Dialing vs Dialed - What's the difference?
dialing | dialed |
The act by which a number is dialed.
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(archaic) The art of constructing dials; the science of measuring time by dials.
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.
(Webster 1913)
(dial)
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.
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.
As verbs the difference between dialing and dialed
is that dialing is while dialed is (dial).As a noun dialing
is the act by which a number is dialed.dialing
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Alternative forms
* diallingVerb
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