Meaning of Dial | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).
3. Such a field as part of a clock face; (metonymic) the entire clock face.
4. A sundial.
5. A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.
6. A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called.
7. A person's face.
   Australia, UK, slang
8. A miner's compass.

Equivalents

Examples

“Holonyms: (often holonymous) instrument, gauge”

“The dial on the dashboard showed the car was nearly out of gas.”

“Turn the dial to Radio 4: my favourite show is on!”

“His hands were too fat to operate the dial on the telephone.”

““Well, all I can say is that if yer don't take yer dial outer the road I'll bloomin' well take an' bounce a gibber off yer crust.””

“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.”

“Old Mona Lisa would have looked like a sour lemon beside Angel Day on the rare days she put a smile on her dial, laughing with her friends when some new man was in town.”

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