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Dial vs. Button — What's the Difference?

Dial vs. Button — What's the Difference?

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Dial

A graduated surface or face on which a measurement, such as speed, is indicated by a moving needle or pointer.

Button

In modern clothing and fashion design, a button is a small fastener, now most commonly made of plastic but also may be made of metal, wood, or seashell, that joins two pieces of fabric together. In archaeology, a button can be a significant artifact.

Dial

The face of a clock.

Button

A small disc or knob sewn on to a garment, either to fasten it by being pushed through a slit made for the purpose or for decoration.

Dial

A sundial.
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Button

A small device on a piece of electrical or electronic equipment which is pressed to operate it.

Dial

The panel or face on a radio or television receiver on which the frequencies or channels are indicated.

Button

A badge bearing a design or slogan and pinned to clothing.

Dial

A movable control knob or other device on a radio or television receiver used to change the frequency.

Button

Fasten (clothing) with buttons
He buttoned up his jacket

Dial

A rotatable disk on a telephone with numbers and letters, used to signal the number to which a call is made.

Button

Stop talking.

Dial

To measure with or as if with a dial.

Button

A generally disk-shaped fastener used to join two parts of a garment by fitting through a buttonhole or loop.

Dial

To point to, indicate, or register by means of a dial.

Button

Such an object used for decoration.

Dial

To control or select by means of a dial
Dial a radio station.

Button

A push-button switch.

Dial

To call (a party) on a telephone.

Button

The blunt tip of a fencing foil.

Dial

To signal (a number) in making a telephone call
The program dials the number and then connects to the file server.

Button

A fused metal or glass globule.

Dial

To use a dial.

Button

In graphical user interface systems, a well-defined area within the interface that is clicked to select a command.

Dial

To use a telephone.

Button

In a hypertext database, an icon that when selected allows a user to view a particular associated object.

Dial

A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).
The dial on the dashboard showed the car was nearly out of gas.

Button

An immature, unexpanded mushroom.

Dial

A clock face.

Button

The tip of a rattlesnake's rattle.

Dial

A sundial.

Button

A usually round flat badge that bears a design or printed information and is typically pinned to a garment
A campaign button.

Dial

A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.
Turn the dial to Radio 4: my favourite show is on!

Button

(Informal) The end of the chin, regarded as the point of impact for a punch.

Dial

A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called.
His hands were too fat to operate the dial on the telephone.

Button

In card games, especially poker, a plastic disk or similar marker placed in front of the person who is designated as dealer for a particular hand. At the start of each hand, the first card is dealt to the left of the button and the dealing of cards continues clockwise around the table.

Dial

A person's face.

Button

The person who is in possession of this button.

Dial

A miner's compass.

Button

The position on the gaming table where this button is located.

Dial

(transitive) To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.
The president has recently dialled down the rhetoric.

Button

To fasten with buttons
Buttoned his shirt.
Buttoned up her raincoat.

Dial

(transitive) To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.
In an emergency dial 999.

Button

To decorate or furnish with buttons.

Dial

(intransitive) To use a dial or a telephone.
Please be careful when dialling.

Button

(Informal) To close (the lips or mouth)
Button your lip.

Dial

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.

Button

To be or be capable of being fastened with buttons
The blouse buttons up the back.

Dial

The graduated face of a timepiece, on which the time of day is shown by pointers or hands.

Button

A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
April fastened the buttons of her overcoat to keep out the wind.

Dial

A miner's compass.

Button

A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
Pat pushed the button marked "shred" on the blender.

Dial

To measure with a dial.
Hours of that true time which is dialed in heaven.

Button

(graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
Click the button that looks like a house to return to your browser's home page.

Dial

To survey with a dial.

Button

(US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
The politician wore a bright yellow button with the slogan "Vote Smart" emblazoned on it.

Dial

The face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours

Button

(botany) A bud.

Dial

The control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning

Button

The head of an unexpanded mushroom.

Dial

The circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments

Button

(slang) The clitoris.

Dial

A disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called

Button

(curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.

Dial

Operate a dial to select a telephone number;
You must take the receiver off the hook before you dial

Button

(fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.

Dial

Choose by means of a dial;
Dial a telephone number

Button

(poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.

Button

(poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.

Button

(archaic) A person who acts as a decoy.

Button

A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.

Button

(aviation) The end of a runway.

Button

A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).

Button

A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.

Button

A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.

Button

A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.

Button

A small white blotch on a cat's coat.

Button

A unit of length equal to 12 inch.

Button

(generally with the) The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.

Button

(lutherie) In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.

Button

(lutherie) endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.

Button

Synonym of adjuster.

Button

The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.

Button

(television) The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.

Button

(comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).

Button

(slang) A button man; a professional assassin.

Button

The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.

Button

A clove of garlic.

Button

(zoology) Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.

Button

(transitive) To fasten with a button.

Button

(intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons.
The coat will not button.

Button

(informal) To stop talking.

Button

A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.

Button

A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; - used also for ornament.

Button

A bud; a germ of a plant.

Button

A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.

Button

A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.

Button

To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; - often followed by up.
He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to the throat in a tight green coat.

Button

To dress or clothe.

Button

To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.

Button

A round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes

Button

An electrical switch operated by pressing a button;
The elevator was operated by push buttons
The push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk

Button

Any of various plant parts that resemble buttons

Button

A female sexual organ homologous to the penis

Button

Provide with buttons;
Button a shirt

Button

Fasten with buttons;
Button the dress

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