1. Operate a dial to select a telephone number
   "You must take the receiver off the hook before you dial" 
2. Choose by means of a dial
   "dial a telephone number"

1. The face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours 
2. The control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning 
3. The circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments 
4. A disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called
   - telephone dial

Derived forms: dials, dialling, dialled, dialing, dialed

Type of: choose, control, controller, face, indicator, operate, pick out, select, selector, selector switch, take

Part of: dial phone, dial telephone, horologe, timekeeper, timepiece

Encyclopedia: Dial

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