What's the difference between dial and needle?

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.

Needle


Definition:

  • (n.) A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing.
  • (n.) See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic.
  • (n.) A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.
  • (n.) One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus.
  • (n.) Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
  • (v. t.) To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals.
  • (v. i.) To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Needle acupuncture did, however, increase the pain threshold compared with the initial value (alpha = 0.1%).
  • (2) The fine needle aspiration cytology features of twelve peripherally located bronchioloalveolar cell carcinomas of the lung diagnosed by fine needle aspiration biopsy are described.
  • (3) Needle insertion close to the midline is the safest technique.
  • (4) The intra cellular free amino acid concentrations of skeletal muscle were determined in tissue specimens obtained before operation and on the third postoperative day using a percutaneous needle biopsy technique.
  • (5) The results showed the kind of needling sensation while acupuncture had close relation with the appearance of PSM and the acupuncture effect.
  • (6) Use 3-ml Luer-Lok syringes and 30-gauge needles and thread the needle carefully into the vessel while using slow and steady injection with light pressure.
  • (7) US guidance facilitated placement of a 22-gauge needle by means of a subxyphoid or transthoracic approach.
  • (8) These findings in a patient with acute leukaemia are strongly suspicious of fungal infection, and percutaneous fine-needle aspiration under ultrasound or computed tomography-guidance is indicated.
  • (9) Nuclear DNA distribution in fine-needle specimens from 112 breast carcinomas and 45 prostatic tumours was studied.
  • (10) Recent reports have indicated the usefulness of nuclear grooves (clefts or notches) as an additional criterion for the diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma in fine needle aspirates; most of these studies were carried out on alcohol-fixed material stained with the Papanicolaou stain or with hematoxylin and eosin, which yield good nuclear details.
  • (11) The retreating rate constants deduced from the dissolution results were well coincident with the values directly determined by the needle penetration method, suggesting good applicability of the proposed equation.
  • (12) One to 6 needles were used on each occasion in a maximum of 3 treatments.
  • (13) Using a special electromyographic hypodermic needle, we injected botulinum A toxin into one of the vocal folds of two patients with severe spasmodic dysphonia.
  • (14) One hundred thirty-two of 397 consecutive percutaneous fine needle aspirations done at the University of Virginia between January, 1979, and December, 1984, for pulmonary lesions showed no evidence of cancer on cytological examination.
  • (15) The method can be successfully applied to richly cellular needle aspirates.
  • (16) During the surgery for the purpose of removal of the tumor, needle type-O2 sensors were inserted into femoral artery and in brain tumor to measure PaO2 and intratumoral O2 pressure.
  • (17) Consequently the puncture site becomes small (a balloon-catheter may be introduced through a 16 G catheter needle) allowing punctures proximal to lesions (e.g.
  • (18) The results of 1245 amniocenteses performed by the "free hand needle" technique and ultrasonic control are discussed.
  • (19) Various methods have so far been used to treat pneumothorax, including rest, needle exsufflation and blind drainage.
  • (20) This article demonstrates the importance of the use of immunocytochemical methods on fine-needle aspirates to diagnose metastases to the breast.