Meaning

2 senses

  1. A disk with finger holes, used to enter numbers by rotating the disk forward and letting it slide back

    Wählscheibe, Drehscheibe

  2. A telephone with such a disk

    Wählscheibentelefon, Drehscheibentelefon, Drehtelefon

Examples

3 sentences

  1. This phone has a rotary dial.

    deDieses Telefon hat eine Wählscheibe. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. Tom has a rotary dial phone.

    deTom hat ein Wählscheibentelefon. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  3. Do you remember that we had a phone with a rotary dial?

    ruПомнишь, у нас был дисковый телефон? — odexed

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Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 2
disk with finger holes:
kind of telephone:

Forms

plural: rotary dials

Synonyms

1 synonyms
rotary phone

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
rotrotarotaryrotateC1rotationrote

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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