Crossword clues for dialing
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.
Dialing \Di"al*ing\, n.
The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials. [Written also dialling.]
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.
Wiktionary
alt. (present participle of dial English) n. The act by which a number is dialed. vb. (present participle of dial English)
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "dialing".
The monitor glowed to life and Antatolia maneuvered the micropipette over the first tube, dialing the vacuum tube down into the fluid.
He hesitated, almost calling the Oakwood Arms anyway, but finally dialing a different number.
You put the VIRUS program into it and it starts dialing phone numbers at random until it connects to another computer with an auto-dial.
They had Shimmer, Ptah, Peg, Siss, Wubwub, a new one that looked like a man-sized bird and -- dialing up the magnification a bit more -- Yoke could even see that one of the Cappy Jane birds was holding the little beetle Josef.
The first is that the national pencils disperse in a radial pattern, each dialing his cellphone, and the network field producers all come barreling out of the theater doors pulling their cellphone antennas out with their teeth, and everybody tries to find an empty 4-ft2to Waltz in while they call the gist of this riveting Negativity-related development in to networks and editors and try to raise their counterparts in the Bush2000 press corps to see if they can get a React from the Shrub on Mrs.
In an even weaker moment, I considered dialing the nuntber of every hotel in Paris-but experience had taught me Dane Blackmoor wouldn't be easy to find.
I opened the directory and began going down the line, dialing long-distance area codes, then the number scratched into the woodwork.
As he began dialing the number at the head of the High Commissioner's writing paper, a booking clerk announced that all remaining passengers should take their seats, as the gates were about to close.
He had been assured that anyone dialing that number in the Thirties would get only a busy signal or a sound of endless ringing.
Anna hoped she was just making sure there were no words left on the time delay and not dialing her cell phone to call the men with the butterfly nets to catch her mad sibling.
He looked over at Mary Deegan and said, 'Mary, you got direct distance dialing here?
Golovko shook his head and opened his last folder of the day, scanning first of all the executive summary--- and his mind skidded to an almost instant halt, his hand reaching for a phone and dialing a number.
Golovko shook his head and opened his last folder of the day, scanning first of all the executive summary -- and his mind skidded to an almost instant halt, his hand reaching for a phone and dialing a number.
She suspects I am dialing up porn off the Internet, which would be a fireable offense.
Dial, watch the scene flick over, look around while inserting a coin and dialing.