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Dial vs Trimphone - What's the difference?

dial | trimphone |

As nouns the difference between dial and trimphone

is that dial is a graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed) while trimphone is (uk) a luxury telephone of the 1960s with a then-innovative electronic ringer and illuminated dial.

As a verb dial

is to measure or indicate something with a dial.

dial

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).
  • A clock face.
  • A sundial.
  • A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.
  • A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called.
  • (British, dated) A person's face.
  • * 1960:' ''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.'' (, ''(Jeeves in the Offing) , chapter IX)
  • A miner's compass.

    • Verb

  • To measure or indicate something with a dial.
  • To control or select something with a dial
  • To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.
  • To use a dial or a telephone.

    • Usage notes

    * (term) and (term) are more common in the US. (term) and (term) are more common in the UK.

    Derived terms

    * dial-in * dial in * dial-up * dialer (US) * dial tone * misdial * redial

    Anagrams

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    trimphone

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK) A luxury telephone of the 1960s with a then-innovative electronic ringer and illuminated dial.
  • * 1983 , New Scientist (volume 98, number 1353, 14 April 1983)
    • Song thrushes normally have a large song repertoire, and Slater suggests that the trimphone sound has been taken up because it is sufficiently similar to the normal songs to be learned and imitated
  • * 1986 , Barry Strickland-Hodge, Barbara Allan, Medical information: a profile (page 54)
    • While an acoustic coupler can be used with ordinary telephones, it cannot be used with modern trimphones