| 单词 | device |
| 释义 | device (dɪvaɪs ) Word forms: devices 1. countable noun B1+ A device is an object that has been invented for a particular purpose, for example for recording or measuring something. ...an electronic device that protects your vehicle 24 hours a day. ...a device that could measure minute quantities of matter. We believe that an explosive device had been left inside a container. Synonyms: gadget, machine, tool, instrument 2. countable noun A device is a method of achieving something. They claim that military spending is used as a device for managing the economy. [+ for] ...the literary device of the metaphor. 3. to leave someone to their own devices phrase If you leave someone to their own devices, you leave them alone to do as they wish. Left to his own devices, Osborn is a fluent–and often original–guitarist. Collocations: connect a device to There are apparently, something like ten billion devices connected to the internet. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The machine has USB ports for connecting external devices such as cameras, MP3 players and hard drives. Times, Sunday Times (2008) The average household has eight devices connected to the net. Times, Sunday Times (2017) A second suspect vehicle was searched and another device was defused shortly afterwards, he said. Times, Sunday Times (2017) A bomb squad defused the device. The Sun (2013) Police admitted last night it could take days to defuse the devices. The Sun (2012) The device emits an audible alarm and a colour-coded warning telling the driver how frequently the speed trap has been reported. Times, Sunday Times When activated, the wrist device emits a powerful radio signal, which the base station receives. Times, Sunday Times The jamming device emits a signal that would prevent the black box from communicating with the satellite. Times, Sunday Times The device emits radiation which causes the body to gather specific elements in a tumor behind the victim's lung, which eventually explodes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Other device makers also face a tough few months sourcing components. Times, Sunday Times Device makers are also cottoning on to this psychology. Times, Sunday Times And medical device makers can only guess at the effect of the new tax - $20 billion over 10 years - on sales and profits on everything from bed pans to surgical instruments. Times, Sunday Times The device makers interviewed each insist they are in it for the long run. Globe and Mail Now the industry groups - device makers and diagnostics specialists as well as the medicine makers - are starting to talk about taking their relationship to the next level. Times, Sunday Times The company refused to name the 'top five' mobile device manufacturer behind it. Times, Sunday Times Losers in the converged world, he said, would be 'the network operators, service providers and device manufacturers who don't pay particular attention to understanding and reacting to what customers value'. Times, Sunday Times Another $93 billion in funds will come from new annual fees imposed on groups such as pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This presents a problem for device manufacturers, who are required to maintain a complex timezone database, rather than rely on the network operator. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 With advanced technology, high-end device manufacturers use 200 mm and 300 mm diameter wafers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Youngsters spend over 30 hours a week on digital devices, a study says. The Sun (2016) More than 52% of the population now listens on a digital device. Times, Sunday Times (2013) New social media websites and digital devices are changing the way we broadcast and consume information. Times, Sunday Times (2012) They measure glucose in interstitial fluid using an invasive sensor with a little needle, which sends alarms and data to a display device. Times,Sunday Times However, an easy-to-use display device should come as standard. Times, Sunday Times The further a display device deviates from these standards, the less accurate these swatches will be. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It allows an application to render output to a printer just as it would to any other display device. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The modified data tag was well suited to converting formatted, structured punched card input onto the 3270 display device. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Emblazoned across a video screen in graffiti scrawl were words and phrases from the libretto - it was an effective device. Times, Sunday Times In an effective device, their faces are contrasted - then and now - by juxtaposing archive footage. Times, Sunday Times A simple and effective device that transforms the building between day and night. Times, Sunday Times It also uses an unusual but effective device — clips of the interviewees once they have stopped talking. Times, Sunday Times The carport was therefore a cheap and effective device for the protection of a car. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The prefix ' smart' is typically applied to any electrical device that contains a microchip to connect it to the internet. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Two-thirds are turning off lights and other electrical devices to reduce power bills. The Sun (2008) The noise from the motors and the electrical devices is unbelievable. Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth (1990) Passengers can surf the internet, send and receive e-mails on smartphones and other electronic devices, and send and receive text messages. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The use of any personal electronic devices whilst driving is unacceptable. The Sun (2014) A paralysed man has walked again thanks to an electronic device that connected his brain signals to electrodes attached to his legs. Times, Sunday Times (2015) He added that the team was working on tweaks to enable the device to identify specific birds of the same species, enabling regular visitors to be spotted. Times,Sunday Times In 1991, to enable the device to be trademarked, the original generic motif was replaced with a more stylised version. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The device's reflective surface enables the device to be clearly visible at long distances at night and in rainy weather. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The external device includes a microphone, which looks like a behind-the-ear hearing aid: it picks up sound and sends it to the speech processor. Times, Sunday Times His effort uses an external device or a mobile app that 'autonomously compiles whitelisted, blacklisted and graylisted numbers databases'. Times, Sunday Times This week, after 555 days living with the external device, he returned home from hospital with a healthy donor organ. Times, Sunday Times We have outsourced our memories to an external device, but we take that device everywhere. The Sun An external device plugs into the existing port and then has multiple places to connect. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 An additional condition was that a tracking device is fitted. Times, Sunday Times (2016) They fit a magnetic reading device and video camera to a cashpoint. The Sun (2006) Should speed limiting devices be fitted to all new cars? Times, Sunday Times (2009) It's a hand-held device linked to a computer. Times, Sunday Times (2007) It provides hand-held devices that reduce the need for queuing. Times, Sunday Times (2011) They would like to do some internet banking with a portable handheld device while away from home. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The extended wear hearing aid represents the first invisible hearing device. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 That allows the hearing device to sit comfortably within the ear canal, completely out of sight. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They have sessions with the centre's four audiologists, who also make sure that their hearing devices are in working order on a daily basis. ST Research into more than 8,500 people found it was halved after the eye surgery - and cut by 75 per cent with the use of hearing devices. The Sun Under this assumption, the amplitudes of brainstem potentials stimulated by the hearing devices should exhibit close-to-normal values. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Eight soldiers have been killed this year by hidden devices. The Sun (2008) Any of them could be hiding an explosive device. Times, Sunday Times (2016) But she will now train new dogs to hunt for hidden devices. The Sun (2011) A new high-tech device puts security firmly in the hands of the owner. Times, Sunday Times This allows drivers to unlock their car simply by approaching with the high-tech device. The Sun Today’s high-tech devices aren’t the only tools leading voyagers astray. Smithsonian Mag The energy industry says this would be a waste of money and would hinder introduction of high-tech devices that would save far more cash and carbon. Times, Sunday Times High-tech devices help with lighting and bathing. Times, Sunday Times Specifically, it compensates for pan and tilt (angular movement, equivalent to yaw and pitch) of the imaging device. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This new technology uses a digital imaging device to record the shape of the surface of an eye. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As the field progresses videographers may produce their assets entirely on a computer without ever involving an imaging device, using software-driven solutions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Digital radiography eliminates x-ray film and associated toxic chemicals in dentistry by employing a re-usable semiconductor imaging device to capture x-rays. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Correspondingly, for this particular imaging device, the spokes become more and more blurred towards the center until they merge into a gray, unresolved, disc. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are also some efforts to implant this device endoscopically, avoiding surgery. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The surgeon passed leads through the veins into the heart and then implanted the device via a small incision under the patient's collarbone. The Sun He implants a device in her tooth allowing him to control her moods. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The ingenious device applies fierce heat and pressure to the 'source material', ageing it and turning it into a thick, crude oil. Times, Sunday Times Then follows the attachment of the 'twitch', an ingenious device consisting of a length of broomstick with a loop of bailing twine at one end. Times, Sunday Times They must also monitor their rebreathers, ingenious devices that remove carbon dioxide from exhaled breath and replace it with specific levels of oxygen. Times, Sunday Times We can be snooped upon, 24 hours a day, through the medium of those various ingenious devices that we have acquired to make our lives ever-more comfortable. Times, Sunday Times With hopes of raising $10,000, churches were encouraged to build ingenious devices in which to gather your pennies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Britain is way behind other European countries in installing these vital devices. The Sun (2007) Some insurers offer lower premiums to drivers who install the devices. Times, Sunday Times (2015) She may need assistance in getting locks and security devices installed in her home. Christianity Today (2000) But an allergy to acetone, required for the cement splicing that was the standard way of editing film, had led him to invent a device that used adhesive tape instead. The Times Literary Supplement By 1780 he had so many patients wanting sessions with him that he had to invent a device whereby he could treat whole groups at once. Times, Sunday Times A lab assistant at a hearing aid manufacturer invents a device that you plug in to your ear and that talks to you. Times, Sunday Times This scenario could soon be a reality after researchers invented a device that can assess emotions. Times, Sunday Times Now scientists have invented a device that they hope might one day reduce the roar of a crowd to a whimper at the flick of a switch. Times, Sunday Times The laser device detects the presence of microbubbles of nitrogen in blood and tissues that restrict the flow of blood through the body and cause damage. Times, Sunday Times They had been surveying as they explored, using a computerised electronic laser device. Times, Sunday Times In the first draft of the screenplay, the time machine was a laser device that was housed in a room. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The laser device discovered snow falling from clouds; this was not known before the mission. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 An x-ray spectrometer, an x-ray telescope, cosmic-ray detectors, and a laser device were also included. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It comes across as more of a literary device than a dramatic one. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Not exactly an original literary device. Times, Sunday Times (2010) As a literary device, this works marvellously. The Times Literary Supplement (2014) The detonator was not a magnetic device but was designed to explode the mine under pressure of a tank or armoured vehicle. Times, Sunday Times It’s no simple task, but a magnetic device might be the answer. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In a separate study, 75 per cent of patients with migraine who were treated repeatedly with the transcranial magnetic device had a reduction in headache frequency. Times, Sunday Times But a simple new magnetic device could put an end to period pains. The Sun Machines with serial main storage devices such as acoustic or magnetostrictive delay lines and rotating magnetic devices were usually serial computers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Two short sisters shelve their differences to help their father to market a device that helps short people to reach high objects. Times, Sunday Times They won $25,000 to help start a company to market the device. Houston Chronicle Yet smartphone sales surpassed 40 million units, a 27 per cent increase from the same period last year, representing the fastest-growing segment of the mobile devices market. Times, Sunday Times The group, which has appointed a new management team, will now focus on building a business within the in vitro diagnostic devices market. Times, Sunday Times It has achieved significant growth in the medical devices market, where it produces stents and heart valves. Times, Sunday Times This reduced the measurement device to a small mirror that could move at high speeds to match the waveform. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A typical machine may use many different types of measurement device in order to measure different properties. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Inside the dewcell core a thermistor composite (or other temperature measurement device) changes electrical resistance with the temperature created by the heating. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This simple type of measurement device has been in use by engineers and designers for about 40 years. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the 1980s, the company launched a new measurement device known as the people meter. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Wrap a transmitter in a thick layer of suitably ablative material with a mechanical device to turn it on once through. THE MOAT AROUND MURCHESON'S EYE (1993) The mathematical calculations involved were facilitated by means of a mechanical device Traveller called an arithmometer. ANTI-ICE (1996) There was a rumour that some mechanical device had been placed in the coach to help her support the weight of the sceptre and orb. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN (2001) It is scary to think that it is a mechanical device and tablets keeping me alive. The Sun (2015) That helped to offset a drop in sales of its medical device cleaning products as doctors put off non-essential operations and tests. Times,Sunday Times The firm started as a medical device designer — working on products such as asthma inhalers — and branched into cycling helmets only three years ago. Times, Sunday Times Disclaimer states it's not a medical device, but it will tick the box for wearing a mask. The Sun And medical device makers can only guess at the effect of the new tax - $20 billion over 10 years - on sales and profits on everything from bed pans to surgical instruments. Times, Sunday Times This registered medical device conducts gentle electric impulses through the skin via silver-fibre socks, stimulating nerve endings in the feet. Times, Sunday Times They took a pocket memory device but left a portable external hard drive that has a 150-gig capacity. The Sun This meant the complicated sets of instructions telling the computer to perform various tasks could be stored in binary code on a memory device, rather than entered and re-entered manually. Smithsonian Mag The correct bits may be stored in a memory device or synthesized in real-time as reception of the communicated bit-stream occurs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This may be a design decision if there are more address bits available than are necessary to support the installed memory device(s). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many such field/probe pairs are used to make up a memory device. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Alternatively, use Bluetooth to stream music from a mobile device. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Nearly a quarter of Americans use mobile devices to get news. Times, Sunday Times (2012) And 27 per cent of online purchases were made on mobile devices. The Sun (2013) Rather, with greater longevity, everyone leaves behind an array of mobility devices and there's a glut. Times, Sunday Times Three electric mobility devices for different stages of life. The Sun These mobility devices are often installed in homes as an alternative to stair lift, which only transport a passenger and not their wheelchair or mobility scooter. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Under the new system, people with high readings in the surgery will be sent home with an ambulatory monitoring device to wear under their clothes. Times, Sunday Times The jobless 22-year-old was ordered to wear the monitoring device while on curfew for battering a reveller outside a nightspot. The Sun He was fined 1,785 and ordered to wear an electronic monitoring device that required him to abide by a night-time curfew. The Sun Around 24 per cent of owners have fitted a monitoring device and an identical number have considered getting one. The Sun A special electronic monitoring device was sent down the well to check for hydrocarbons. Times, Sunday Times It's a conceptual film that uses an imaginative narrative device to frame the debate. Times, Sunday Times This isn't the first time that the six degrees of separation has been deployed as a narrative device in recent years. Times, Sunday Times The narrative device of double awareness, poised somewhere between fiction and memoir, provides space for the development of complex feelings, transmuting humour into savage irony and back again. Times, Sunday Times I suggest we be cold-blooded about it and take amnesia not as a symptom of audience anxieties but as a reliable narrative device. The Times Literary Supplement In addition, the plot and narrative device are unusual and unconventional. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The amount needed to make a powerful nuclear device could fit in a small gym bag. Times,Sunday Times Instead, you would detonate a relatively small nuclear device next to the asteroid to nudge it a little off course. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Or a thermo nuclear device? The Sun The blast took place only a few kilometers from where the first nuclear device had been detonated in 2006. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It involved detonating a 12-kiloton nuclear device in granitic rock at a depth of approximately below ground surface. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are a number of different mechanisms used to operate the device, including crank handles, push buttons and pull-cords. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In some cabs, the driver could also operate a device that balanced the cab and reduced strain on the horse. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By making it possible for more than one person to operate the device, the skill level of the operators was greatly reduced. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Nanotechnology can adapt to this satellite very small size electronic circuits, and cells that capture solar energy and transform it into energy to operate the device. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Thin film lithium ion batteries can be used to make thinner portable electronics, because the thickness of the battery required to operate the device can be reduced greatly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Coupling loss in fiber optics refers to the power loss that occurs when coupling light from one optical device or medium to another. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 One may imagine an optical device that allows radiative heat transfer between the two cavities, filtered to pass only a definite band of radiative frequencies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Electromagnetic wormholes, as an optical device (not gravitational) are derived from cloaking theories has potential applications for advancing some current technology. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The key development lies in the ability of the sphere, an optical device, to not only remain invisible itself but to slow light. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The physical length of an optical device can be reduced to less than the length of the optical path by using folded optics. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The homemade device was planted in a men's toilet. The Sun (2015) Planting this device put local people and police officers at significant risk. The Sun (2009) There had been no previous attempt to plant an explosive device on the bridge. Times, Sunday Times (2007) There are ambitious experiments, some more successful than others, and some plot devices are unresolved. Times, Sunday Times (2015) It is a fiendishly smart plot device, and a wonder that nobody thought of doing it before. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Today's soap opera writers ignore these plot devices at their peril. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Doctors could have these small, portable devices in their offices to get nearly instant readings. The Sun (2009) You can also opt to have an input lead fitted so that any portable music device, such as an MP3 player, can be played through it. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Many tradesmen now have small portable mobile payment devices to accept cards. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Finally, his left hand was removed ready for the prosthetic device. Times, Sunday Times Some individuals with hemiplegia will benefit from some type of prosthetic device. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A speech bulb, yet another type of prosthetic device often confused with a palatal obturator, contains a pharyngeal section, which goes behind the soft palate. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He grew out a beard and was given a prosthetic hook to replace his arm because his insurance did not cover an electric prosthetic device. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His prosthetic device was included within his 2004 passport photograph which has been claimed to confirm his cyborg status. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This led to the cryoegg, a prototype device due to be tested this summer, when it will be inserted into drillholes dug by other scientific projects. Times, Sunday Times Using technology used in headphones, the prototype device can halve the level of outdoor noise, even when the windows are wide open. Times, Sunday Times The prototype device was only capable of dispensing one smell at a time. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For example, a fully operational prototype device detecting casein in milk has been fabricated. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Operating on the same principles as traditional tubes, prototype device cathodes have been fabricated in several different ways. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Maintains a safe distance between your car and the vehicle in front using a radar device in the front grille. Times, Sunday Times The autopilot was very good, happily driving along at a level speed, with a radar device keeping it at a constant distance from the car in front. Times, Sunday Times He also wrote the first ticket in the world for speeding using a radar device. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But research has found that the radar devices, which display each vehicle's speed as it passes with either a smiling or frowning face, have only a 'novelty effect' on drivers. Times, Sunday Times Speedsters will be caught with hand-held radar devices carried by hidden personnel. Times, Sunday Times An employee hid a recording device in the supervisor's office and recorded negative comments that his boss made about him. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The images are transmitted to a recording device worn by the patient. Times, Sunday Times (2014) She took advice about how to check her flat for bugs or recording devices. Times, Sunday Times (2017) Drone enthusiasts caught flying a remote device too high or close to buildings face being hit with £100 fines under new laws. Times,Sunday Times We got fired on and as we got down they operated a remote device. Times, Sunday Times Outdoor ranges can be improved to many kilometers through the use of high gain directional antennas at the router and remote device(s). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When an application needs to send or receive data from a remote device, it sends a call to the redirector. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Similar utilities allowed remote devices to be mapped into the local computer's space, allowing for network printing and similar duties. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A favourite rhetorical device is the appearance of emphatically real-world items in unexpected places. The Times Literary Supplement (2013) It is a rhetorical device. Times, Sunday Times (2006) As a rhetorical device it was effective, but there were no ideas for how to solve inequality. Times, Sunday Times (2015) How effective a rhetorical device is this opening? Exploring language (6th edn) (1995) Haptic technology provides tactile and resistance feedback to surgeons as they operate the robotic device. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The surgeon uses joysticks that track movements, which are then translated in real-time to the scaled movements of a robotic device that enables the operation to take place. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 And robotic devices are also helping with medical care and heavy lifting in the home. Times, Sunday Times The development of the exoskeleton locomotor device would provide an inexpensive alternative to the robotic devices. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Robotic devices also facilitate three-dimensional kinematic studies and correlated hydrodynamic analyses, as the location of the locomotor surface can be known accurately. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Along with our mission statement and statement of faith, it has given us another screening device to test whether faculty members and trustees will fit. Christianity Today The tower's stated height was 60 metres to the parapet, but 78 metres to the pinnacle of the glass screening device. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 An approved screening device demand can be made whenever a police officer reasonably suspects that a motorist has alcohol in his or her body. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Their false limbs triggered a cacophony of alarms as they passed through the airport's screening devices. Times, Sunday Times The firm and its subsidiaries specialize in aviation security services, operating airport checkpoints and electronic equipment, such as x-ray screening devices and manual devices, and verifying travel documents. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The Gas Energy Saver is a simple device that you fit to your hob to make it burn fuel more efficiently. Times, Sunday Times (2009) It's a simple device, but utterly effective. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The most brilliant was a simple device designed by two doctors that predicts a woman's maximum time of fertility. Times, Sunday Times (2011) More than half the adult population own at least one smart device. Times, Sunday Times (2016) New generations of smart mobile devices are being adopted that are only able to connect wirelessly. Computing (2010) The smart wristband is the most common smart wearable device just now. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Packed with cameras and sophisticated devices, they send live footage of the enemy to our patrol bases 24 hours a day. The Sun A second prosthetic hand that allows textures such as sandpaper and cotton buds to be felt shows that even more sophisticated devices are on the horizon. Times, Sunday Times Its additional power could drive increasingly sophisticated devices, including driverless cars. Times, Sunday Times However, more sophisticated devices offer greater accuracy - at a price. Times, Sunday Times Machines that can sift patterns and recommend experiments could prove invaluable for scientists and businesses swamped by the volume of data from increasingly sophisticated devices. Times, Sunday Times This feels less like a deliberate stylistic device and more like a slip of the keyboard from someone trying to remind us that true rock stars are ill-educated. Times, Sunday Times The brash stylistic devices that were popularised by 300 — extreme slow-motion, soldiers frozen in mid-evisceration — show up again here, but they are sloppy and unnecessary. Times, Sunday Times It's also full of jump cuts and other annoying stylistic devices. Times, Sunday Times We could probably all rustle up a list of the structural and stylistic devices associated with postmodernism. The Times Literary Supplement But you can find him experimenting with their stylistic devices: omitting the horizon or playing with abrupt compositional crops, trying forceful diagonals or exaggerating bird's-eye views. Times, Sunday Times An unlawful surveillance device, said to have been placed in a vehicle owned by one witness, has been intercepted by police in another country. Times,Sunday Times Each wagon will have a surveillance device to check the right ones are put out on the right day and record a log of missed collections. The Sun But before he could start, the nefarious inventor sees through his surveillance device that someone came to his facility. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Almost 50 countries have robots in their arsenals though largely, for the moment, as surveillance devices. Times,Sunday Times Surveillance devices of increasing sophistication and variety are now widely available on the open market. Times, Sunday Times 60 per cent of these internet bets were placed on phones or tablet devices. The Sun (2014) One said it was easier to keep a work diary on a tablet device. The Sun (2014) The company needs to gain impetus as competing tablet devices reshape the industry. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Now we are about to see a 'very dramatic' change in the way we use technology devices. Times, Sunday Times He demonstrated that they are capable of controlling assistive technology devices, suggesting that less invasive techniques can be used to restore functionality to locked-in patients. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Option specializes in the design, development, production and commercialization of broadband wireless technology devices. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Assistive technology devices can be simple, or low-tech, or they may use highly advanced technology, with some even using computers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Smaller chip sizes for computers and the ability to store more information and tools in electronics increases the ability and minimizes materials for information technology devices such as computers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Consuming the bucket-sized coffee gives me an opportunity to test a device that allows drivers to answer the call of nature in their car. Times, Sunday Times Three operators will test a device fitted to the front of passenger trains that blasts sand on to the tracks to improve grip. The Sun They are to construct a device following a specific event's parameters and test the device against others. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To address this challenge, the researchers also tested the device with a participant who silently mimed the sentences instead of speaking them out loud. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The first to test the devices are a group of eight blind people. Times, Sunday Times Within 72 hours of beginning his house arrest the court-ordered breath-alcohol testing device detected alcohol on his breath. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He created a small, portable testing device that he could use after the pool closed at night. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 An increasingly used field sobriety test involves having the suspect breathe into a small, handheld breath testing device. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 While investigators found slight flaws with the labels on some of the cheaper products, the actual testing devices were fine. The Sun Early testing devices relied on breath samples collected in bags attached to crystal-filled tubes which underwent a colour change dependent upon the level of alcohol detected. Times, Sunday Times Insiders who have seen extended video say he was blown off his feet by the first two blasts, rendering him unable to trigger his device. The Sun A deer hunter or a police officer might trigger the device, she said. canada.com Experts say that the bomber would have been close enough to see the convoy on the road when he triggered the device at 8.34am. Times, Sunday Times They can shield humans from danger, as when they sweep the ocean floor for mines and trigger the devices to explode miles away from any service personnel. Times, Sunday Times The other triggered his device. The Sun Vibrato is a device used to enhance the otherwise dry and soulless sound as can be heard from a beginner on any string instrument. Times, Sunday Times (2008) On the fishway a device used for sediment dispense was installed. 2016, 'HYDRAULIC RESEARCH OF SEDIMENT TRANSPORT IN THE VERTICAL SLOT FISH PASSES', Journal of Ecological Engineering Due to be shipped in the autumn, it will be a small, wearable device with an LED display that children can programme. Times, Sunday Times (2015) While most wearable devices include their own power source, these often have a very short battery life. Times, Sunday Times (2015) As smart watches and other wearable devices become more popular, the range of sensors will grow further. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Don't mistake this for tat; it's a swanky wireless device. Times, Sunday Times Transmitting, receiving or searching for adult content on a wireless device. Times, Sunday Times Print from anywhere with this wireless device. The Sun The information can, in theory, be delivered to a wireless device in the car and cut the time people spend trawling the streets looking for a space. Times, Sunday Times To address this, the researchers collected data using both their wireless device and a camera. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 器件 Japanese: 装置 |
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