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Dial   /dˈaɪəl/  /daɪl/   Listen
Dial

noun
1.
The face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours.
2.
The control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning.
3.
The circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments.
4.
A disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called.  Synonym: telephone dial.
verb
(past & past part. dialed or dialled; pres. part. dialing or dialling)
1.
Operate a dial to select a telephone number.
2.
Choose by means of a dial.



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"Dial" Quotes from Famous Books



... no thinking person, with the most casual interest in current social evils, could listen to the version of Richard Bennett, Wilton Lackaye, and their associates, without being gripped by the power of Brieux's message.—THE DIAL. ...
— Damaged Goods - A novelization of the play "Les Avaries" • Upton Sinclair

... shepherds mark The hour when, to the dial true, Cichorium to the towering lark, Lifts her ...
— The Folk-lore of Plants • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

... of the window as he had time for, and the antiquarians bless him to this day. Then he went off to the stables, and helped to get out his horses. My Lady Anne, who was only sixteen, saved her jewels and one or two of her more elaborate gowns, and then sat down by the sun-dial and cried. The servants worked furiously as long as the devouring flames allowed them, but when there was nothing left of Kencote Hall but smouldering, unsafe walls, under a black, winter sky, and the piled-up heap of ...
— The Squire's Daughter - Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons • Archibald Marshall

... pointing out of her gum, and her gaze was still full of sausage as she turned it upon me. I immediately lost all appetite, and a feeling of nausea came over me. When I reached the market-place I went to the fountain and drank a little. I looked up; the dial marked ten ...
— Hunger • Knut Hamsun

... flowers." We are apish in it, asini bipedes, and every place is full inversorum Apuleiorum of metamorphosed and two-legged asses, inversorum Silenorum, childish, pueri instar bimuli, tremula patris dormientis in ulna. Jovianus Pontanus, Antonio Dial, brings in some laughing at an old man, that by reason of his age was a little fond, but as he admonisheth there, Ne mireris mi hospes de hoc sene, marvel not at him only, for tota haec civitas delirium, all our town dotes in like ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior


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