dialer

D2I1A1L1E1R1
UK/ˈdaɪələ(ɹ)/US/ˈdaɪ(ə)lɚ/

noun

A person or device that dials, as using a telephone.

“He treated his assistant as a voice-operated dialer.”

Similar
latcher
OriginEnglish dial ← Middle English diall ← Middle French dya →
Less commonScrabble 7
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Meanings

noundialer (plural dialers)

plural dialers · alternative dialler

  1. A person or device that dials, as using a telephone.

    He treated his assistant as a voice-operated dialer.

  2. businessA mining surveyor.

    […] let the dialler, with the same instrument he uses underground, run a north and south line on the surface, in any convenient part of the sett, marking the extremities by well-fixed points, […]

    1857, The Mining Magazine, page 128

    Synonyms: latcher

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA mining surveyor.

Similar
latcher
Also see
latcher

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dyew-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dyḗws
  3. Proto-Italic*djous
  4. Latindiēs
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  7. Latindiālis
  8. Middle Frenchdya
  9. Middle Englishdiall
  10. Englishdial
  11. Englishdialer

From dial + -er.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

derailredialrailedLeridaAdrielDarielDelairearlidlaired
Cite this entry
APA

dialer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dialer

MLA

“dialer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dialer. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dialer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dialer.

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