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A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).
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A clock face.
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A sundial.
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A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.
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A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called.
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A person's face.
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A miner's compass.
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To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.
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President Trump has recently dialled down the rhetoric.
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To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.
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In an emergency dial 999.
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To use a dial or a telephone.
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Please be careful when dialling.
The receiver clicked and the dial tone buzzed.
She hit the speed dial button.
In this form, which is found in British field artillery, the goniometric or dial sight is used for picking up the line of fire.
There followed silence, then a dial tone.
A dial tone followed.
I was listening to a dial tone.
As Martha said, I'm able to dial in settings that affect time and a location.
Then Dean was listening to a dial tone.
Fred switched the dial to a local talk show.
There followed a long pause, followed by an abrupt thank-you and a dial tone.
The effective number of turns in the coil surrounding the test rod can be varied by means of three dial switches (for hundreds, tens and units), which also introduce compensating resistances as the number of effective turns in the coil is reduced, thus keeping the total resistance of the circuit constant.
The dial between 30 and 32 indicates the screen in use.
He was a founder and a chief supporter of the magazine, the Dial, which was the organ of the school from 1841 to 1844.
She rubbed her eyes and tilted her watch crystal around until the light reflected enough to read the dial.
The sleeve of the pinion which carries M also carries the dial finger, and if the dial is properly graduated its finger will indicate the weight.
Date window at the 6 position adding tot the perfect dial balance.
Subsequently, in conjunction with Wheatstone, he introduced another form, in which five vertical index needles, each worked by a separate multiplier, were made to point out the letters on a dial.
In the navy one of the first essentials is rapidity of fire; to attain this the duties of laying are subdivided; one man laying for elevation, elevating and firing, a second laying for line and traversing, and a third putting on the elevation ordered or communicated by electric dial.
To facilitate the setting of the range the ranges are shown on a dial which can be read from the side of the mounting, from where also the sight can be set.
An index resembling the hand of a watch partakes of this motion, and points successively to the divisions of a graduated dial.
The motion of the fork is maintained by the clock acting through an escapement, and the dial registers both the number Koenig's of vibrations of the fork and the seconds, minutes and Tuning-fork hours.
The eye end presents an refractor appearance too complicated to be figured here; it has a micrometer and its illumination for the position circle, a micrometer head, and a bright or dark field, clamps in right ascension and declination and quick and slow motion in the same, a finder, microscopes for reading the hour and declination circles, an illuminated dial showing sidereal time and driven by an electric current from the sidereal clock, and counter weights which can be removed when a spectroscope or other heavy appliance is added.
Since so small a weight as a penny has to move the lever, J, together with the dial finger, &c., it is evident that the workmanship must be good and the friction kept very low by means of friction wheels.
The gauge has a plain dial, marked off to indications given by the application of standard tons and cwts.; it could probably be read to about 2% of the load weighed.
For the sake of compactness and convenience of reading the extension of the springs, and consequently the load, is frequently indicated on a dial, by means of a small rack and pinion, which give motion to a finger on the dial-plate, but the regularity and correctness of the indications of the finger will depend upon the condition of the rackwork and upon the friction, and these will vary with the wear of the machine.
The same vertical movement also actuates the index finger of a large dial, on which the weight of their luggage can be easily read by passengers standing near while their luggage is being weighed.
In 1840 the club began to issue an official organ, The Dial, and the settlement of Brook Farm followed in 1841.
Made from polished aluminum, the dial features silver numerals on a blue face.
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It has an internal fixed bezel giving a two tier effect to the dial.
Sixty minute markers printed on angled fixed internal bezel giving a three dimensional effect to the dial.
After removal of the aluminum bezel the ' glass ' will fall out revealing the dial face and needle.
It has military markings on the dial to indicate this including the broad arrow which denotes HM Government property.
Offers the first twin dial in a compact digital camera.
Mat black dial with superbly contrasting red sweep chronograph hand.
The dial markings indicate that the watch is an officially certified Swiss chronometer.
Dial Tone detection circuitry on some modems is also quite fussy.
I also like the rotating dial for the volume control.
The Deluxe Vari kennel has rotary dial latches for easier assembly, rotary door locks for easier latching and wire doors finished in black.
Superb polished black dial with polished silver sub dials.
It is an attractive design with easy to see legible dial.
To dial from outside the UK, dial +44 1865.
It's about a 9 hour download on a 56k dial up modem on a good day.
Nice looking watch with sub seconds dial at the 9 position.
A laurel wreath mount drapes around the white enamel dial with foliate bezel.
Lift the handset and you should hear a dial tone.
I could get a dial tone, but the calls were dropped each and every time.
If you still have no dial tone, please contact BT Residential on 0800 800 151 and report the fault.
An ivory diptych dial made in Nuremberg by Johann Gebhart in 1556.
Turn the dial in a clockwise direction to its full extent.
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