Sentence examples for device that serves from inspiring English sources

A rod fixed to the platform supports a mechanical device that serves as the robot's arm.

Elsewhere in the babytronics basket is the Itzbeen Baby Care Timer, ($25) a hand-held device that serves as something of a personal digital assistant for sleepy parents.

The ultramicrobalance is any weighing device that serves to determine the weight of smaller samples than can be weighed with the microbalance i.e., total amounts as small as one or a few micrograms.

As well as providing comic relief, their hilarious production of Pyramus and Thisbe is a device that serves as a play within a play to reflect some of Shakespeare's pointed thoughts about performance and actors (see also Sidebar: Performance in Shakespeare).

This is reinforced by the poet and literary critic Michael Hofmann's conscientious translations, which even maintain the comma splices that occur regularly in German but appear as grammatical errors in English — a device that serves to illustrate the frailty of the characters' perceptions.

The authors specifically identified the access to an emergency button as a protective device that serves to increase guardianship.

Pieces of the "Ring" machine, the problem-plagued device that served as a set in the most recent staging of these four Wagner operas, were stored here after it was disassembled in May; other components were sent to a climate-controlled warehouse in Newburgh, N.Y.

Created by Tijuana-bred visual artist Daniel Ruanova, the project began with the construction of a mechanical sculpture, built around the "cortito," an outmoded farming device that served as the primary tool for the bracero worker.

That presents a challenge for the Mountain School: how to regulate the use of smartphones and other devices that serve as a constant distraction for 21st-century teenagers, who are here to engage with the rural setting and with one another.

2. Learn about greeting card companies' efforts to design for the contemporary father by reading and discussing the article "Hey, Dude, Happy Father's Day". 3. Work in pairs to design and promote devices that serve and appeal to the modern dad. 4. Create print advertisements marketing their device.

On one theory, some exclusionary rules are devices that serve as incentives for lawyers to produce the epistemically best evidence that is reasonably available (Nance 1988).