dialing
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To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.
“President Trump has recently dialled down the rhetoric.”
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To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.
“In an emergency dial 999.”
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To use a dial or a telephone.
“Please be careful when dialling.”
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The act by which a number is dialed.
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The art of constructing dials; the science of measuring time by dials.
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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; the use of a miner's dial.
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