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Dial vs. Deal — What's the Difference?

Dial vs. Deal — 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.

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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