What's the difference between telephone and wiretap?

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).

Wiretap


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is hence impossible to wiretap, intercept or crack the information transmitted through it,” Xinhua reported after Tuesday’s launch.
  • (2) In response to a question from the host, Jake Tapper, about allegations that the Russian ambassador “is a spy”, Rubio said: “It is not a mystery to anyone that virtually every embassy in Washington DC has some intelligence component associated with it.” Fact check: what did Trump's tweets about Obama's 'wiretaps' mean?
  • (3) November 6, 2012 And then there was that little matter earlier this month in which Trump sparked a firestorm by claiming on Twitter, without producing any evidence, that President Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.
  • (4) British intelligence officials have denied an allegation that the UK helped former president Barack Obama “wiretap” Donald Trump during the 2016 election.
  • (5) Brennan's testimony theoretically represents a rare chance to learn more about drone killing, warrantless wiretapping, torture, rendition, foreign meddling and other odd cloak-and-daggery.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump jokes about wiretapping at Angela Merkel press conference “But no funds will be paid to the US.
  • (7) Anyone who is in the intelligence community would understand what Clapper said as there being no wiretap targeting of Trump or his campaign,” Todd Hinnen, a former acting assistant attorney general for national security at the justice department, said.
  • (8) I’m reminded of the semi-faux fury we heard from Google’s executive chairman , Eric Schmidt, over the NSA’s literal wiretapping of its internal data systems.
  • (9) Trump’s wiretap paranoia and the reality of modern surveillance Read more Trump held his first cabinet meeting on Monday, with negotiations over the repeal and replacement of Obama’s Affordable Care Act still dominating the political agenda and a budget proposal expected to be unveiled on Thursday .
  • (10) But tellingly, the questioning kept circling back to the wiretapping claim, suggesting that it could prove a vulnerable spot for the White House.
  • (11) Baltasar Garzón, 56, was convicted on 9 February by the supreme court of ordering illegal wiretaps.
  • (12) The governor of Sicily has suspended himself from public office after claims that he failed to counter a friend’s suggestion that the daughter of one of Italy’s most celebrated anti-mafia heroes – a judge who was killed in 1992 – be “done away with just like her father” in a wiretapped telephone conversation two years ago.
  • (13) There is no evidence to support that claim” of Obama ordering Trump to be wiretapped, a US official told the Guardian over the weekend.
  • (14) Besides being an Iraq war architect and torture advocate, Rice notoriously defended George W Bush's outright illegal NSA warrantless wiretapping program when it first was revealed in 2005.
  • (15) In the last six months of 2012, 68% of those requests were made under ECPA subpoenas which do not require a court order, unlike most wiretaps or requests to search properties.
  • (16) In Thursday's verdict, the court ruled that Garzón acted unlawfully in ordering prison wiretaps of detainees talking to their lawyers, the court said, adding that his actions "these days are only found in totalitarian regimes".
  • (17) On Saturday, it was disclosed by US officials that counterparts in Russia had turned over information they had on 26-year-old Tamerlan and his mother, including wiretapped telephone calls between the two.
  • (18) On Monday, Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House oversight and government reform committee, told CBS: “Thus far, I have not seen anything directly that would support what the president has said.” Trump 'wiretap': White House wants investigation but Clapper denies order Read more Chaffetz added that it would take time for a House intelligence panel investigating the alleged Russia links to get to the bottom of the wiretapping allegation and that his committee would play a supporting role in this.
  • (19) Garzón was stung by the court's affirmation that he had behaved as if working for a totalitarian regime, fishing indiscriminately for evidence and trampling on defendants' rights by wiretapping jail conversations with defence lawyers.
  • (20) It is inconceivable that those legal requirements could be met in the circumstances described.” Although Clapper denied that Trump or his campaign had been wiretapped, it has been reported that some Trump associates, and former campaign members, had been under investigation for their contacts with Moscow.

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