Usually means: Control interface for adjusting settings.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. dial: Merriam-Webster
  2. dial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dial, dial: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dial: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dial, dial: Wordnik
  7. dial: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Dial, dial: Wiktionary
  9. dial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dial, dial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dial: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. DIAL, dial: Dictionary.com
  13. dial: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dial: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dial (band), Dial (company), Dial (measurement), Dial (soap), Dial (surname), Dial, The Dial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dial: Rhymezone
  19. dial: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dial: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. DIAL: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. dial: FreeDictionary.org
  23. dial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. dial, dial: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. dial: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dial (disambiguation), dial: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Dial (disambiguation), dial: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DIAL: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. dial: Idioms

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dial: Easton Bible
  2. Dial: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. DIAL: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dial (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. dial: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. dial: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. dial: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dial: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. DIAL: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See dialed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).
noun:  Such a field as part of a clock face; (metonymically) the entire clock face.
noun:  A sundial.
noun:  A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.
noun:  A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called.
noun:  (UK, Australia, slang) A person's face.
noun:  A miner's compass.
verb:  (transitive) To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.
verb:  (transitive) To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.
verb:  (intransitive) To use a dial or a telephone.
noun:  A surname.

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