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Dial logo #10101) Analog watch feature 2) Before touch-tone 3) Big Ben feature 4) British slang for the face 5) Bygone telephone device 6) Bygone TV part 7) Call 8) Call 0 9) Call 867-5309 10) Call on a retro phone 11) Call on the phone 12) Call on the telephone 13) Call up 14) Call up, old-style 15) Call up, the old way
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Dial logo #10101) Bar soap 2) Call 3) Knob 4) Makeacall 5) Phone 6) Pointer 7) Regulator
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dial logo #10444
  1. the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours
  2. the control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning
  3. the circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments
  4. a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called

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Dial logo #21000[measurement] A dial is generally a flat surface, circular or rectangular, with numbers or similar markings on it, used for displaying the setting or output of a timepiece, radio, clock, watch, or measuring instrument. There are many instruments used in scientific and industrial applications that use dials with pointers as indicators of a s...
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Dial logo #21002• (v. t.) To survey with a dial. • (n.) The graduated face of a timepiece, on which the time of day is shown by pointers or hands. • (n.) A miner`s compass. • (n.) 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...
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dial logo #21358The 'face' of a clock or watch on which the time, calendar or astronomical information is registered.
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dial logo #21142part of the indicating device carrying the scale or scales NOTE - In general the dial also carries other information characterizing the instrument.
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dial logo #21142an apparatus in an automatic telephone set in which each single digit of the telephone number is initiated manually
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Dial logo #20450The ‘face` of a clock or watch.   The familiar white or cream enamel dial began to appear at the end of the 17th century, although gold or silver dials with various forms of decoration have never quite gone out of use.
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Dial logo #20450clearance between second and minute hands.   Such dials are rare until about 1810, although there is an example by Tompion dating from the 1680s.
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dial logo #209731. 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; especially, 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. ... 2. The graduated face of a timepie...
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dial logo #10444The 'face' of a clock or watch on which the time, calendar or astronomical information is registered. The term can refer to the whole face or to the individual discs or rings, such as the calendar dial, on which the periods of time are inscribed. Dials first appeared c. 1350. Previously, hours were recorded by a single strike of a bell. A dial plat …...
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Dial logo #20972Di'al noun [ Late Latin dialis daily, from Latin dies day. See Deity .] 1. 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 st...
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Dial logo #20972Di'al transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Dialed or Dialled ; present participle & verbal noun Dialing or Dialling .] 1. To measure with a dial. « Hours of that true time which is dialed in ...
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dial logo #21219Type: Term Pronunciation: dī′ăl Definitions: 1. A clock face or instrument resembling a clock face.
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Dial logo #21217Dial is British slang for the face.
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dial logo #22109The visible surface of a watch that lies below its crystal and on top of its mechanism, usually inscribed with markings used to tell the time. Also known as face
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dial logo #20400[n] - the control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning 2. [n] - the circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments 3. [n] - a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called 4. [n] - the face of a timepiece 5. [v] - operate a dial to select a telephone number 6. [v]
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dial logo #21009dial An instrument serving to tell the hour of the day, by means of the sun's shadow upon a graduated surface; a sun-dial.
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dial logo #23421[Othello] (176) a full twelve hours on the face of a clock.
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DIAL logo #20002acronym: Differential Absorption Lidar
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dial logo #20974 noun a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called
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dial logo #20974 noun the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours
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