different between dial vs vote

English

Etymology

The original meaning was 'sundial' and/or 'clock dial'; from Middle English diall, from Middle French dyal, from Latin di?lis (“daily, concerning the day”), because of its use in telling the time of day, from Latin di?s (“day”). Compare Spanish dial and día (“day”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?da???/
• Rhymes: -a??l
• Hyphenation: di?al

Noun

dial (plural dials)

1. A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).

2. A clock face.
3. A sundial.
4. A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.

5. A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called.

6. (Britain, Australia, slang) A person's face. [from 19th c.]
   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 137:

     Old Mona Lisa would have looked like a sour lemon beside Angel Day on the rare days she put a smile on her dial, laughing with her friends when some new man was in town.

7. A miner's compass.

Translations

Verb

dial (third-person singular simple present dials, present participle (US) dialing or dialling, simple past and past participle (US) dialed or dialled)

1. (transitive) To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.

2. (transitive) To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.

3. (intransitive) To use a dial or a telephone.

Usage notes

• Dialing and dialed are more common in the US. Dialling and dialled are more common elsewhere.

Derived terms

Related terms

• dial in
• dial tone

Translations

Anagrams

• Dail, Dali, Dalí, dali, laid

Spanish

Noun

dial m (plural diales)

1. dial

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh dial, from Old Welsh digal, from Proto-Brythonic *di?al, from Proto-Celtic *d?-gal?. Cognate with Cornish dyal and Old Irish dígal.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?d?.al/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?di?.al/, /?di.al/

Noun

dial m (plural dialau or dialon)

1. revenge

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “dial”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Etymology

From Latin v?tum, a form of vove? (“I vow”) (cognate with Ancient Greek ??????? (eúkhomai, “to vow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h?wog??-. The word is thus a doublet of vow.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /vo?t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

vote (plural votes)

1. a formalized choice on legally relevant measures such as employment or appointment to office or a proceeding about a legal dispute.

2. an act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot
   • Directive (EU) 2017/828 amending Directive 2007/36/EC, recital 10:

3. (obsolete) an ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer
   • 1633, Philip Massinger, “The Guardian”, in Three New Playes; viz. The Bashful Lover, The Guardian, The Very Woman. As They have been Often Acted at the Private-House in Black-Friers, by His Late Majesties Servants, with Great Applause, London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Prince's Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, published 1655, OCLC 15553475; republished as “The Guardian. A Comical History. As It hath been Often Acted at the Private-House in Black-Friars, by His Late Majesty's Servants, with Great Applause, 1655.”, in Thomas Coxeter, editor, The Works of Philip Massinger. Volume the Fourth. Containing, The Guardian. A Very Woman. The Old Law. The City Madam. And Poems on Several Occasions, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Davies, in Russel-street, Covent-Garden, 1761, OCLC 6847259, Act V, scene i, page 71:

     Jol[ante]. In you, Sir, / I live; and when, or by the Cour?e of Nature, / Or Violence you mu?t fall, the End of my / Devotions is, that one and the ?ame Hour / May make us fit for Heaven. // Server. I join with you / In my votes that way: […]

4. (obsolete) a formalized petition or request
5. (obsolete) any judgment of intellect leading to a formal opinion, a point of view
6. any judgment of intellect leading not only to a formal opinion but also to a particular choice in a legally relevant measure, a point of view as published

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

vote (third-person singular simple present votes, present participle voting, simple past and past participle voted)

1. (intransitive) to cast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in an election
2. (transitive) to choose or grant by means of a vote, or by general consent

Hyponyms

• vote in
• vote out
• vote down

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• elect
• nominate

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: vot
  • ? Rotokas: votu

Further reading

• vote and voting in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Voting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• to've, veto

Asturian

Verb

vote

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of votar

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English vote. Doublet of vœu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?t/
• Homophones: votent, votes
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

vote m (plural votes)

1. vote

Derived terms

• vote à main levée

Related terms

• votant

Verb

vote

1. inflection of voter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “vote” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• veto, véto

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?o?.te/, [?u?o?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vo.te/, [?v??t??]

Participle

v?te

1. vocative masculine singular of v?tus

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English vote, from Latin v?tum, from vove?, vov?re (“vow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eweg??-.

Noun

vote m (plural votes)

1. (Jersey) vote

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?v?.t??i/

Verb

vote

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of votar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of votar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of votar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of votar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bote/, [?bo.t?e]

Verb

vote

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of votar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of votar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of votar.