DIALING

To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.

"President Trump has recently dialled down the rhetoric."

To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.

"In an emergency dial 999."

To use a dial or a telephone.

"Please be careful when dialling."

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.