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resetting the dial

resetting the dial is the present participle and gerund of reset the dial.

Meaning of reset the dial

Verb

reset the dial (third-person singular simple present resets the dial, present participle resetting the dial, simple past and past participle reset the dial)

  1. (UK, idiomatic, often) To change something radically; to reform or revolutionize something.
    • While contemporary designers give us trends, Quant reset the dial on the way we get dressed. Under her influence, women rejected their parents’ vision of beauty and embraced their own.2021 October 28, Karen Dacre, “Miniskirt mayhem! Nine ways Mary Quant revolutionised women’s clothes – and lives”, in The Guardian

Questions about resetting the dial

What is resetting the dial the present participle and gerund of?
Resetting the dial is the present participle and gerund of reset the dial.

Words near resetting the dial in the dictionary

  1. resettable fuses
  2. resetted
  3. resetter
  4. resetters
  5. resetting
  6. resetting the dial
  7. resettings
  8. resettle
  9. resettled
  10. resettlement
  11. resettlements

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Adapted from Wiktionary: resetting the dial (page history and authors); reset the dial (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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