diallingdialingn.

Brit.

/ˈdʌɪəlɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈdaɪ(ə)lɪŋ/

Forms: 1500s– dialling, 1600s diallyng, 1600s–1700s dyalling, 1700s– dialing (now chiefly U.S.).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dial n.¹, -ing suffix¹; dial v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly < dial n.¹ + -ing suffix¹, and partly < dial v. + -ing suffix¹.

a. The art or practice of constructing sundials and similar apparatus; the measurement of time using dials. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > [noun] > dialling

dialling1570

gnomonic1656

the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > sundial > art of making or using

dialling1570

sciathericsa1646

skiagraphy1651

1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. dij Horometrie..in Englishe, may be termed, Dialling... By Sunne, Mone, and Sterres, this Dialling may be performed, and the precise Time of day or night knowen.

1593 T. Fale Horologiographia (title page) The Art of Dialling: teaching an easie and perfect way to make all kinds of Dials vpon any plaine plat howsoeuer placed.

?1649 W. Petty in C. Webster Great Instauration (1975) 550 The Professor of Astronomy..may also treate of Dialling, Navigation & Geography, and shew the practise of whatsoever [is] practicall in them.

1673 F. Line Explic. Diall iii. 15 In the common practise of Dyalling, the style is allwayes lifted above the superperficies [read superficies] in which are the Hour-lines, to the end it may cast its shade upon them.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Dialling, the Art of drawing Sun, Moon, and Star-Dials on any given Plane, or on the Surface of any given Body.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xlv. 538 The art of dialling consists principally in projecting, on a given surface, such lines as will coincide with the shadow of an index or gnomon parallel to the earth's axis.

1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 155 Another important result of the doctrine of the sphere was Gnomonick or Dialling.

1894 Sc. Notes & Queries Oct. 64/2 The eight sides are marked with figures and lines, varying on each as the rules of dialling required.

1973 R. N. Mayall & M. W. Mayall Sundials (ed. 2) Pref. p. vi Our intent was to make the basic know-how available to anyone with an interest in dialling.

2004 J. Wolfe Humanism, Machinery, & Renaissance Lit. 95 He wrote two treatises on clocks and dialing.

†b. concrete. Sundials collectively. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > sundial > sundials collectively

dialling1749

1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour I. 238 A handsome garden, in which there is a variety of dialling.

2. Mining. Underground surveying with the aid of equipment including a compass or dial (dial n.¹ 5b). Cf. dial v. 1. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > specific methods or processes

dialling1670

traverse1674

boning1718

levelling1812

triangulation1818

resection1855

plane-tabling1867

stepping1888

tacheometry1888

tachymetry1891

trilateration1948

1670 J. Pettus Fodinæ Regales 2 He is directed toward the Shaft by a Needle touch'd with a Loadstone, the using whereof is called Dialling.

1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 202 Dialling is requisite in almost every shaft.

1825 Philos. Mag. 66 142 The subjects principally attended to should be..Surveying, Dialling, and Levelling.

1855 Mining Mag. Oct. 353 You should also possess a knowledge of dialling, so that you may lay out your workings systematically,and drive them with regularity.

1902 A. Lupton Pract. Treat. Mine Surv. 393 Dialling lamps supposed to be non-magnetic can be obtained.

2008 R. Rees Black Myst. 41 Dialling, geometrie souterrain, was a seventeenth century French practice.

3. The action or process of operating a telephone dial. Cf. dial v. 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > methods and procedures

release1882

trunking1896

hunting1912

dialling1927

hunt1927

trunk dialling1952

direct distance dialling1955

direct dialling1958

dial-up1967

1927 C. W. Wilman Man. Automatic Teleph. xxii. 219 Many of the advantages of automatic systems, such as the rapidity of connection and instantaneous clearing, are retained, while the subscribers are relieved of the duty of dialling.

1931 Punch 27 May 564/1 Those who think they can understand dialling but can't.

1965 ‘C. Fremlin’ Jealous One xxi. 169 After four or five minutes of fruitless dialling..she allowed herself to admit that there were no taxis available.

1989 Which? July 309/2 Many of them are not targeted at a particular recipient, but the result of random dialling by the caller.

2008 D. Sapsted Blind Willie vi. 110 Dialling is not the most accurate thing I do these days.

Compounds

C1. General attributive (now chiefly in sense 3), as dialling apparatus, dialling function, dialling scheme, etc.

ΚΠ

1647 J. Pell Let. 4 Nov. in Corr. with C. Cavendish (2005) 518 The English booke wanted some dialling diagrams.

1659 J. Collins Geom. Dyalling 65 The nearest distance in the Dyalling Scheam from Z to VE, is the Cosine of the declination to the former Radius.

1729 E. Stone Cunn's New Treat. Sector v. 20 The Dialling Lines.

1748 W. Hardy Miner's Guide 164 You must proceed till you have finished this Example, as you see set down in the Dialling Paper.

1825 J. Budge Pract. Miner's Guide. p. iii To prove its advantages over all the preceding modes of performing a dialling operation.

1853 L. D. Gould Amer. House Carpenter's & Joiner's Assistant 74 For dialling, the dialling lines [are required].

1855 Mining Mag. Sept. 234 We may have recourse to the dialling book for the position, length, height, and depth of the stopes and sinks.

1933 Discovery Apr. 132/1 Mechanical equipment is required to pilot the call through each successive stage from the dialling apparatus to the final selector.

1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill xii. 401 ‘Right,’ Adam said as he put his dialling-book away. ‘If it's in the Main Limestone all the way through, how much speed do you reckon we'll make?’

1969 Brit. Patent 1,148,135 1/1 The dialling function is carried out automatically.

1999 F. Ryan Tiger Tiger 204 There was a dialling apparatus on the seat of the armchair covered in tan hide.

C2.

dialling code n. a numerical sequence which can be entered on a telephone to access a particular service or make a call to a number based in a geographical area associated with that number.

ΚΠ

1927 Sioux City (Iowa) Jrnl. 23 Mar. 4/5 The dialing code for the other service calls such as ‘Repair Service’ and ‘Information’ will likewise be made more convenient.

1947 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 6 Nov. 23/1 [A prefix] must provide an unduplicated dialing code.

1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio x. 176 Dialling is rather more of a performance than being on the receiving end of a phone call, simply because most dialling codes are much too long.

2012 Nottingham Post (Nexis) 1 Mar. 15 All we had to do was remember that along with this new dialling code, we'd have to add a very quick extra digit in front of our old number.

† dialling-globe n. Obsolete rare a globe with a horizon and an index for use in dialling (sense 1a).Perhaps identical with dialling sphere n.

ΚΠ

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Dialling-Globe, an Instrument made of Brass or Wood, with a Plane fitted to the Horizon, and an Index particularly contrived to draw all sorts of Dials, and to give a clear demonstration of that Art.

1829 A. Jamieson Dict. Mech. Sci. I. 224/1 Dialing-globe, an instrument of brass or wood, with a plane fitted to the horizon.

dialling scale n. now chiefly historical a graduated scale from which hour lines may be marked off in the design and construction of a sundial; (also) the scale of hour lines on a completed sundial.

ΚΠ

1658 J. Collins Sector on Quadrant 277 On the left edge is placed the Dialling scale of hours 4 Inches long.

1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 389 A new Method of constructing Sun-Dials..without the Assistance of Dialing Scales.

1808 S. Webber Mathematics (ed. 2) II. 362 To draw a horizontal dial by means of the dialing scales.

1902 R. E. Middleton et al. Treat. Surv. II. xiv. 214 Dials may be constructed by means of a terrestrial globe, by dialling scales, or by stereographic projection.

2005 M. Lennox-Boyd Sundials (2006) 55/3 (caption) A dialling scale, c.1700, by John Rowle, brass.

dialling sphere n. now historical a sphere with a horizon and two encircling, movable graduated circles, for use in designing or demonstrating a sundial. The two circles are fixed at right angles to each other to represent the meridian and the equator respectively. The instrument could also be used to demonstrate spherical triangles.

ΚΠ

1712 E. Wells Young Gentleman's Astron., Chronol., & Dialling i. 2 The whole Foundation of Dialling, is most naturally..illustrated by the Help of an Instrument or Machine, which may be properly enough called from its Use a Dialling Sphere.

1819 Gregory's New Dict. Arts & Sci. I. at Dialling Suppose now this dialling-sphere to be suspended by the point Z, and moved about so as to have the points D and B exactly in the south and north points of the horizon.

1923 R. T. Gunther Early Sci. in Oxf. III. 143 Dials could be accurately drawn by the use of the Dialling Sphere, of which there is a fine example at Christ Church.

1997 J. Collins Perpetual Motion ix. 148 Instruments bearing his name include Drawing instruments, Pocket dials, Proportional Compasses, Parallel Rulers, Protractors, Artillery Scales, Dialling Spheres, [etc.].

dialling tone n. chiefly British a sound produced in a telephone indicating that the line is in order and the caller can start dialling.Before the introduction of automatic exchanges, no dialling tone was heard; rather, the caller would speak to an operator, who would connect the call on his or her behalf. Dialling tones are not used in mobile telephony.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > signals or tones

call signal1853

telephone call1878

tone1878

ring-off1885

busy tone1902

buzz1913

dialling tone1917

dial tone1920

ringtone1921

ringing tone1922

pip1929

pip-pip-pip1936

logatom1937

pay-tone1958

ringtone1984

1917 Telegr. & Teleph. Jrnl. Sept. 159/1 The ‘dialling’ tone.

1966 A. Prior Operators v. 47 ‘Hello, hello!’ But there was just the dialling tone.

2006 Evening Gaz. (Middlesbrough) (Nexis) 18 Apr. 15 Christine picked up the phone at home, but there was no dialling tone.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dialling
释义	diallingdialingn. Brit. /ˈdʌɪəlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdaɪ(ə)lɪŋ/ Forms: 1500s– dialling, 1600s diallyng, 1600s–1700s dyalling, 1700s– dialing (now chiefly U.S.). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dial n.¹, -ing suffix¹; dial v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: Partly < dial n.¹ + -ing suffix¹, and partly < dial v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The art or practice of constructing sundials and similar apparatus; the measurement of time using dials. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > [noun] > dialling dialling1570 gnomonic1656 the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > sundial > art of making or using dialling1570 sciathericsa1646 skiagraphy1651 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. dij Horometrie..in Englishe, may be termed, Dialling... By Sunne, Mone, and Sterres, this Dialling may be performed, and the precise Time of day or night knowen. 1593 T. Fale Horologiographia (title page) The Art of Dialling: teaching an easie and perfect way to make all kinds of Dials vpon any plaine plat howsoeuer placed. ?1649 W. Petty in C. Webster Great Instauration (1975) 550 The Professor of Astronomy..may also treate of Dialling, Navigation & Geography, and shew the practise of whatsoever [is] practicall in them. 1673 F. Line Explic. Diall iii. 15 In the common practise of Dyalling, the style is allwayes lifted above the superperficies [read superficies] in which are the Hour-lines, to the end it may cast its shade upon them. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Dialling, the Art of drawing Sun, Moon, and Star-Dials on any given Plane, or on the Surface of any given Body. 1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xlv. 538 The art of dialling consists principally in projecting, on a given surface, such lines as will coincide with the shadow of an index or gnomon parallel to the earth's axis. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 155 Another important result of the doctrine of the sphere was Gnomonick or Dialling. 1894 Sc. Notes & Queries Oct. 64/2 The eight sides are marked with figures and lines, varying on each as the rules of dialling required. 1973 R. N. Mayall & M. W. Mayall Sundials (ed. 2) Pref. p. vi Our intent was to make the basic know-how available to anyone with an interest in dialling. 2004 J. Wolfe Humanism, Machinery, & Renaissance Lit. 95 He wrote two treatises on clocks and dialing. †b. concrete. Sundials collectively. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > sundial > sundials collectively dialling1749 1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour I. 238 A handsome garden, in which there is a variety of dialling. 2. Mining. Underground surveying with the aid of equipment including a compass or dial (dial n.¹ 5b). Cf. dial v. 1. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > specific methods or processes dialling1670 traverse1674 boning1718 levelling1812 triangulation1818 resection1855 plane-tabling1867 stepping1888 tacheometry1888 tachymetry1891 trilateration1948 1670 J. Pettus Fodinæ Regales 2 He is directed toward the Shaft by a Needle touch'd with a Loadstone, the using whereof is called Dialling. 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 202 Dialling is requisite in almost every shaft. 1825 Philos. Mag. 66 142 The subjects principally attended to should be..Surveying, Dialling, and Levelling. 1855 Mining Mag. Oct. 353 You should also possess a knowledge of dialling, so that you may lay out your workings systematically,and drive them with regularity. 1902 A. Lupton Pract. Treat. Mine Surv. 393 Dialling lamps supposed to be non-magnetic can be obtained. 2008 R. Rees Black Myst. 41 Dialling, geometrie souterrain, was a seventeenth century French practice. 3. The action or process of operating a telephone dial. Cf. dial v. 3. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > methods and procedures release1882 trunking1896 hunting1912 dialling1927 hunt1927 trunk dialling1952 direct distance dialling1955 direct dialling1958 dial-up1967 1927 C. W. Wilman Man. Automatic Teleph. xxii. 219 Many of the advantages of automatic systems, such as the rapidity of connection and instantaneous clearing, are retained, while the subscribers are relieved of the duty of dialling. 1931 Punch 27 May 564/1 Those who think they can understand dialling but can't. 1965 ‘C. Fremlin’ Jealous One xxi. 169 After four or five minutes of fruitless dialling..she allowed herself to admit that there were no taxis available. 1989 Which? July 309/2 Many of them are not targeted at a particular recipient, but the result of random dialling by the caller. 2008 D. Sapsted Blind Willie vi. 110 Dialling is not the most accurate thing I do these days. Compounds C1. General attributive (now chiefly in sense 3), as dialling apparatus, dialling function, dialling scheme, etc. ΚΠ 1647 J. Pell Let. 4 Nov. in Corr. with C. Cavendish (2005) 518 The English booke wanted some dialling diagrams. 1659 J. Collins Geom. Dyalling 65 The nearest distance in the Dyalling Scheam from Z to VE, is the Cosine of the declination to the former Radius. 1729 E. Stone Cunn's New Treat. Sector v. 20 The Dialling Lines. 1748 W. Hardy Miner's Guide 164 You must proceed till you have finished this Example, as you see set down in the Dialling Paper. 1825 J. Budge Pract. Miner's Guide. p. iii To prove its advantages over all the preceding modes of performing a dialling operation. 1853 L. D. Gould Amer. House Carpenter's & Joiner's Assistant 74 For dialling, the dialling lines [are required]. 1855 Mining Mag. Sept. 234 We may have recourse to the dialling book for the position, length, height, and depth of the stopes and sinks. 1933 Discovery Apr. 132/1 Mechanical equipment is required to pilot the call through each successive stage from the dialling apparatus to the final selector. 1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill xii. 401 ‘Right,’ Adam said as he put his dialling-book away. ‘If it's in the Main Limestone all the way through, how much speed do you reckon we'll make?’ 1969 Brit. Patent 1,148,135 1/1 The dialling function is carried out automatically. 1999 F. Ryan Tiger Tiger 204 There was a dialling apparatus on the seat of the armchair covered in tan hide. C2. dialling code n. a numerical sequence which can be entered on a telephone to access a particular service or make a call to a number based in a geographical area associated with that number. ΚΠ 1927 Sioux City (Iowa) Jrnl. 23 Mar. 4/5 The dialing code for the other service calls such as ‘Repair Service’ and ‘Information’ will likewise be made more convenient. 1947 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 6 Nov. 23/1 [A prefix] must provide an unduplicated dialing code. 1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio x. 176 Dialling is rather more of a performance than being on the receiving end of a phone call, simply because most dialling codes are much too long. 2012 Nottingham Post (Nexis) 1 Mar. 15 All we had to do was remember that along with this new dialling code, we'd have to add a very quick extra digit in front of our old number. † dialling-globe n. Obsolete rare a globe with a horizon and an index for use in dialling (sense 1a).Perhaps identical with dialling sphere n. ΚΠ 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Dialling-Globe, an Instrument made of Brass or Wood, with a Plane fitted to the Horizon, and an Index particularly contrived to draw all sorts of Dials, and to give a clear demonstration of that Art. 1829 A. Jamieson Dict. Mech. Sci. I. 224/1 Dialing-globe, an instrument of brass or wood, with a plane fitted to the horizon. dialling scale n. now chiefly historical a graduated scale from which hour lines may be marked off in the design and construction of a sundial; (also) the scale of hour lines on a completed sundial. ΚΠ 1658 J. Collins Sector on Quadrant 277 On the left edge is placed the Dialling scale of hours 4 Inches long. 1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 389 A new Method of constructing Sun-Dials..without the Assistance of Dialing Scales. 1808 S. Webber Mathematics (ed. 2) II. 362 To draw a horizontal dial by means of the dialing scales. 1902 R. E. Middleton et al. Treat. Surv. II. xiv. 214 Dials may be constructed by means of a terrestrial globe, by dialling scales, or by stereographic projection. 2005 M. Lennox-Boyd Sundials (2006) 55/3 (caption) A dialling scale, c.1700, by John Rowle, brass. dialling sphere n. now historical a sphere with a horizon and two encircling, movable graduated circles, for use in designing or demonstrating a sundial. The two circles are fixed at right angles to each other to represent the meridian and the equator respectively. The instrument could also be used to demonstrate spherical triangles. ΚΠ 1712 E. Wells Young Gentleman's Astron., Chronol., & Dialling i. 2 The whole Foundation of Dialling, is most naturally..illustrated by the Help of an Instrument or Machine, which may be properly enough called from its Use a Dialling Sphere. 1819 Gregory's New Dict. Arts & Sci. I. at Dialling Suppose now this dialling-sphere to be suspended by the point Z, and moved about so as to have the points D and B exactly in the south and north points of the horizon. 1923 R. T. Gunther Early Sci. in Oxf. III. 143 Dials could be accurately drawn by the use of the Dialling Sphere, of which there is a fine example at Christ Church. 1997 J. Collins Perpetual Motion ix. 148 Instruments bearing his name include Drawing instruments, Pocket dials, Proportional Compasses, Parallel Rulers, Protractors, Artillery Scales, Dialling Spheres, [etc.]. dialling tone n. chiefly British a sound produced in a telephone indicating that the line is in order and the caller can start dialling.Before the introduction of automatic exchanges, no dialling tone was heard; rather, the caller would speak to an operator, who would connect the call on his or her behalf. Dialling tones are not used in mobile telephony. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > signals or tones call signal1853 telephone call1878 tone1878 ring-off1885 busy tone1902 buzz1913 dialling tone1917 dial tone1920 ringtone1921 ringing tone1922 pip1929 pip-pip-pip1936 logatom1937 pay-tone1958 ringtone1984 1917 Telegr. & Teleph. Jrnl. Sept. 159/1 The ‘dialling’ tone. 1966 A. Prior Operators v. 47 ‘Hello, hello!’ But there was just the dialling tone. 2006 Evening Gaz. (Middlesbrough) (Nexis) 18 Apr. 15 Christine picked up the phone at home, but there was no dialling tone. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1570
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