Definition of dial

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Dial (n.) An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical..

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Prakrit :: Prakrit (n.) Any one of the popular dialects descended from, or akin to, Sanskrit; -- in distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used as a literary and learned language when no longer spoken by the people. Pali is one of the Prakrit dialects..
Aeolic :: Aeolic (a.) Aeolian, 1; as, the Aeolic dialect; the Aeolic mode..
Primordial :: Primordial (n.) A first principle or element.
Discoursive :: Discoursive (a.) Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory.
Gabbro :: Gabbro (n.) A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro)..
Palinodial :: Palinodial (a.) Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction..
Dialysis :: Dialysis (n.) The separation of different substances in solution, as crystalloids and colloids, by means of their unequal diffusion, especially through natural or artificial membranes..
Cordialize :: Cordialize (v. t.) To make into a cordial.
Predial :: Predial (a.) Consisting of land or farms; landed; as, predial estate; that is, real estate..
Pali :: Pali (n.) A dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc..
Transdialect :: Transdialect (v. t.) To change or translate from one dialect into another.
Gonidial :: Gonidial (a.) Of or pertaining to the angles of the mouth; as, a gonidial groove of an actinian..
Dialogically :: Dialogically (adv.) In the manner or nature of a dialogue.
Radialia :: Radialia (pl. ) of Radial.
Erse :: Erse (n.) A name sometimes given to that dialect of the Celtic which is spoken in the Highlands of Scotland; -- called, by the Highlanders, Gaelic..
Primordial :: Primordial (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest beds of the Silurian age, corresponding to the Acadian and Potsdam periods in American geology. It is called also Cambrian, and by many geologists is separated from the Silurian..
Taeniola :: Taeniola (n.) One of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medusae.
Pericardial :: Pericardial (a.) Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart.
Preaxial :: Preaxial (a.) Situated in front of any transverse axis in the body of an animal; anterior; cephalic; esp., in front, or on the anterior, or cephalic (that is, radial or tibial) side of the axis of a limb..
Cornish :: Cornish (n.) The dialect, or the people, of Cornwall..
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