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dialing

The correct spelling is dialing.

How to pronounce dialing

verb

Say it like: Dia-lin-g

The correct spelling is dialing. To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial. For example: "President Trump has recently dialled down the rhetoric."

Usage Examples

President Trump has recently dialled down the rhetoric.

In an emergency dial 999.

Please be careful when dialling.

Meanings

verb

  1. 1.To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.
  2. 2.To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.
  3. 3.To use a dial or a telephone.

noun

  1. 1.The act by which a number is dialed.
  2. 2.The art of constructing dials; the science of measuring time by dials.
  3. 3.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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