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adjective

• actively or fully engaged or occupied

adjective satellite

• overcrowded or cluttered with detail

• intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner

• crowded with or characterized by much activity

• (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line)

verb

• keep busy with

28%10 An obsolete term for an obsolete term for a deathbed
noun

• minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers

• bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death

27%8Obsolete method of selecting digits on a phone
verb

• To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.

• To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.

• To use a dial or a telephone.

noun

• The act by which a number is dialed.

• The art of constructing dials; the science of measuring time by dials.

• A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor; the use of a miner's dial.

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New York Times07 Nov 2022 Down 35
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