What's the difference between device and phonograph?

Device


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
  • (n.) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
  • (n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance.
  • (n.) Improperly, an heraldic bearing.
  • (n.) Anything fancifully conceived.
  • (n.) A spectacle or show.
  • (n.) Opinion; decision.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
  • (2) The reason for the rise in Android's market share on both sides of the Atlantic is the increased number of devices that use the software.
  • (3) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
  • (4) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
  • (5) Good fixation was obtained in 4 cases using Steffee's devices.
  • (6) The image was altered in the expected way, which means that the device is suitable for investigating the possibilities of different filters to improve the diagnostic ability.
  • (7) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
  • (8) A device allowing pressure to be applied to a local skin site where the skin blood flow is followed using laser Doppler flowmetry is described.
  • (9) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
  • (10) The Nd-Yag-Laser seems to be a useful device in transsphenoidal surgery due to its potent coagulation effect and comfortable handling.
  • (11) However, localizing a functional region with PET has been severely limited by the poor resolving properties of PET devices.
  • (12) The devices worked as well on postphlebitic legs as on normal ones.
  • (13) Ten patients have undergone abdominal proctocolectomy with the formation of an ileal reservoir anastomosed onto the anal canal using a stapling device.
  • (14) The lack of pedestrian crossing devices, crosswalks, or sidewalks, however, was not associated with an increased risk.
  • (15) He added that 45% of traffic to Local World's extensive portfolio of websites – 76 newspaper sites, 26 This is … sites and 400 hyper local sites – comes from mobile devices.
  • (16) The latter animals were raised in an automated feeding device (Autosow) with an artificial diet simulating the nutritional composition of sow milk.
  • (17) "Android’s gain came mainly at the expense of BlackBerry, which saw its global smartphone share dip from 4 percent to 1 percent in the past year due to a weak line-up of BB10 devices," said Strategy Analytics' senior analyst Scott Bicheno.
  • (18) The authors consider that this device increases safety during this potentially hazardous procedure by eliminating the flammable polyvinyl chloride endotracheal tube and cottonoid packings most frequently used during this procedure.
  • (19) A training device is used in conjunction with an exercise program to teach muscle control for retention of a mandibular denture.
  • (20) We also used an optical device to stabilize images of the real world upon the retina.

Phonograph


Definition:

  • (n.) A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.
  • (n.) An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration, and reproduce the sound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have recently developed a phonographic transducer which is compliance-matched to the maternal abdomen.
  • (2) 19 normal children were grouped into four age populations according to electroglotto- and phonographic analysis.
  • (3) The result of our study showed that alexia in Chinese ideographic language differs from alexia in western phonographic languages.
  • (4) Some practitioners were accused of Satanism by Christian pressure groups and conspiracy theorists, partly thanks to the popularity of occultist Aleister Crowley, who suggested in a 1913 book that would-be magicians train by listening “to phonograph records reversed”.
  • (5) Tony Wadsworth, former head of EMI and now chairman of the British Phonographic Industry, said: "It's not healthy to have a few large companies having all the hits."
  • (6) Copyright owners, largely represented by the Motion Picture Association and the British Phonographic Industry, support the act's attempt to crack down on piracy but have become discouraged at its protracted and slow progress.
  • (7) The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry has yet to release a formal statement on its reported plans.
  • (8) Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the British Phonographic Industry, which represents the music groups in the UK, said: "The high court today ruled that The Pirate Bay is illegal.
  • (9) Charges against the site, which allows web users to access music, movies and TV shows without paying for them and claimed 22 million users during February, were brought by a consortium of media, film and music companies led by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.
  • (10) He said the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) was attacked on 19-20 September 2010, though the DDoS did not shut the site down.
  • (11) The Pirate Bay is not just a service that aggregates illegal torrents and points to filesharing sites and individuals, it is a politicised movement that delights in provoking the likes of the Motion Picture Association of America and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.
  • (12) The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the UK music industry trade body, said BT and TalkTalk's legal challenge against the act is "misconceived and will fail".
  • (13) Innovation in a digital economy is much more Pirate Bay than it is Phonographic Industry.
  • (14) The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) says only 2m SACDs were sold last year, compared to 1.7bn CDs.
  • (15) But Geoff Taylor, the chief executive of the British Phonographic Industry, the music trade body that lobbied on behalf of the act's anti-piracy measures, said: "The BPI continues to believe that measures to prevent access to illegal websites are essential if Britain's creative and technology sectors are to fulfil their growth potential.
  • (16) Pirate Bay logo John Kennedy, chairman and chief executive of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, said: "We're very pleased at the verdict of what was a very important case for us.
  • (17) From the phonographic analysis of the cardiac sounds with simultaneous recording of apexcardiogram or echocardiogram, the production mechanism of the diastolic click was discussed.
  • (18) Japan is the second biggest music market in the world after the US, with a 22% global share, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.
  • (19) Our special recording system permitted exact phonographic registration of the verbal stimulus and reaction as well as of the PGR.
  • (20) The articulation-phonographic (oscillographic) method of registration based on the transformation of acoustic fluctuations into an electrical signal was used for the determination of a character and degree of speech disturbances following brain strokes.