(n.) An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical.
(n.) The graduated face of a timepiece, on which the time of day is shown by pointers or hands.
(n.) A miner's compass.
(v. t.) To measure with a dial.
(v. t.) To survey with a dial.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a 1-stage random-digit dial telephone survey, we estimated the number of pet dogs and cats and cancer case ascertainment in the principal catchment area of an animal tumor registry in Indiana, the Purdue Comparative Oncology Program (PCOP).
(2) Treatment of Xenopus laevis membranes with the 2',3'-dialdehyde of GTP (dial GTP) drastically inhibits their adenylyl cyclase activity.
(3) Somebody rashly asked if he listened to the recently reprieved 6 Music – no – or even Radio 1, which he only caught, he said, when turning the dial between Radios 3 and 4.
(4) For the embattled people of Ali Akbar Dial, a collection of disappearing villages on the southern tip of the island in Bangladesh , the distant trees serve as a bittersweet reminder of what they have lost and a warning of what is come.
(5) This enabled the technologist to dial in each patient's identification number, which then appeared on every frame of the 35-mm film used.
(6) Controls were identified by random-digit dialing and from lists of Medicare recipients.
(7) Dial-A-Flo has no advantage over a standard administration set alone, and should not be used for controlled administration of cardiac drugs.
(8) The effects of barrier and spermicidal methods of contraception on cervical cancer risk were examined by studying 479 cases of histologically confirmed invasive cervical cancer cases and 788 random digit dialing controls.
(9) During trials to increase temperature, subjects were shown a dial indicating temperature of an index finger and were instructed to try to warm their hands.
(10) The 4536 controls were women of similar ages selected by random dialing of households with telephones in the same eight areas.
(11) A factorial design was used to determine the influence of carrier-gas helium concentration, carrier-gas flow rate and vaporizer dial setting on the output of four vaporizers: Ohio Calibrated Enflurane, Ohio Calibrated Isoflurane, Ohmeda Isotec 4, and Dräger Vapor 19.1 Isoflurane.
(12) The use of digital reader boards, displayed in watts rather than an arbitrary dial setting is one example.
(13) The controls were 4676 women selected by random-digit dialing of the population of each area covered by a registry.
(14) Output was converted to % of baseline so that different dial settings could be compared.
(15) Interviews with 478 controls of the same age, identified through telephone random-digit dialing, were conducted twice during the same time period.
(16) Controls were selected by random digit dialing to approximate the case distribution by age, sex, and telephone exchange area.
(17) Control subjects were identified by random-digit dialing from these same regions and were frequency-matched to men with lymphoma by age.
(18) In rabbits anaesthetized with Dial ACh has been collected from the surface of the cerebral cortex during stimulation of the visual pathways.2.
(19) Behind the scenes, shareholders did encourage Reckitt to dial down Becht's rewards in 2007.
(20) A spring-loaded dial indicator produces results that are accurate, precise and reproducible.
Finger
Definition:
(n.) One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb.
(n.) Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (Mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion.
(n.) The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard.
(n.) Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
(v. t.) To touch with the fingers; to handle; to meddle with.
(v. t.) To touch lightly; to toy with.
(v. t.) To perform on an instrument of music.
(v. t.) To mark the notes of (a piece of music) so as to guide the fingers in playing.
(v. t.) To take thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin.
(v. t.) To execute, as any delicate work.
(v. i.) To use the fingers in playing on an instrument.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(2) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
(3) The pineal of certain lizards possesses a finger-like projection that extends toward the parietal eye.
(4) Seventy-five hands showed normal distal latency, in which cases, however, the SNCV of the ring finger was always outside the normal range, while the SNCVs of the thumb, index and middle fingers were abnormal in 64%, 80% and 92% of cases respectively.
(5) Furthermore, it involved mixed clinical and histological changes of epidermal nevus from fingers to elbow.
(6) Although systemic fibrinolysis with streptokinase was not initiated until eight weeks after the accident, a partial restitution of the markedly reduced macro- and microcirculation in the fingers was possible.
(7) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(8) MRPs were larger preceding foot movements than preceding finger movements, their onset being earlier also.
(9) In the 18 month-old a more mature grasp and forearm combination, mainly palmar grasp with or without stablizing index finger + overpronated forearm, was found.
(10) When Fox woke up one morning in 1990 and noticed his little finger shaking, he thought it was a side effect of a hangover.
(11) A 63-year-old man, with a Waldenström's disease discovered by cryoglobulinemia (ischemic lesions of fingers) was quickly aggravating (hyperviscosity syndrome) under treatment by chlorambucil in a dosage of 8 mg daily.
(12) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
(13) These preliminary results suggest that finger stick blood samples, collected on filter paper, could be used for FTA-ABS testing of remote rural populations--such as in areas where yaws is endemic.
(14) The three-dimensional solution structure of a zinc finger nucleic acid binding motif has been determined by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
(15) The recovery of power grip and finger grip strength is complete in most patients by two months.
(16) A yeast protein, Sui3, isolated as an extragenic suppressor of his4 initiation codon mutations, exhibits extensive sequence identity with human eIF-2 beta, especially in the polylysine and zinc finger domains, thereby reinforcing the view that these elements are important for function.
(17) Both acquired defects were covered by two different cross-finger flap techniques, despite extensive scarring of the adjacent finger.
(18) Our team of reporters have spent the last week on an intensive bikram yoga course in order to get themselves into the rather awkward position of having their ears to the ground, their eyes to the skies and their fingers on the pulse.
(19) Entrapment of the ring finger flexor digitorum in the ulna following fracture of both forearm bones is very rare.
(20) No, Did they invent sliding fingers across substances?