What's the difference between dial and gang?

Dial


Definition:

  • (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.

Gang


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To go; to walk.
  • (v. i.) A going; a course.
  • (v. i.) A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves.
  • (v. i.) A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang of saws, or of plows.
  • (v. i.) A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays.
  • (v. i.) The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We ganged up against the tweed-suited, pipe-smoking brigade.
  • (2) There were members of the smuggling gang on the ship with walkie-talkies.
  • (3) In June, a notorious elephant poacher led a gang of bandits in an attack on the Okapi wildlife reserve in DRC, killing seven people.
  • (4) A focus on preventing children from joining gangs in the first place, as well as on offering gang members the access to education and employment that they have been lacking is more likely to be effective.
  • (5) He praised the obvious disgust of local people in parts of south and west Manchester, where gang problems have been concentrated.
  • (6) In Britain you have all the things we have here – gangs, poverty, racism.
  • (7) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Our political leaders can’t bear to face the truth’: Camila Batmanghelidjh spoke to the Guardian’s Patrick Butler in July “So you can understand that I am taken aback by allegations which now present themselves, about which I knew nothing.” Kids Company, set up by the charismatic Batmanghelidjh in 1996, was known to have the firm support of David Cameron for its work on gang violence and disadvantaged children.
  • (9) As the gangs fragmented, many increasingly focused on extortion, kidnapping and human trafficking.
  • (10) This is how powerful a hold it has over them.” Mossino, who works with refugees and asylum seekers as well as victims of trafficking, says that in the past decade the trade in Nigerian women has become a hugely profitable and ruthless criminal industry, controlled largely by Nigerian gangs that took root in Italy in the 1980s.
  • (11) Experts and activists have said the murder bore all the hallmarks of Egypt’s notorious secret service, but Egyptian officials have consistently put forward alternative theories, including that Regeni was killed by a criminal gang and that his death was an isolated incident.
  • (12) Senior government sources have confirmed the budget razor gang has the fuel tax credit (formerly known as the diesel fuel rebate) “firmly in its sights” – a scheme that rebates miners and farmers and others for the off-road use of diesel.
  • (13) Gang members were also involved in a handful of more serious incidents including the shooting incident in Birmingham.
  • (14) "We hope all relevant parties will do that which benefits peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, hope all sides will respond calmly and avoid exacerbating the situation," ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in the statement.
  • (15) "These are delicate times and we take a positive role," Yi Gang, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, told the Guardian today.
  • (16) The Brinks Mat gang, some with guns, surprised six security staff as they started the Saturday shift between 6.30am and 8.15am at the warehouse, on the Heathrow industrial estate at Hounslow.
  • (17) The Guardian recently revealed that the Danish government had been forced, on the eve of the Copenhagen summit , to rush through an emergency law making it impossible for criminal gangs to reclaim huge amounts of VAT on fraudulent trades they were making on Europe's various carbon exchanges.
  • (18) In August, the capital came to a standstill as terrified workers were forced to stay home after gang leaders orchestrated a forced public transport boycott by killing a dozen bus drivers in response to a crackdown by authorities against organised crime.
  • (19) The last big one was only in August this year, when seven young people were beaten up by a gang of 40 Nazis."
  • (20) They do not operate as a cohesive gang or a whipped party-within-a-party – not yet, anyway.

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