dial
English
editEtymology
editThe original meaning was 'sundial' and/or 'clock dial'; from Middle English diall, from Middle French dyal, from Latin diālis (“daily, concerning the day”), because of its use in telling the time of day, from Latin diēs (“day”). Compare Spanish dial and día (“day”).
Pronunciation
edit- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈdaɪ.əl/, [ˈdaɪ.əɫ]
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪəl
- Hyphenation: di‧al
Noun
editdial (plural dials)
- A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).
- The dial on the dashboard showed the car was nearly out of gas.
- 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.
- Turn the dial to Radio 4: my favourite show is on!
- A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called.
- His hands were too fat to operate the dial on the telephone.
- (UK, Australia, slang) A person's face. [from 19th c.]
- 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 90:
- “Well, all I can say is that if yer don't take yer dial outer the road I'll bloomin' well take an' bounce a gibber off yer crust.”
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter IX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- 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.
- 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 137:
- Old Mona Lisa would have looked like a sour lemon beside Angel Day on the rare days she put a smile on her dial, laughing with her friends when some new man was in town.
- A miner's compass.
Translations
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Verb
editdial (third-person singular simple present dials, present participle (US) dialing or dialling, simple past and past participle (US) dialed or dialled)
- (transitive) To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.
- The president has recently dialled down the rhetoric.
- (transitive) To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.
- In an emergency dial 999.
- (intransitive) To use a dial or a telephone.
- Please be careful when dialling.
Usage notes
edit- The spellings dialing and dialed are more common in the US. Dialling and dialled are more common elsewhere.
Derived terms
edit- autodial
- butt dial
- compass dial
- dead dial
- dialable
- dial-a-joke
- dial-a-ride
- dial-a-ride problem
- dial-around
- dial-a-yield
- dial back
- dial down
- dial down a notch
- dialer (US)
- dial gauge
- dial-in
- dial in
- dial indicator
- dial into
- dialist
- dial it in
- dialless
- diallist
- dial lock
- dial number
- dial out
- dialpainter
- dial tone
- dial-up
- dial up
- direct-dial
- don't touch that dial
- drunk dial
- mine dial
- miner's dial
- misdial
- moondial
- move the dial
- pocket-dial
- pocket dial
- predial
- radium dial
- redial
- reset the dial
- rotary dial
- rotary-dial
- shadow dial
- shift the dial
- speed dial
- speed-dial
- subdial
- tide dial
- undialed
- undialled
- video dial tone
- war-dial
Translations
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Anagrams
editNorth Frisian
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-Germanic *dailą.
Noun
editdial n or m (plural dialen) (Föhr-Amrum)
Usage notes
editAlternative forms
editEtymology 2
editFrom Proto-Germanic *dailijaną. Related with the noun above.
Verb
editdial
- (Föhr-Amrum) to divide
Conjugation
editinfinitive I | dial | |
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infinitive II | (tu) dialen | |
past participle | diald | |
imperative singular | dial | |
imperative plural | dial’m | |
present | past | |
1st singular | dial | diald |
2nd singular | dialst | dialdst |
3rd singular | dialt | diald |
plural | dial | diald |
perfect | pluperfect | |
1st singular | haa diald | hed diald |
2nd singular | heest diald | hedst diald |
3rd singular | hee diald | hed diald |
plural | haa diald | hed diald |
future (skel) | future (wel) | |
1st singular | skal dial | wal dial |
2nd singular | skääl dial | wääl dial |
3rd singular | skal dial | wal dial |
plural | skel dial | wel dial |
Alternative forms
editSpanish
editNoun
editdial m (plural diales)
Further reading
edit- “dial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Welsh
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Welsh dial, from Old Welsh digal, from Proto-Brythonic *diɣal, from Proto-Celtic *dī-galā. Cognate with Cornish dial, Breton dial and Old Irish dígal and its modern derivatives.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdial m (plural dialau or dialon)
Verb
editdial (first-person singular present dialaf)
- to avenge, to get one's own back
- Synonyms: talu'n ôl, talu'r pwyth yn ôl
Usage notes
edit- This verb is followed by the preposition ar.
Conjugation
editsingular | plural | impersonal | ||||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |||
present indicative/future | dialaf | dieli | dial, diala | dialwn | dielwch, dialwch | dialant | dielir | |
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional |
dialwn | dialit | dialai | dialem | dialech | dialent | dielid | |
preterite | dielais | dielaist | dialodd | dialasom | dialasoch | dialasant | dialwyd | |
pluperfect | dialaswn | dialasit | dialasai | dialasem | dialasech | dialasent | dialasid, dialesid | |
present subjunctive | dialwyf | dielych | dialo | dialom | dialoch | dialont | dialer | |
imperative | — | dial, diala | dialed | dialwn | dielwch, dialwch | dialent | dialer | |
verbal noun | dial | |||||||
verbal adjectives | dialedig dialadwy |
Inflected colloquial forms | singular | plural | ||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |
future | diala i, dialaf i | diali di | dialith o/e/hi, dialiff e/hi | dialwn ni | dialwch chi | dialan nhw |
conditional | dialwn i, dialswn i | dialet ti, dialset ti | dialai fo/fe/hi, dialsai fo/fe/hi | dialen ni, dialsen ni | dialech chi, dialsech chi | dialen nhw, dialsen nhw |
preterite | dialais i, diales i | dialaist ti, dialest ti | dialodd o/e/hi | dialon ni | dialoch chi | dialon nhw |
imperative | — | diala | — | — | dialwch | — |
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh. |
Derived terms
editMutation
editradical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
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dial | ddial | nial | unchanged |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
edit- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “dial”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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