telephone dial

Questions about telephone dial

What is another word for telephone dial?

It depends which telephone dial you mean. In the sense “a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called”, the synonyms are dial. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of telephone dial?

WordNet records no antonym for telephone dial. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for telephone dial come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of telephone dial

• Full entry for telephone dialAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for telephone dialWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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