dialling Meaning & Definition
What Does Dialling Mean?
As a verb, dialling means present participle and gerund of dial. As a noun, it means Alternative form of dialing. As a noun, it means The act by which a number is dialed.
Dialling Definition (Verb)
- present participle and gerund of dial
Dialling as a Noun
- Alternative form of dialing.
Verb
- To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.
President Trump has recently dialled down the rhetoric.
- To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.
In an emergency dial 999.
- To use a dial or a telephone.
Please be careful when dialling.
Noun
- The act by which a number is dialed.
- 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; the use of a miner's dial.
Synonyms of Dialling
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Dialling synonyms and antonyms →Dialling in a Sentence
President Trump has recently dialled down the rhetoric.
In an emergency dial 999.
Please be careful when dialling.
Word Forms & Grammar
dialling
dialling (countable and uncountable, plural diallings)