dialing
verb
Definitions
To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.
Example: President Trump has recently dialled down the rhetoric.
To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.
Example: In an emergency dial 999.
To use a dial or a telephone.
Example: Please be careful when dialling.
noun
Definitions
The act by which a number is dialed.
The art of constructing dials; the science 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; the use of a miner's dial.