(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).
Telephony
Definition:
(n.) The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as with the telephone.
Example Sentences:
(1) While robust discussions are under way across the nation, in Congress, and at the White House, the question for this court is whether the government's bulk telephony metadata program is lawful.
(2) The bulk telephony metadata collection programme represents the government's counter-punch: connecting fragmented and fleeting communications to re-construct and eliminate al-Qaida's terror network.” The ACLU case against the NSA was dismissed primarily on the grounds that bulk collection was authorised under existing laws allowing “relevant” data collection to be authorised by secret US courts.
(3) The compression technique is a variation of the Consultive Committee on International Telephony and Telegraphy Joint Photograph Experts Group compression that suppresses the blocking of the discrete cosine transform except in areas of very high contrast.
(4) Skype, meanwhile, will today announce that it has created a version of its popular free internet telephony service for Nokia's Symbian operating system, which is already used by more than 200m mobile phones worldwide.
(5) We recommend that legislation should be enacted that terminates the storage of bulk telephony meta-data by the government under section 215, and transitions as soon as reasonably possible to a system in which such meta-data is held instead either by private providers or by a private third party.
(6) Their current plans aim to do away with bulk collection of telephony metadata, and fix some of the loopholes associated with internet bulk collection.
(7) In the Patriot Act telephony metadata fiasco, legal formalism completely disabled both lawyers and judges: they were blessing a program that had become unrecognizable as consistent with constitutional protection of privacy – anyone who read Edward Snowden's documents soon knew that, and the legal world should have known it sooner.
(8) video-telephony for the inter-personal communication of hearing impaired people).
(9) Tang said that the concern was whether a price war might ensue that will impact the profitability of the "triple-play" market – customers who take a mix of products such as TV, broadband and telephony from one provider.
(10) If they do, we are in for a dramatic erosion of constitutional privacy protections in the coming years – all thanks to the same kind of old-school legal approach that allowed National Security Agency lawyers to justify mass telephony meta-data surveillance.
(11) As well as attracting new users, Sky has been trying to persuade its existing customers to expand the number of its products they take to include home telephony and broadband.
(12) We have already seen how technical legalism allowed well-intentioned NSA lawyers and conscientious judges of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to approve pervasive telephony surveillance because it involved "metadata".
(13) BT's move to challenge Sky on live football comes several years after the satellite broadcaster began moving into the telecoms giant's own core businesses of telephony and broadband.
(14) As people increasingly use services like Skype and other internet telephony services, Twitter and Facebook to communicate, advocates fear the bill is a land grab that would give US authorities unprecedented access to private information while removing a citizen's legal protection.
(15) Mulcaire also pleaded guilty to a further five counts of unlawful interception of communications under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) 2000, a more recent law brought in to recognise technological advances in telephony and the internet.
(16) "Email and mobile telephony have transformed the tenor of our lives … But we still only vote for the government once every four years or so," noted Bazalgette sadly.
(17) But Apple's products not only came to dominate their rivals, they redefined large areas of three entire industries: music, mobile telephony and personal computing.
(18) Some 2.3m customers now take a "triple play" package of TV, broadband and telephony.
(19) Thus, plaintiffs have a substantial likelihood of showing that their privacy interests outweigh the government’s interest in collecting and analysing bulk telephony metadata and therefore the NSA’s bulk collection program is indeed an unreasonable search under the fourth amendment.
(20) It would be in my view a net positive if the telephony metadata aspect” were repealed, Medine said, but “215 is broader.