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  • verb UK Present participle of dial.
  • noun Alternative form of dialing.

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Examples

  • It's emblematic of what I call the dialling down of the politics in the film.

    365 Reasons to Love Comics #309 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007

  • My sister received a few sweet symphonies of silent teenage longing, but most of the time what she and other women friends got were the groaners, the grunters, the muttering perverts, the flotsam and jetsam dialling from a place where the voice of a woman, any woman, was an invitation to spew indecent and often anatomically impossible suggestions across the looping black wires of Delhi's telephones.

    Archive 2004-05-01 2004

  • Any one trying to reach me within Nigeria would still have to make an International call my dialling my line in Ghana, though I was physically in Nigeria!

    Mobile Africa 2009

  • Any one trying to reach me within Nigeria would still have to make an International call my dialling my line in Ghana, though I was physically in Nigeria!

    Mobile Africa 2009

  • Any one trying to reach me within Nigeria would still have to make an International call my dialling my line in Ghana, though I was physically in Nigeria!

    Mobile Africa 2009

  • Any one trying to reach me within Nigeria would still have to make an International call my dialling my line in Ghana, though I was physically in Nigeria!

    Mobile Africa 2009

  • An eight-year-old, sister to one of the other players, was dialling up something on her i-Pod while a teenager near her frantically pushed the buttons on his PSP.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Ulysses 2009

  • An eight-year-old, sister to one of the other players, was dialling up something on her i-Pod while a teenager near her frantically pushed the buttons on his PSP.

    The Happy Luddite Ulysses 2009

  • Hangovers rank right up there with drunk dialling your angry ex as one of the least pleasant drinking-related side effects.

    Hangover Cures: Myth, Legend, Fact | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • Playing through Batman recently, they've done a really excellent job of the score for the game, taking all the best bits of Zimmer's work on TDK and Batman Begins and dialling it down a bit so that it's not quite so full on.

    Music Sweet Music SVGL 2009

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