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PRONUNCIATION OF DIAL DOWN

dial down play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIAL DOWN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dial down is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb dial down in English.

WHAT DOES DIAL DOWN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of dial down in the English dictionary

The definition of dial down in the dictionary is to reduce or become reduced.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DIAL DOWN

PRESENT

Present
I dial down
you dial down
he/she/it dials down
we dial down
you dial down
they dial down
Present continuous
I am dialing down
you are dialing down
he/she/it is dialing down
we are dialing down
you are dialing down
they are dialing down
Present perfect
I have dialed down
you have dialed down
he/she/it has dialed down
we have dialed down
you have dialed down
they have dialed down
Present perfect continuous
I have been dialing down
you have been dialing down
he/she/it has been dialing down
we have been dialing down
you have been dialing down
they have been dialing down
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I dialed down
you dialed down
he/she/it dialed down
we dialed down
you dialed down
they dialed down
Past continuous
I was dialing down
you were dialing down
he/she/it was dialing down
we were dialing down
you were dialing down
they were dialing down
Past perfect
I had dialed down
you had dialed down
he/she/it had dialed down
we had dialed down
you had dialed down
they had dialed down
Past perfect continuous
I had been dialing down
you had been dialing down
he/she/it had been dialing down
we had been dialing down
you had been dialing down
they had been dialing down
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will dial down
you will dial down
he/she/it will dial down
we will dial down
you will dial down
they will dial down
Future continuous
I will be dialing down
you will be dialing down
he/she/it will be dialing down
we will be dialing down
you will be dialing down
they will be dialing down
Future perfect
I will have dialed down
you will have dialed down
he/she/it will have dialed down
we will have dialed down
you will have dialed down
they will have dialed down
Future perfect continuous
I will have been dialing down
you will have been dialing down
he/she/it will have been dialing down
we will have been dialing down
you will have been dialing down
they will have been dialing down
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would dial down
you would dial down
he/she/it would dial down
we would dial down
you would dial down
they would dial down
Conditional continuous
I would be dialing down
you would be dialing down
he/she/it would be dialing down
we would be dialing down
you would be dialing down
they would be dialing down
Conditional perfect
I would have dial down
you would have dial down
he/she/it would have dial down
we would have dial down
you would have dial down
they would have dial down
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been dialing down
you would have been dialing down
he/she/it would have been dialing down
we would have been dialing down
you would have been dialing down
they would have been dialing down
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you dial down
we let´s dial down
you dial down
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to dial down
Past participle
dialed down
Present Participle
dialing down
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIAL DOWN

dial
dial code
dial gauge
dial tone
dial-up
dial.
dialect
dialect atlas
dialect coach
dialect geographer
dialect geography
dialect survey
dialectal
dialectally
dialectic
dialectical
dialectical materialism
dialectical materialist
dialectically
dialectician

WORDS THAT END LIKE DIAL DOWN

back down
break down
bring the house down
cut down
down
get down
go down
hands down
hold down
lay down
put down
ride down
sit down
step down
take down
turn down
up and down
upside down
when the chips are down
wind down
write down

Synonyms and antonyms of dial down in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dial down» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DIAL DOWN

Find out the translation of dial down to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dial down from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dial down» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

拨下来
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dial hacia abajo
570 millions of speakers

English

dial down
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नीचे डायल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اطلب أسفل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

набрать вниз
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

discar para baixo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ডায়াল ডাউন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

composer bas
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dail turun
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Rad nach unten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ダウンダイヤル
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

다이얼을 아래로
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nelpon mudhun
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

quay xuống
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கீழே அழுத்துங்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डायल डाउन करा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Çevir
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

quadrante in basso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wybierania w dół
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

набрати вниз
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dial jos
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κλήση προς τα κάτω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skakel af
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ratten nedåt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ringe ned
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dial down

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIAL DOWN»

The term «dial down» is normally little used and occupies the 114.411 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DIAL DOWN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «dial down» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «dial down» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dial down

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIAL DOWN»

Discover the use of dial down in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dial down and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Handbook of Contemporary Clinical Hypnosis: Theory and ...
To effect pain relief they are simply asked to turn the dial down! Some authorities (e.g. Heap & Aravind, 2002) indicate that paradoxical injunction can be useful for pain patients and in this, instead of asking the patient to turn the pain down, ...
Les Brann, Jacky Owens, Ann Williamson, 2011
2
Drown Radio-Vision and Homo-Vibra Ray Instruments and Their Use
Begin moving the ninth dial down until a reaction is registered. If 9 registers on the ninth dial, 10 and 10 on the seventh and eighth dials (10 and 10 equaling 20) , the registration would read 1.020 and 9, or 1.029 specific gravity. If the specific ...
Ruth B. Drown, 1998
3
Dictionary of Jamaican English
[ Three of us are here with our father but one at Mountainside lives with Mr /?.]. DOWN-COTTON sb dial; <down sb + cotton. A small wild shrub somewhat resembling the cotton bush and producing a kind of down. (Hibiscus, perh H. clypeatus or ...
Frederic Gomes Cassidy, Robert Brock Le Page, 2002
4
Simulations and Games for Transition and Change
3 - Align next dial [at this point the adjacent dial cannot be aligned] 5. IF token in last played dial and dial is no. 5 -1 - Move next token 6. IF token NOT in last dial played IF dial NOT aligned down 4 - Align dial down. IF dial aligned [is other than  ...
Danny Saunders, Nina Smalley, 2000
5
The Retirement Plan Solution: The Reinvention of Defined ...
... fund with a chunk of something riskier (for example, 80 percent glide path and 20 percent equities, to turn the risk dial up) or something less risky (for example, 70 percent glide path and 30 percent fixed income, to turn the risk dial down).
Don Ezra, Bob Collie, Matthew X. Smith, 2009
6
Watch Repair for Beginners: An Illustrated How-to-Guide for ...
Wrist watchesare adjusted preferably todialup, dial down, andpendant down.For greater precision, twelve down may be added. Pocket watches are adjusted to dial up,dial down, and pendant up. Railroad grades are adjusted to dial up, dial ...
Harold C. Kelly, 2013
7
A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words: Obsolete ...
DOWN-HEARKEN. See Doumarg. DOWNHEARTED. Sad; melancholy. Var. dial. DOWN-HOUSE. The back-kitchen. North. DOWNLYING. A lying in. Var. dial. DOWN O-CANNOT. When one has power, but wants the will to do anything. Cumb.
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1865
8
Fitness!
See yourself turning that dial down, v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y, a little bit at a time. (It is like lowering the brightness of an electric light fixture, turning the rheostat all the way down to dim.) Feel your body relaxing more and more as you turn it down. 5.
Karen Mazzeo, Lauren Mangili, 2012
9
Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924
Dial manoeuvres "creepy . . . behold" — / | OB manosvers [sic] "creepy . . . behold, "/ 19. Dial vermilion | OB vermillion [sic] 21—22 Dial down";/ recognized | OB down ,"/ recognized 29—30. Dial company";/ and | OB company;"/ and 37—38.
Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze, 2002
10
Professional Palm OS Programming
If the current form lacks a scroll bar, rotating the Jog Dial up generates a keyDown event containing a vchrPageUp character, and rotating the Jog Dial down generates a keyDown event containing a vchrPageDown character. Pressing the ...
Lonnon R. Foster, Glenn Bachmann, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIAL DOWN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dial down is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Beating the Islamic State Won't Fix Iraq | Foreign Policy
If the world hopes to dial down this kind of local and regional sectarian-based violence, there needs to be a strategy — by both international ... «Foreign Policy, Jul 15»
2
China funds target commodities after slump in equities | Reuters
... sentiment, spurring businesses exposed to product demand from Europe to dial down demand expectations over the near to medium term. «Reuters UK, Jul 15»
3
Guitar Hero Live to unveil new features at SDCC | This Is Xbox
Dial Down – Temporarily reduces note frequency on your highway, giving you a breather during hectic solos but preserving your multiplier. «ThisisXbox, Jul 15»
4
China funds target commodities after slump in equities
... sentiment, spurring businesses exposed to product demand from Europe to dial down demand expectations over the near to medium term. «Reuters, Jul 15»
5
In France, Princes Feud Over a Kingdom You've Never Heard Of - WSJ
As he lays claim to the crown, Mr. Parasiliti says he wants to dial down pomp and focus on the kingdom's human rights arm, Auspice Stella, ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
6
Don't be a dipstick | Opinion | NUVO News | Indianapolis, IN
Dial down the shrill. There are bats hitting my house. I am not advocating racism, discrimination or slavery. I am not saying that anything the ... «NUVO Newsweekly, Jul 15»
7
Dinosaur Game Ark: Survival Evolved Tops 1 Million Sold in Early …
... arrived for OS X and Linux on July 1, it's not surprising to hear that PC sales are on the uptick, nor are they likely to dial down at any point in the near future. «Game Rant, Jul 15»
8
Marriage success tips: 9 signs of couples in introvert-extrovert …
"Introverts, who are more sensitive to external stimulation, are always ready to dial down the lights and action -- think dark movie theatre or ... «Pulse Nigeria, Jul 15»
9
Terror suspects and scare campaigns - The Korea Herald
... aren't picked up as a result of citizen involvement anyway ― authorities should dial down the hysteria about the potential for terrorist attacks. «The Korea Herald, Jul 15»
10
How to Fight Stress and Burnout on the Cheap | Alternet
When we're burning out, we need relaxation to help us dial down so that we feel replenished, at ease, and in a place to begin again. «AlterNet, Jul 15»

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