English Dictionary: dialling | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dial \Di"al\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dialed}or {Dialled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dialing} or {Dialling}.] 1. To measure with a dial. Hours of that true time which is dialed in heaven. --Talfourd. 2. (Mining) To survey with a dial. --Raymond. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Dialing \Di"al*ing\, n. 1. The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials. [Written also {dialling}.] 2. A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor. |