direct-dial
直拨,直拨电话,直接拨号,直拨式
Definitions
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- : to make a telephone call outside the local area without the assistance of an operator.
- 1
- : being a telephone or telephone system enabling long-distance calls to be direct-dialed.
- : of or relating to direct dialing.
Examples
In 2009, Lee Daniels announced that he would direct Selma and that Liam Neeson would play President Lyndon Johnson.
If someone wants to ensure a direct and secure connection, no entity, whether a hotel or otherwise, should be able to block it.
The twang we hear as emblematic of white country music is actually the direct descendant of black folk music banjo.
Idiocies multiply in direct proportion to the accumulating legal rigidities.
Today they are more direct, especially in many conflict regions of the world.
Each religion claims that its own Bible is the direct revelation of God, and is the only true Bible teaching the only true faith.
The steamboat of 1809 and the steam locomotive of 1830 were the direct result of what had gone before.
It was a direct lie to tell the Austrian commander that an armistice had been arranged and the bridge ceded to the French.
I suppose that to most men such a warning would be a direct incitement to make the attempt.
Even the policeman who is paid to direct you, replies to your inquiry with the shortest and gruffest monosyllable that will do.