Dial 2475811 219910827 2008-06-17T12:32:30Z 82.210.158.20 {{wiktionarypar|dial}} '''Dial''' may mean: *[[Rotary dial]], a device for the input of numbers in telephones and similar devices *A [[sundial]] or [[clock face]] *[[Dial (display)]], a display device in radio, measuring instruments, etc *Slang for a person's [[face]], e.g., P.G. Wodehouse *[[Dial House]], an anarchist-pacifist open house in Essex, England *[[Dial (soap)]] *[[Dial Corporation]], a consumer products company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Henkel KGaA *''[[The Dial]]'', an American magazine published intermittently from 1840 to 1929 *[[Dial Records]], a name used by several record companies *[[DIAL (Markup Language)]], Device Independent Authoring Language, a W3C Working Draft *[[DIAL (Text Mining)]], Declarative Information Analysis Language *[[Mode dial]], part of [[dSLR]] and SLR-like [[digital cameras]] *'dial.' can be an abbreviation for '[[dialect]]'. ===Etymology=== Its original meaning was '[[sundial]]' and/or 'clock dial', from Latin ''diālis'' = "daily", "concerning the day", because of its use in telling the time of day. {{disambig}} [[fr:Cadran]] [[ja:ダイヤル]]