dialleddialedadj.
/ˈdʌɪəld/, U.S. /ˈdaɪ(ə)ld/ 1. Marked with, or provided with, a dial. Also: measured or set by a dial.The sense in quot. 1625 is unclear.
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1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. iv. xvi. 569 His fingers euery one, with at least two or three Rings; fettered with chaines, or dyalled Diamonds.
1817 T. L. Peacock Melincourt III. xxxii. 50 The careless hours..Still trace upon the dialled brass The shade of their unvarying way.
a1869 G. Heath Poems (1870) 44 A dialled steeple, and a chime of bells.
1891 W. Tuckwell Tongues in Trees 145 Six hours to toil, the rest to leisure give, In them—so say the dialled hours—live.
1933 Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 47 Twin electric eyes, connected to a dialed meter, are used to gage the intensity of the light.
1959 Sci. News Let. 10 Jan. 32/1 Melting point device..to identify chemical compouds, heats to the dialed temperature and cools rapidly.
2011 J. Dettman Moth to Flame 125 He returned with a dialled implement, which Archie watched him attach to the sick motor.
2. Of a telephone number, etc.: that has been dialled.
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1922 Automatic Telephone May 70/1 The automatic telephone company... The place where all good dialed numbers find their mates.
1959 Jrnl. Amer. Water Wks. Assoc. 51 603/1 Selective equipment for the unit to receive dialed calls costs another $200.
1973 B. Randell Origins Digital Computers vi. 237 As early as 1906 M olina devised a system for translating the pulses representing the dialled decimal digits into a more convenient number system.
2012 Lancs. Tel. (Nexis) 30 Oct. His Nokia mobile phone was found in Albion Street by a male passer-by who proceeded to call the last dialled number in the phone.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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