Dialling meaning : To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial. To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone. To use a dial or a telephone. The act by which a number is dialed. The art of constructing dials; the science of measuring time by dials. 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; the use of a miner's dial.