Sentence examples for big dial from inspiring English sources

The big dial has neither numerals nor minute markers; since it was intended to be consulted at distances of up to 20 miles it has only five-minute markers.

Then it was all tied to one big dial [inside the game's bespoke audio engine], which was interest level," Wolinski explains.

True to the Apple aesthetic it's one big dial you can spin and push to control a sophisticated array of features.

The original system, a $99 $1499 after pre-order period) box with a big dial on the front, is designed to be a dumb terminal for all of your streaming needs.

On the left side is a small speaker port and on the right, a trio of navigation buttons — or, rather, two navigation buttons and a big dial in the center, which takes advantage of an Android Wear improvement, serving to navigate around the UI in a manner similar to what you'll find on the Apple Watch.

Purchase a big dial clock to hang in the classroom.

Among the big dials people can tune to affect personal happiness is how much we compare ourselves to others.

Pete Smith, professor of soils and global change at the University of Aberdeen, in Scotland, said that while most efforts to curb global warming focus on the supply side, managing the demand side "is one of the big dials that we can control" to affect climate outcomes.

It then allows users to tweak the big dials – statewide tax policy, education spending – and see if their state lands in the red, or the black.

"I'm not convinced people are going to get on that big Dial-a-Ride van and go up and down the street". The state-funded program, which was started in December , 1986 was intended to provide free rides for residents of La Canada who are disabled or are older than 60.

Enter Ellen Franck, the 35-year-old narrator of Laura Zigman's second novel, DATING BIG BIRD (Dial, $22.95).