Definizione monolingua

dial

dial (third-person singular simple present dials, present participle dialing or dialling, simple past and past participle dialed or dialled)

1. (transitive) To measure or indicate something with a dial.
2. (transitive) To control or select something with a dial
3. (transitive) To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.
4. (intransitive) To use a dial or a telephone.

dial (plural dials)

1. A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).
2. A clock face.
3. A sundial.
4. A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.
5. A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called.
6. (UK) (old-fashioned) A persons face.
   • 1960: At the sound of the old familiar voice he spun around with something of the agility of a cat on hot bricks, and I saw that his dial, usually cheerful, was contorted with anguish, as if he had swallowed a bad oyster. (P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IX)

Definizione dizionario dial

	chiamare
	To enter numbers on a telephone or mobile device in order to make a phone call.

bussola

comporre

disco

disco combinatore

eleggere

formare

ghiera

meridiana

numero

quadrante

scala numerica

sintonizzare

Altri significati:

(intransitive) To use a dial or a telephone.

To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone

(transitive) To control or select something with a dial

dial (i.e. labelled face of a timepiece or other measuring device)

(UK) ( '''old-fashioned''' ) A person's face.

A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).

(transitive) To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.

To measure or indicate something with a dial

sundial

A round disk with numbers of 0 to 9 that is used to dial the phone number at old telephones

disk with finger holes on a telephone

A sundial.

A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.

clock face

graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves

A clock face.

To select a number on a telephone.

(transitive) To measure or indicate something with a dial.

A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called.