Dial and Pick up

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Dial verb - To make a telephone call to.

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Pick up and dial are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pick up" instead a verb "Dial".

Nearby Words: dialed, dialled, dialing, dialling, dialler

Pick up verb - To acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in.

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Dial and pick up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dial" instead a verb "Pick up".

The employee tells the person they will have a supervisor paged, pick up the phone, dial 911, and then hang up.

Source: Out-of-Character Alert
Now let's watch Benji pick up a pencil in his teeth and dial the telephone!

Source: Roger Ebert Most Hated Film List
The song "One More River" by James Reyne has the line, "Pick up the Batphone and dial my number."

Source: To the Batnoun!

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