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dialing

noun · verb · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • CMU ARPABET: D AY1 AH0 L IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: D AY1 L IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The act by which a number is dialed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

noun

Meaning 2

The art of constructing dials.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic

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3

noun

Meaning 3

The science of measuring time by use of a dial.

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4

noun

Meaning 4

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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5

verb

Meaning 5

present participle and gerund of dial

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present

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History

Etymology

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Real reading context

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