Sentence examples for as a device or from inspiring English sources

No courtroom drama and no exercise in dialectics, the play uses the picture as a device, or one could say as a frame, for a romantic comedy filled with contemporary angst.

A password, as security folk put it, is "something you know"; multi-factor approaches pair this with "something you have", such as a device or app that generates a unique code with a short period of validity, or "something you are", such as an analysis of your voice or fingerprint.

Over time, revenue-per-user numbers may trend downward as a device or platform crosses over into the mainstream.

Also, especially with new bands, a free recording serves as a device or promotional tool to spreading the word on that act or project.

The physiologic signal is collected by a sensor defined as an element of a measuring system that is directly affected by a phenomenon, body, or substance carrying a quantity to be measured or less frequently by a detector defined as a device or substance that indicates the presence of a phenomenon, body, or substance when a threshold value of an associated quantity is exceeded.

We identified 5 themes from participants' description of CDSSs: Participants understood the meaning of CDSSs as a "device or system or program or guideline that takes them down a pathway that helps to decide on an appropriate decision given certain parameters of patients".

And Bobby has often registered either as a cipher, a device, or a man of convoluted secret lives that the show can't begin to accommodate.

Foam roller: A foam roller can be used for a warm-up or cool-down muscle massage, as a balance device or as a fulcrum for doing variations of crunches and back bridges.

One curious side effect of such changes was the occasional appearance of a shakuhachi tucked in the back of one's belt for use as a musical device or as a club.

They are most probably pre-Buddhist in origin but are used by Buddhist priests, also, as a protective device or as a net to catch and destroy unspecified evil spirits.

HDM can be used in different manners: as a modeling device or as an implementation device.