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dial has 1 distinct synonym spread across 1 of its 6 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours
the control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning
the circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for dial come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called