the process or action of operating a dial on a telephone in order to establish a connection
one-touch dialling
hands-free dialling
Examples of 'dialling' in a sentence
dialling
It sits alongside this notion of sometimes dialling up or dialling down your career.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
They soon pick up dialling by comparing written numbers with those on the phone and they are adept at getting help.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
All related terms of 'dialling'
dial
A dial is the part of a machine or instrument such as a clock or watch which shows you the time or a measurement that has been recorded.
misdial
the act of dialling a telephone number incorrectly
dialling code
A dialling code for a particular city or region is the series of numbers that you have to dial before a particular telephone number if you are making a call to that place from a different area.
dialling tone
The dialling tone is the noise which you hear when you pick up a telephone receiver and which means that you can dial the number you want .
direct dialling
a service which allows telephone users to make international calls without operator assistance
drunk dialling
the practice of making a phone call while drunk, esp to someone about whom one has romantic notions
dial up
to increase or become increased
dial down
to reduce or become reduced
subscriber trunk dialling
a service by which telephone subscribers can obtain trunk calls by dialling direct without the aid of an operator
dial code
a sequence of numbers which are dialled for connection with another exchange before an individual subscriber's telephone number is dialled
speed dial
Speed dial is a facility on a phone that allows you to call a number by pressing a single button rather than by dialling the full number.