Dial vs. Deal — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dial and Deal
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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.
Deal
To give out in shares or portions; apportion
A critic who deals out as much praise as blame.
Dial
The face of a clock.
Deal
To distribute (playing cards) among players.
Dial
A sundial.
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Deal
To give (a specific card) to a player while so distributing.
Dial
The panel or face on a radio or television receiver on which the frequencies or channels are indicated.
Deal
To sell
Deal prescriptions.
Deal cocaine.
Dial
A movable control knob or other device on a radio or television receiver used to change the frequency.
Deal
To administer; deliver
Dealt him a blow to the stomach.
Dial
A rotatable disk on a telephone with numbers and letters, used to signal the number to which a call is made.
Deal
To be occupied or concerned
A book that deals with the Middle Ages.
Dial
To measure with or as if with a dial.
Deal
To behave in a specified way toward another or others; have transactions
Deal honestly with competitors.
Dial
To point to, indicate, or register by means of a dial.
Deal
To take action with respect to someone or something
The committee will deal with this complaint.
Dial
To control or select by means of a dial
Dial a radio station.
Deal
(Informal) To cope
I can't deal with all of this arguing!.
Dial
To call (a party) on a telephone.
Deal
To do business; trade
Dealing in diamonds.
Dial
To signal (a number) in making a telephone call
The program dials the number and then connects to the file server.
Deal
(Games) To distribute playing cards.
Dial
To use a dial.
Deal
(Slang) To buy and sell drugs, especially illegally.
Dial
To use a telephone.
Deal
(Baseball) To throw a pitch.
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.
Deal
The act or a round of apportioning or distributing.
Dial
A clock face.
Deal
Distribution of playing cards.
Dial
A sundial.
Deal
The cards so distributed; a hand.
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!
Deal
The right or turn of a player to distribute the cards.
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.
Deal
The playing of one hand.
Dial
A person's face.
Deal
An indefinite quantity, extent, or degree
Has a great deal of experience.
Dial
A miner's compass.
Deal
An agreement, especially one that is mutually beneficial.
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.
Deal
A business transaction
Struck a deal to buy a car dealership.
Dial
(transitive) To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.
In an emergency dial 999.
Deal
A legal contract
Signed a deal to play for a new team.
Dial
(intransitive) To use a dial or a telephone.
Please be careful when dialling.
Deal
(Informal) A sale favorable especially to the buyer; a bargain.
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.
Deal
(Informal) Treatment received
A raw deal.
A fair deal.
Dial
The graduated face of a timepiece, on which the time of day is shown by pointers or hands.
Deal
(Informal) The situation or background information regarding something
What's the deal with the new teacher?.
Dial
A miner's compass.
Deal
A fir or pine board cut to standard dimensions.
Dial
To measure with a dial.
Hours of that true time which is dialed in heaven.
Deal
Such boards or planks considered as a group.
Dial
To survey with a dial.
Deal
Fir or pine wood.
Dial
The face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours
Deal
(obsolete) A division, a portion, a share, a part, a piece.
We gave three deals of grain in tribute to the king.
Dial
The control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning
Deal
(often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
Dial
The circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments
Deal
An act of dealing or sharing out.
Dial
A disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called
Deal
(card games) The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
I didn’t have a good deal all evening.
I believe it's your deal.
Dial
Operate a dial to select a telephone number;
You must take the receiver off the hook before you dial
Deal
A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
We need to finalise the deal with Henderson by midnight.
Recognizing the societal deal between capital and labor regarding retirement savings
Dial
Choose by means of a dial;
Dial a telephone number
Deal
(in particular) A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
Deal
An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
He made a deal with the devil.
Deal
(informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
What's the deal here?
Their new movie is the biggest deal of the year.
I don't think that's such a big deal.
Deal
(informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
The deal with four tines is called a pitchfork.
Deal
(uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
Deal
(countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
Deal
A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.
Deal
(a) Male genitalia.
He saw my deal!
Deal
(transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
The fighting is over; now we deal out the spoils of victory.
Deal
(transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
Deal
(ambitransitive) To distribute cards to the players in a game.
I was dealt four aces.
The cards were shuffled, and the croupier dealt.
Deal
(transitive) deliver damage, a blow, strike or cut. To inflict.
The boxer was dealt a blow to the head.
Deal
(baseball) To pitch.
The whole crowd waited for him to deal a real humdinger.
Deal
(intransitive) To have dealings or business.
Deal
(intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
Deal
To take action; to act.
Deal
(intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
She deals in gold.
Deal
(ambitransitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
This club takes a dim view of members who deal drugs.
Deal
(intransitive) To be concerned with.
Deal
(intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
I can't deal with this.
Deal
Made of deal.
A plain deal table
Deal
A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.
Three tenth deals [parts of an ephah] of flour.
As an object of science it [the Celtic genius] may count for a good deal . . . as a spiritual power.
She was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect.
Deal
The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed.
The deal, the shuffle, and the cut.
Deal
Distribution; apportionment.
Deal
An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; - applied to stock speculations and political bargains.
Deal
The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end.
Deal
Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal.
Deal
To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; - sometimes with out.
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry?
And Rome deals out her blessings and her gold.
The nightly mallet deals resounding blows.
Hissing through the skies, the feathery deaths were dealt.
Deal
Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack.
Deal
To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players.
Deal
To do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour.
They buy and sell, they deal and traffic.
This is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other petty merchants deal but for parcels.
Deal
To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; - followed by between or with.
Sometimes he that deals between man and man, raiseth his own credit with both, by pretending greater interest than he hath in either.
Deal
To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat.
If he will deal clearly and impartially, . . . he will acknowledge all this to be true.
Deal
To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with.
The deacons of his church, who, to use their own phrase, "dealt with him" on the sin of rejecting the aid which Providence so manifestly held out.
Return . . . and I will deal well with thee.
Deal
A particular instance of buying or selling;
It was a package deal
I had no further trade with him
He's a master of the business deal
Deal
An agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each;
He made a bargain with the devil
He rose to prominence through a series of shady deals
Deal
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
A batch of letters
A deal of trouble
A lot of money
He made a mint on the stock market
It must have cost plenty
Deal
A plank of softwood (fir or pine board)
Deal
Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)
Deal
The cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time;
I didn't hold a good hand all evening
He kept trying to see my hand
Deal
The type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement);
He got a good deal on his car
Deal
The act of distributing playing cards;
The deal was passed around the table clockwise
Deal
The act of apportioning or distributing something;
The captain was entrusted with the deal of provisions
Deal
Deal with verbally or in some form of artistic expression;
This book deals with incest
The course covered all of Western Civilization
The new book treats the history of China
Deal
Take action with respect to (someone or something);
How are we going to deal with this problem?
The teacher knew how to deal with these lazy students
Deal
Take into consideration for exemplifying purposes;
Take the case of China
Consider the following case
Deal
Come to terms or deal successfully with;
We got by on just a gallon of gas
They made do on half a loaf of bread every day
Deal
Administer or bestow, as in small portions;
Administer critical remarks to everyone present
Dole out some money
Shell out pocket money for the children
Deal a blow to someone
Deal
Do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood;
She deals in gold
The brothers sell shoes
Deal
Be in charge of, act on, or dispose of;
I can deal with this crew of workers
This blender can't handle nuts
She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old
Deal
Behave in a certain way towards others;
He deals fairly with his employees
Deal
Distribute to the players in a game;
Who's dealing?
Deal
Direct the course of; manage or control;
You cannot conduct business like this
Deal
Give out as one's portion or share
Deal
Give (a specific card) to a player;
He dealt me the Queen of Spades
Deal
Sell;
Deal hashish
Deal
Made of fir or pine;
A plain deal table
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