0 present participle of dial
1 the action of making a phone call, for example by pressing a series of buttons:
The person dialling is already fussed, because he cannot dial.
For patients aged 5 years and older, controls were randomly selected using sequential digit dialling and were matched to the patient by age group and county of residence.
Random digit dialling was used to select a sample of households within each state or territory.
Again, a random-digit dialling approach was used to select respondents.
Households were contacted randomly by modified random digit telephone dialling.
One control was selected for each case using forward/backward digit dialling from the case's home telephone number.
Controls were contacted using sequential digit dialling based on patients' phone numbers.
Two age-matched controls were selected for each patient by sequential digit dialling anchored to a case's telephone number.