Definition of dial

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Dial (n.) An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical..

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Conversation :: Conversation (n.) Colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue.
Dialling :: Dialling () of Dia.
Exocardial :: Exocardial (a.) Situated or arising outside of the heat; as, exocardial murmurs; -- opposed to endocardiac..
Infrastapedial :: Infrastapedial (n.) The infrastapedial part of the columella.
Plumming :: Plumming (n.) The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines..
Gerundive :: Gerundive (a.) Pertaining to, or partaking of, the nature of the gerund; gerundial..
Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) A marine, sparoid, food fish of California (Caesiosoma Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also medialuna..
Episodial :: Episodial (a.) Pertaining to an episode; by way of episode; episodic.
Dialogically :: Dialogically (adv.) In the manner or nature of a dialogue.
Dialect :: Dialect (n.) Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.
Primordial :: Primordial (a.) First in order; primary; original; of earliest origin; as, primordial condition..
Salve :: Salve (n.) To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound..
Anatreptic :: Anatreptic (a.) Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues.
Sundog :: Sundial (n.) An instrument to show the time of day by means of the shadow of a gnomon, or style, on a plate..
Clock :: Clock (n.) A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person..
Doric :: Doric (n.) The Doric dialect.
Pleuropericardial :: Pleuropericardial (a.) Of or pertaining to the pleura and pericardium.
Gonydial :: Gonydial (a.) Pertaining to the gonys of a bird's beak.
Reel :: Reel (n.) A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel..
Horography :: Horography (n.) The art of constructing instruments for making the hours, as clocks, watches, and dials..
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