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How to pronounce dial in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms telephone dial
Type of selector switch, selector
Type Words
Type of select, pick out, choose, take


dial a telephone number.
Type Words
Type of operate, control


You must take the receiver off the hook before you dial.
Type Words
Type of indicator
Type Words
Type of control, controller
Type Words
Type of face

Examples of dial

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Dial thermometers typically register to 212 degrees and are the least expensive.
From the freep.com
More than once, Norma recalls, she yearned to dial 911 when her partner hit her.
From the latimes.com
It was simple to adjust for height, angle, and dial in the power lumbar support.
From the theepochtimes.com
For example, you have to remember a phone number long enough for you to dial it.
From the sciencedaily.com
Instead, a pleasant, mechanized voice told her to please hang up and dial again.
From the washingtonpost.com
To compensate, Xcel scrambled to dial down some of its fossil-fuel power plants.
From the online.wsj.com
All the experience has given Montgomery an impressive set of speed-dial numbers.
From the businessweek.com
Most people accessed the Internet on dial-up and video wasn't yet common online.
From the omaha.com
You need a telephone dial pad, because sometimes you map the numbers to letters.
From the washingtonpost.com
More examples
  • Operate a dial to select a telephone number; "You must take the receiver off the hook before you dial"
  • The face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours
  • The control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning
  • The circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments
  • Dial is a progressive rock band based in the Netherlands.
  • A dial is generally a flat surface, circular or rectangular, with numbers or similar markings on it, used for displaying the setting or output of a timepiece, radio, clock, watch, or measuring instrument. See also "dial indicator".
  • The rotary dial is a device mounted on or in a telephone or switchboard that is designed to send interrupted electrical pulses, known as pulse dialing, corresponding to the number dialed. The early form of the rotary dial used lugs on a finger plate instead of holes. ...
  • The Dial Corporation is a maker of personal care and household cleaning products based in Scottsdale, Arizona. ...
  • The Dial was an American magazine published intermittently from 1840 to 1929. In its first form, from 1840 to 1844, it served as the chief publication of the Transcendentalists. In the 1880s it was revived as a political magazine. ...