dial up
phrasal verbdial up | dial something up
- to connect to a computer system using a phone line
- Back then, you still had to dial up to the internet at 5p a minute.
- I tried to dial up a connection.
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dial something up
- to order something by phone, to be delivered immediately
- If I'm too tired to cook, I just dial up a pizza.
- to increase the noise, heat, etc. produced by a piece of equipment by moving its controls
- Dial up the volume.
- (informal) to increase the amount, degree or power of a quality
- She gradually dialled up the pressure on the rest of the team.