1. dialing - Noun
2. dialing - Verb
of Dial
The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNow all of us can talk to the NSA-just by dialing any number. David Letterman
Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system. Nick Hornby
Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. "It makes me crazy," she said. "You know they're playing it somewhere, but you have to find it. Jeffrey Eugenides
Dialing down is not an option for me. Jimmy Wales
I'm just going to keep dialing it in and keep practicing. Shaun White