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"text": "“Well, all I can say is that if yer don't take yer dial outer the road I'll bloomin' well take an' bounce a gibber off yer crust.”",
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"ref": "1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter IX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:",
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{
"ref": "2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 137:",
"text": "Old Mona Lisa would have looked like a sour lemon beside Angel Day on the rare days she put a smile on her dial, laughing with her friends when some new man was in town.",
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"word": "ܚܲܘܸܓ݂"
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"ref": "1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 90:",
"text": "“Well, all I can say is that if yer don't take yer dial outer the road I'll bloomin' well take an' bounce a gibber off yer crust.”",
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"ref": "1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter IX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:",
"text": "At the sound of the old familiar voice he spun around with something of the agility of a cat on hot bricks, and I saw that his dial, usually cheerful, was contorted with anguish, as if he had swallowed a bad oyster.",
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"ref": "2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 137:",
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],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otčítam",
"sense": "to measure or indicate something with a dial",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "отчи́там"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sčítyvatʹ",
"sense": "to measure or indicate something with a dial",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "счи́тывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sčitátʹ",
"sense": "to measure or indicate something with a dial",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "счита́ть"
},
{
"code": "aii",
"lang": "Assyrian Neo-Aramaic",
"roman": "ḥawwiḡ",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "ܚܲܘܸܓ݂"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nabíram",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "наби́рам"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "撥"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bō",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "拨"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "打電話"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dǎ diànhuà",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "打电话"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "ringe"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "taste"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "soittaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "composer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "signaler"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "wählen"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "khiyeg",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "חייג \\ חִיֵּג"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "milānā",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "मिलाना"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "tárcsáz"
},
{
"alt": "でんわをかける",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "denwa o kakeru",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "電話をかける"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jeonhwa-reul geolda",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "전화를 걸다"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "wykręcić"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "wybrać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "discar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "forma"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nabirátʹ",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "набира́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nabrátʹ",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "набра́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zvonítʹ",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "звони́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pozvonítʹ",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "позвони́ть"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "comharraich"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "marcar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "slå"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "aramak"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "milānā",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "ملانا"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone",
"word": "quay"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pokázvam",
"sense": "tо read (a clock)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "пока́звам"
}
],
"word": "dial"
}
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