Definitions
1.verbTo control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial."President Trump has recently dialled down the rhetoric."
2.verbTo select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone."In an emergency dial 999."
3.verbTo use a dial or a telephone."Please be careful when dialling."
4.nounThe act by which a number is dialed.
5.nounThe art of constructing dials; the science of measuring time by dials.
6.nounA 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; the use of a miner's dial.