What's the difference between dialing and dilling?
Dialing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dial
(n.) The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials.
(n.) A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a 1-stage random-digit dial telephone survey, we estimated the number of pet dogs and cats and cancer case ascertainment in the principal catchment area of an animal tumor registry in Indiana, the Purdue Comparative Oncology Program (PCOP).
(2) Treatment of Xenopus laevis membranes with the 2',3'-dialdehyde of GTP (dial GTP) drastically inhibits their adenylyl cyclase activity.
(3) Somebody rashly asked if he listened to the recently reprieved 6 Music – no – or even Radio 1, which he only caught, he said, when turning the dial between Radios 3 and 4.
(4) For the embattled people of Ali Akbar Dial, a collection of disappearing villages on the southern tip of the island in Bangladesh , the distant trees serve as a bittersweet reminder of what they have lost and a warning of what is come.
(5) This enabled the technologist to dial in each patient's identification number, which then appeared on every frame of the 35-mm film used.
(6) Controls were identified by random-digit dialing and from lists of Medicare recipients.
(7) Dial-A-Flo has no advantage over a standard administration set alone, and should not be used for controlled administration of cardiac drugs.
(8) The effects of barrier and spermicidal methods of contraception on cervical cancer risk were examined by studying 479 cases of histologically confirmed invasive cervical cancer cases and 788 random digit dialing controls.
(9) During trials to increase temperature, subjects were shown a dial indicating temperature of an index finger and were instructed to try to warm their hands.
(10) The 4536 controls were women of similar ages selected by random dialing of households with telephones in the same eight areas.
(11) A factorial design was used to determine the influence of carrier-gas helium concentration, carrier-gas flow rate and vaporizer dial setting on the output of four vaporizers: Ohio Calibrated Enflurane, Ohio Calibrated Isoflurane, Ohmeda Isotec 4, and Dräger Vapor 19.1 Isoflurane.
(12) The use of digital reader boards, displayed in watts rather than an arbitrary dial setting is one example.
(13) The controls were 4676 women selected by random-digit dialing of the population of each area covered by a registry.
(14) Output was converted to % of baseline so that different dial settings could be compared.
(15) Interviews with 478 controls of the same age, identified through telephone random-digit dialing, were conducted twice during the same time period.
(16) Controls were selected by random digit dialing to approximate the case distribution by age, sex, and telephone exchange area.
(17) Control subjects were identified by random-digit dialing from these same regions and were frequency-matched to men with lymphoma by age.
(18) In rabbits anaesthetized with Dial ACh has been collected from the surface of the cerebral cortex during stimulation of the visual pathways.2.
(19) Behind the scenes, shareholders did encourage Reckitt to dial down Becht's rewards in 2007.
(20) A spring-loaded dial indicator produces results that are accurate, precise and reproducible.
Dilling
Definition:
(n.) A darling; a favorite.
Example Sentences:
(1) Titrations with urea, analyzed according to the heteropolymer theory [Alonso, D. O. V., & Dill, K. A.
(2) I asked her what she thought of the freezing weather here and she said she was used to it.” At lunch, Kate dined on herb-infused vegetable terrine, poached salmon with dill hollandaise sauce, lemon pearl barley risotto and sautéed vegetables.
(3) We conclude that the Dill-Glazko test should not be used.
(4) The ‘ukropi’ [‘dill people’, a derogatory term for Ukrainians] pounded us.
(5) Diffuse intermediate lymphocytic lymphoma (DILL) is considered a late stage in the progression of MZL.
(6) The Dill-Glazko test was affected by low urinary pH and by addition of erythrocytes to urine.
(7) These findings are in agreement with the mean field statistical thermodynamic theory of Dill, which predicts that increased stationary phase chain density should lead to increased anisotropic chain ordering and increased solute-shape selectivity.
(8) Walter Dill Scott was the major proponent of this theory, and it was largely through his writings that advertising men learned about the psychology of suggestion.
(9) Dill or fennel butter Substitute dill or fennel for the parsley.
(10) This study confirms the low sensitivity (less than 55%) of the Dill-Glazko test in urine, which is 100-1000 times less sensitive than the ELISA; the latter can detect 10-20 ng chloroquine per ml.
(11) These results suggest that the botanically related spices, coriander, anise and dill, contain common IgE-binding structures.
(12) To buy it from the Guardian Bookshop for £22.50, click here Uyen Luu’s seabass congee Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer With kale, ginger and dill Congee is a soup usually made from leftover cooked rice and is a breakfast favourite in Vietnam.
(13) • 2814 North 16 Street, barriocafe.com CULINARY HEROES FnB Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Jill Richards Photography Among the Native American souvenir stores of Scottsdale old town, is the excellent FnB, a truly forward-thinking, showcase for the state’s native produce in veg-centric dishes: salad of persimmons with hazelnut, kohlrabi, dill and goat’s cheese.
(14) That night, as we sat around the fire, feasting on chicken and dill casserole washed down with Bryg brown ale, and with the sea only metres away, I felt the Danish concept of hygge – roughly meaning cosy or content.
(15) The authors establish that choleretic action of the dill oil is manifested comparatively slightly in uneven increase of the basic bile components.
(16) Recent lattice polymer simulations by Chan & Dill suggest that compactness may be a significant driving force in the formation of secondary structure.
(17) An improved method has been developed for the extraction of light filth from whole, cracked, or flaked spices (basil, bay leaves, clery leaves, chervil, chives, dill weed, mint flakes, parsley, rosemary, sage, tarragon, thyme, and vegetable flakes) and from ground spices (cloves, cumin, marjoram, mustard seed, oregano, sage, and thyme).
(18) A second survey in March 1971 found 15 of 47 complete compounds tested in Lassa, Dille and Yuba villages had at least one peron with serologically demonstrable experience with LF virus.
(19) In this connection vegetables (beet Bordeaux, turnip Petrovskaya, carrot Chantanet, dill, radish Virovsky white) and wheat (variety Sonora) were cultivated during the lunar light-dark cycle (i. e. 15 day light: 15 day dark).
(20) The authors present the results from the experiemental studies of choleretic action of the Bulgarian dill oil, produced by the firm "Bulgarian Rose" from the crop of 1970, on white rats.