dialing Meaning, Definition & Usage
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verb operate a dial to select a telephone number
dial.
- You must take the receiver off the hook before you dial
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verb choose by means of a dial
dial.
- dial a telephone number
WordNet
Di"al*ing noun
Definitions
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The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials. Written also dialling . -
A 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.