DIAL UP meaning: Internet access using telephone line

We found 23 dictionaries that define the word dial up:

General (14 matching dictionaries)

dial-up: Merriam-Webster
dial-up, dial up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
dial-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
dial-up, dial-up: Collins English Dictionary
Dial-Up, Dial-up, dial-up: Wordnik
dial-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
dial-up, dial up: Wiktionary
dial-up: Infoplease Dictionary
dial-up, dial up: Dictionary.com
Dial-up, Dial up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Dial Up, dial-up: TheFreeDictionary.com
dial up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)

dial-up: Netlingo
dial-up: CCI Computer
dial-up: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
Dial-up: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
dial-up: Hacking Lexicon
Dial Up, dial-up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

Dial Up: Medical dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
Dial up: Web Hosting Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dial up)

▸ verb:  To telephone, to call on the telephone.
▸ verb:  To connect a computer to a modem.
▸ verb:  To increase the level (of something) by turning a dial, or (figuratively) as if by turning a dial.

Similar:

dial, dial in, ring up, call up, phone up, call in, call, put in, phone, dial into, more...

Opposite:

broadband, high-speed, fast, cable, fiber-optic

Phrases:

dial up access, dial up account, dial up networking, dial it up, more...

Adjectives:

toll-free, call-in, hold, touch-tone, person-to-person, glare, rotary dial, h, port, dial-up, touchtone

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