Definition 1:
• To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.
Example: The lead guitarist for the rock band Spinal Tap dialed his amplifier to 11.
Example: The president has recently dialled down the rhetoric.
Labels: transitive

Definition 2:
• To select a number on a telephone, regardless of a physical dial.
Example: In an emergency dial 999.
Labels: transitive

Definition 3:
• To call (a person or organization) using a telephone.
Labels: transitive

Definition 4:
• To use a dial or a telephone.
Example: Please be careful when dialling.
Labels: intransitive

Definition 5:
• To initiate a connection to a remote computer service such as a database.
Example: The application failed when attempting to dial the Postgres server, because there were too many open connections.
Labels: transitive

Definition 6:
• To use a dial-up modem to connect a personal computer to the Internet.
Example: I always check my guestbook when I dial, just in case anyone saw my Web site.
Labels: dated, intransitive

Source and attribution
Wiktionary contributors, via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Derived from Wiktionary; CC BY-SA and GFDL terms apply. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dial