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say it: DAHY-uhl
dial is a noun and verb meaning "the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours". It carries 6 recorded senses.
a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called
operate a dial to select a telephone number
“You must take the receiver off the hook before you dial”
telephone
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dial come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.