dial
拨号,转盘,拨款,拨号器
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- : a plate, disk, face, or other surface containing markings or figures upon which the time of day is indicated by hands, pointers, or shadows, as of a clock or sundial.
- : a plate or disk with markings or figures for indicating or registering some measurement or number, as of pressure, number of revolutions, the frequency to which a radio is tuned, etc., usually by means of a pointer.
- : a rotatable plate, disk, or knob used for regulating a mechanism, making and breaking electrical connections, etc., as in tuning a radio or television station in or out.
- : Also called ro·ta·ry di·al [roh-tuh-ree dahy-uhl, dahyl]. /ˈroʊ tə ri ˌdaɪ əl, ˌdaɪl/. a rotatable plate or disk on a telephone, fitted with finger holes that are marked with letters or numbers, used in making calls through an automatic switchboard.
- : any mechanism on the face of a telephone by which the caller places a call, as push buttons.
- : Also called min·er's di·al [mahy-nerz dahy-uhl, dahyl]. /ˈmaɪ nərz ˌdaɪ əl, ˌdaɪl/. Mining. a compass used for underground surveying.
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di·aled, di·al·ing or di·alled, di·al·ling.
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Facebook's new moves to dial back the volume of political content in users' news feeds represent the latest lurch in the social network's erratic handling of its role as the world's digital public square.
Before, the majority of people would be in a conference room somewhere, and others would dial in.
By consciously checking in with yourself, you can better home in on what triggers bad feelings and decide what activities to avoid or dial back in the future.
The temperature dial allows precise control of heating and uses a simple turn on-and-off design for ease of use.
Rather than force his own offense, Green has dialed up his dimes to new levels.
In January 2013, the TRN group filed a second complaint in the Dial Global suit, demanding a jury trial.
Cumulus Media, which now owns the former Dial Global, declined to comment on the suit for this story.
This suspension, Masters said, had been forced upon ARNN by the Dial Global lawsuit.
The Queen sent her first email at an RAF base in 1976 and she made the first direct-dial trunk call from the UK in 1958.
All a thief had to do was take off the dial knob on the safe and place the little joker on inside of it.
Yes,” said he, at length, “it works very well; but you have got the figures on the dial wrong.