(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.
Telephone
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance.
(v. t.) To convey or announce by telephone.
Example Sentences:
(1) The last 10 years have seen increasing use of telephone surveys in public health research.
(2) Specimen type, date of sampling, the sender's location and the reason for making the telephone enquiry were recorded.
(3) The data document the compliance of adolescent girls with telephone appointments and suggest that this technique may be a useful adjunct for monitoring patients requiring close medical follow-up.
(4) Ultimate nonsurvivors of ICU admission (36 per cent) had shorter out-of-hospital times, shorter travel distances, and increased interventional support, as assessed by the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System applied over the telephone and prior to departure at the referring hospital.
(5) Telephone follow-up was performed on surviving patients.
(6) Of the 83 telephone calls and 59 visits over a six-week period, approximately 60 percent were from females (52 percent of the clinic population), and 70 percnet were for new problems, with acute infection accounting for nearly one third of the contacts.
(7) In a surprise telephone call to a US congressional hearing on Thursday night, Chen repeated his request to go to the US with his family and asked to meet Clinton.
(8) We initiated a program of telephone CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) instruction provided by emergency dispatchers to increase the percentage of bystander-initiated CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
(9) A telephone reporting system was established for the medical staff.
(10) To determine whether electromagnetic fields emitted by VDTs are associated with an increased risk of spontaneous abortion, a cohort of female telephone operators who used VDTs at work was compared with a cohort of operators who did not use VDTs.
(11) Barack Obama and Hassan Rouhani held the first direct talks between American and Iranian leaders since the 1979 Islamic revolution, exchanging pleasantries in a 15-minute telephone call on Friday that raised the prospect of relief for Tehran from crippling economic sanctions.
(12) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
(13) It is also believed that senior Taliban inmates in Pakistan have been placed under a more liberal regime, such as being allowed to make telephone calls under supervision.
(14) 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).
(15) However caution must be used in interpreting that result, since subjects were allowed to adjust the telephone handset position to maximize the signal level in any given condition.
(16) Between 1981 and 1983, 29 States (includes the District of Columbia) conducted one-time telephone surveys.
(17) ARSENIC is a computerized system providing assistance for telephone consultation in poison centers.
(18) He has spoken at least twice by telephone to his family and received two foreign delegations.
(19) Families were interviewed by telephone using a questionnaire that contained structured and open-ended questions.
(20) During the latter phase, patients could receive computerized SMBG analysis on individual terminals connected to the telephone network (Minitel system).