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dial-up

dial-up adjective: requiring a telephone number to be dialed.

Adjective

dial-up (not comparable)

  1. Requiring a telephone number to be dialed.
    • dial-up networking
    • In dial-up networking, both your PC and the remote system run network-protocol (called TCP/IP) software. When your PC dials up and sets up a communication path, the network protocols exchange data packets over that dial-up connection.2004, Naba Barkakati, “Setting Up Dial-Up Networking”, in Red Hat Fedora Linux 2 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 285

Noun

dial-up (plural dial-ups)

  1. A network connection that requires a telephone number to be dialed.

dial-up meaning in Tamil

dial-up in Tamil

அழைப்புச்சேவை

Forms of dial-up

Adjective
alternative formdialup
Noun
pluraldial-ups

Questions about dial-up

What does dial-up mean?
Dial-up means requiring a telephone number to be dialed.
What is dial-up in Tamil?
Dial-up in Tamil is அழைப்புச்சேவை. See Dial-up meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dial-up?
Dial-up can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near dial-up in the dictionary

  1. dial-around
  2. dial-in
  3. dial-in time
  4. dial-in times
  5. dial-ins
  6. dial-up
  7. dial-ups
  8. dial.
  9. dialability
  10. dialable
  11. dialane

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dial-up (page history and authors); dial-up (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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