Dial and Show

Dial

Dial noun - The circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments.
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Synonyms for Dial

Show and dial are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Show" instead a noun "Dial".

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

Show

Show noun - An outward and often exaggerated indication of something abstract (as a feeling) for effect.

Dial and show are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dial" instead a noun "Show".

Nearby Words: showy, showed, showing, showcase, shown

Common collocations

time dial time show time
bit dial bit show bit
damage dial damage show damage
traits dial traits show traits

Both words in one sentence

  • Comic Book / Dial H For Hero But decades before that show premiered, the concept was used in a DC Comics series titled Dial H For Hero.The series began as a feature in DC's House of Mystery anthology comic, in 1966.
  • Every once in a while on Negativland's "Over the Edge" weekly show on KPFA, this gets played on a DTMF tone generator (a device that creates the sounds heard on telephone touch-tone dial pads).
  • It was shown a few times in the show that KITT was capable of being reprogrammed by turning a dial and messing around with the circuitry under his dashboard.
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