dialing Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb operate a dial to select a telephone number
    dial.
    • You must take the receiver off the hook before you dial
  2. verb choose by means of a dial
    dial.
    • dial a telephone number

WordNet


Di"al*ing noun
Definitions
  1. The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials. Written also dialling.
  2. 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.

Webster 1913