Crossword clues for dial
dial
- Timely face
- Time teller
- Thermostat feature
- Retro phone part
- Remote precursor
- Radio control
- Phone tone
- Passe phone part
- Oven knob
- Obsolete phone part
- It had all your telephone numbers
- Instrument panel sight
- Face of a clock
- Early phone feature
- Cut (back)
- Coast alternative
- Certain tone
- Bygone telephone part
- Brand of soap that asked, "Don't you wish everybody did?"
- Bath soap brand
- "--- M for Murder"
- ''___ M for Murder''
- ___-up (slow Internet connection)
- Zest rival
- Zest or Ivory alternative
- Zest competitor
- Word with butt or drunk
- Word engraved on some bars
- Word after sun or speed
- Word after speed or drunk
- Word after speed or butt
- What a cell lacks
- Watch feature
- Volume knob, e.g
- Volume controller
- Utility meter feature
- Use the telephone
- Use the horn
- Use a really old telephone
- Two-handed face
- TV fixture of old
- Turning tuner
- Turner on an amp
- Turner on a stereo
- Tune (in)
- Transistor radio feature
- Toaster turner
- Thing a host might warn you not to touch, after "that"
- Thermostat adjuster, often
- Television tuner of old
- Telephone feature of the '60s
- Tach face
- Station changer
- Start a phone call
- Start a call, anachronistically
- Speed __ (phone feature)
- Soap brand named for its "Round the Clock" protection
- Rotatable disk
- Roman numerals may be seen on one
- Retro calling aid
- Regulating gadget
- Radio's station changer
- Radio piece
- Radio gadget
- Quaint phone feature
- Push-button precursor
- Product offering "round the clock protection"
- Primitive timekeeper
- Phone, perhaps
- Phone, old-style
- People are told not to touch it
- Part of an instrument panel
- Part of a tachometer
- Part of a rotary phone
- Part of a radio
- Parent company of Armour and Renuzit
- Panel reading
- Oven control knob
- Oscilloscope knob
- Old-time telephone feature
- Old-style phone feature
- Old watch feature
- Old TV tuner
- Old TV control
- Old timepiece
- Old calling aid
- Numbered face
- Moving feature on an old phone
- Locker room lock feature
- Lifebuoy rival
- Keypad predecessor, in some cases
- Keypad predecessor
- Jargon: Abbr
- Item on an instrument panel
- It's on the radio
- Irish Spring competitor
- IPod controller
- Increase slowly, with "up"
- Henkel AG soap brand
- Hands go around it
- Former phone part
- Flat face with hands
- First antibacterial soap
- Feature of a rotary phone
- Face with numerals
- Face with digits
- Face on the wall
- Face on old watches
- Face of a gauge
- Erstwhile channel selector
- Drunk ___ (call smashed)
- Dashboard sight
- Console feature
- Combination lock spinner
- Classic phone feature
- Circular control
- Channel selector of old
- Channel selector
- Change channels
- Call, retro-style
- Call, formerly
- Call on a retro phone
- Call "0"
- Bygone TV part
- Big Ben feature
- Antibacterial soap brand
- Antibacterial brand since 1948
- Analog clock face
- Anachronistic (but still common) phone verb
- "Friends Don't Let Friends ___ Drunk" Plain White T's
- "Dont touch that ___!"
- "___ M for Murder."
- "___ M for . . . "
- '50s phone feature
- __-up: slow Web connection
- ___-up (slow Web connection method)
- ___ tone (sound on a landline phone)
- Telephone function Eddie resolved in half of Spalding
- 540-1600 on a radio
- Clock part
- Radio knob
- I-XII locale
- Lever 2000 competitor
- Watch face
- Tuner, sometimes
- Disappearing phone feature
- Ring up
- "___ M for Murder" (Hitchcock thriller)
- Phone feature, once
- Dove rival
- Control knob
- Clock face
- Call up, old-style
- Face of time?
- Obsolescent phone feature
- Radio feature
- Locker inset
- Use a rotary phone
- Dashboard item
- Radio tuner
- Combination lock feature
- Fine-tuner
- Retro phone feature
- Rotary telephone part
- Popular soap
- Radio part, perhaps
- Use an old phone
- Dove competitor
- Lock feature
- Oven feature
- "Don't touch that ___!"
- Gauge part
- Zest alternative
- Oven part
- Lifebuoy competitor
- Word after direct or drunk
- Ratchet (up)
- First antibacterial soap brand
- Speed ___
- Something people have often been told not to touch
- Part of a gauge
- Competitor of Ivory and Coast
- Face with numbers
- The face of a timepiece
- Graduated to show the hours
- The control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning
- The circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments
- A disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called
- Choose a channel
- Channel changer
- Laid back?
- Horologe face
- Use the phone
- Make a call
- What watch watchers watch
- Laid up?
- Push-button predecessor
- Old-fashioned phone feature
- ___ tone (sound on a phone)
- It's on the watch
- Numbered circle
- Push-button alternative
- Watch's face
- Part of a clock
- Channel control
- Switch TV channels
- Adjust the radio
- Kind of tone made by a phone
- Gauge face
- Rheostat's control
- Watch part
- Radio item
- Radio appurtenance
- Channel selector, once
- Tune in the TV
- Finger a phone
- TV turner
- Watch word
- Select a TV program
- TV adjunct
- Obsolescent phone part
- Decoder feature
- Call investigator a novice
- Select a telephone number
- Lad is drunk after Savoy's first quit for another label (the mug!)
- Help retired head of lyceum to make call
- Measuring device
- TV part
- Telephone part
- Old phone feature
- Use a phone
- Rotary phone feature
- TV knob
- Soap brand, or part of an old phone
- Clock feature
- Push button forerunner
- Old TV part
- Ivory alternative
- Use an old-fashioned phone
- Old timer
- Old radio feature
- Give a ring
- Dashboard feature
- Call, in a way
- Rotary phone part
- Part of an old phone
- Dashboard gauge
- Bygone telephone device
- Tuning knob
- Remote ancestor?
- Reduce, with "down"
- Place a call
- Phone part
- Face of a watch
- Dove alternative
- Analog watch feature
- Old TV feature
- Old telephone feature
- It takes turns
- Face with hands, maybe
- Dashboard instrument
- Bygone phone feature
- Scale (down)
- Outdated verb used with phones
- Old radio part
- Old phone part
- Obsolete phone feature
- Lessen, with "down"
- Ivory rival
- I-XII place, perhaps
- Feature of a rotary telephone
- Face on a wrist
- Combination lock part
- Where to see hands on a wrist
- Type of tone
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dial \Di"al\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dialedor Dialled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dialing or Dialling.]
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To measure with a dial.
Hours of that true time which is dialed in heaven.
--Talfourd. (Mining) To survey with a dial.
--Raymond.
Dial \Di"al\, n. [LL. dialis daily, fr. L. dies day. See Deity.]
An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical.
The graduated face of a timepiece, on which the time of day is shown by pointers or hands.
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A miner's compass.
Dial bird (Zo["o]l.), an Indian bird ( Copsychus saularius), allied to the European robin. The name is also given to other related species.
Dial lock, a lock provided with one or more plates having numbers or letters upon them. These plates must be adjusted in a certain determined way before the lock can be operated.
Dial plate, the plane or disk of a dial or timepiece on which lines and figures for indicating the time are placed.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "sundial," earlier "dial of a compass" (mid-14c.), apparently from Medieval Latin dialis "daily," from Latin dies "day" (see diurnal).\n
\nThe word perhaps was abstracted from a phrase such as Medieval Latin rota dialis "daily wheel," and evolved to mean any round plate over which something rotates. Telephone sense is from 1879, which led to dial tone (1921), "the signal to begin dialing," which term soon might be the sole relic of the rotary phone.
1650s, "to work with aid of a dial or compass," from dial (n.). Telephone sense is from 1923. Related: Dialed; dialing.
Wiktionary
n. 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 (context British dated English) A person's face. 7 A miner's compass. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To measure or indicate something with a dial. 2 (context transitive English) To control or select something with a dial 3 (context transitive English) To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone. 4 (context intransitive English) To use a dial or a telephone.
WordNet
n. the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours
the control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning
the circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments
a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called [syn: telephone dial]
Wikipedia
Dial may refer to:
A dial is generally a flat surface, circular or rectangular, with numbers or similar markings on it, used for displaying the setting or output of a timepiece, radio, clock, watch, or measuring instrument. There are many instruments used in scientific and industrial applications that use dials with pointers as indicators of a specific physical property. Typical examples include pressure and vacuum gauges, fluid-level gauges (for fuel, engine oil, and so on), voltmeters and ammeters, thermometers and hygrometers, speedometers and tachometers, and indicators (distance amplifying instruments).
Traditionally these have been mechanical devices, but with the advent of electronic displays, analog dials are often simulated from digital measurements.
The term may also refer to a movable control knob used to change the settings of the controlled instrument, for example, to change the frequency of the radio, or the desired temperature on a thermostat.
Styles of dials:
- Circular,
- Fixed pointer with moving scale,
- Fixed scale with moving dial.
Examples of dial usage:
- Pressure and vacuum gauges,
- Level gauges,
- Volt and current meters,
- Thermometers and thermostats (mechanical),
- Speedometers and tachometers.
Mirror dials are designed to reduce or eliminate the effect of parallax. They usually consist of a small mirrored strip running parallel to the graduations of the scale under the pointer. When the observer moves his position so that the pointer obscures the pointer's reflection in the mirror, an accurate reading may be taken.
Dial is a brand of hand soap and body wash. It was the world's first antibacterial soap. It is manufactured by the Henkel Corporation, an Arizona-based subsidiary of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Henkel Consumer Goods Inc).
Dial is a progressive rock band based in the Netherlands.
Dial is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Benjy Dial (1943–2001), American football player
- Buddy Dial (1937–2008), American football player
- Derrick Dial (born 1975), American basketball player
- Jeff Dial (born 1976), American politician
- Joe Dial (born 1962), American pole vaulter
- Nathaniel B. Dial (1862–1940), American politician
- Nikki Dial (born 1973), American actor
- Quinton Dial (born 1990), American football player
- Thornton Dial (1928–2016), American artist
Usage examples of "dial".
Among the molluscs and zoophytes, I found in the meshes of the net several species of alcyonarians, echini, hammers, spurs, dials, cerites, and hyalleae.
Abubekar was gazing at the same dial as Bahadur, their expressions identical masks of disbelief.
I stroked it with my ring finger, were each overlaid by the inventories of a benevolent technologythe moulded binnacle of the instrument dials, the jutting carapace of the steering column shroud, the extravagant pistol grip of the handbrake.
On it, bolted into place, was a combination lock panel, with three different rows of spin dials that could be set to different combinations.
Fortunately, Brye had not bothered to twist the dial to lock the combination.
Osterzeile and Westerzeile, and with its four dials beneath the green, bulbiform roof, provided the whole neighborhood, from Max-Halbe-Platz to the Catholic and clockless St.
His mouse was quiet I stood with my back to the Sistine color print, gazing either at the empty, slightly wobbling turntable, or out the mansard window, over the raw-red roof tiles, at Christ Church, one dial on the front, another on the east side of the bulbiform tower.
Walton selected a private room, lunched lightly on baked chlorella steak and filtered rum, and dialed a twelve-minute nap.
Farder Coram, watching from across the table, noted the places where the needle stopped, and watched the little girl holding her hair back from her face and biting her lower lip just a little, her eyes following the needle at first but then, when its path was settled, looking elsewhere on the dial.
He had one tentacle on the handle, one on the knob of the dial, and another near the dial, its sensitive fingerlets touching the rim where the numbers were engraved.
His weathered face framed by bulbous orange ear defenders that only partially blocked out the din of the jet engines, Ripley Forte squinted through the icy spray at the inertial-navigation dial on the control panel.
I clicked the dial past an endless array of gadgets like Veg-O-Matics and Ginzo knives and tummy-slimmers.
Little Infinity shot across the landscape, and Guz dialed in a destination.
This movement of the plate thus obtained, Harding could easily fasten to it a needle arranged on a dial, bearing the letters of the alphabet, and in this way communicate from one station to the other.
Talking with Grossman on the telephone, he had watched Hawes as he stepped swiftly to the wall and twisted the dial on the instrument.