Definition of Dial

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Definition of Dial

Dial

An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical.

The graduated face of a timepiece, on which the time of day is shown by pointers or hands.

A miner's compass.

To measure with a dial.

To survey with a dial.

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Dial Quotations

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Philip James Bailey

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.
Tommy Smothers

I've got 911 on speed dial.
Doug Coupland

When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling.
Mary Chapin Carpenter

The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
Bruce Jenner

Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.
Boz Scaggs

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.
Bradley Whitford

TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.
John C. McGinley

True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.
Barton Booth

Dial Translations

dial in Afrikaans is skyf, plaat
dial in Danish is skive
dial in Dutch is wijzerplaat
dial in Finnish is kiekko
dial in Italian is quadrante, numero, eleggere
dial in Portuguese is seletor
dial in Spanish is numero, marcar, dial
dial in Swedish is ringa, urtavla

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