Dial vs Undialable - What's the difference?
dial | undialable |
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.
Unable to be reached by dialing
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 11, author=, title=Victoria bushfire missing - search on our message board, work=Herald Sun
, passage=I am from the UK and unfortunately the help and info lines are undialable from this country so I have no way of finding out if my uncle, aunt and cousin are still alive or where they might be. }}
As a noun dial
is a graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).As a verb dial
is to measure or indicate something with a dial.As an adjective undialable is
unable to be reached by dialing.dial
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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 * redialAnagrams
* * ----undialable
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