Sentence examples for dial may from inspiring English sources

Researchers using computers to dial may encounter legal complications.

S.P.F. is self-explanatory, but the environment dial may require some thought.

When you're lost on the way to a wedding, or you're running late, or Blockbuster doesn't have the movie your spouse sent you to pick up, the number you ache to dial may not be 911.

Its old-time styling, aperture ring and shutter-speed dial may offer a gentle landing for veteran hobbyist photographers who have yet to go digital — and who may therefore be forgiving of its quirks.

For example, in an amplifier, a switch may select the sound source by controlling the input to the circuit, and a dial may adjust the volume by controlling internal parameters such as a variable resistance.

While the dial may appear busy, it packs a lot of information (and old-school innovation) into a small space.

The dials may be operated by the attendant who runs the regular projection machine.

So-called drunk dialing may be as old as the telephone itself, but now, he said, the edge of the abyss is much closer in an era when so many people carry personal digital assistants containing hundreds of contact numbers — including clients, work adversaries and bosses — everywhere, including bars and parties.

This article reports some of the difficulties encountered in a case-control study whose mean case age was 63.4 years and suggests that community controls selected by random digit dialing may be preferable to hospital controls for hypothesis-generating case-control studies of diseases in the elderly.

Some of the dials will be numbered clockwise and other dials may be numbered counterclockwise.

The dial tone may feel like part of the language, but over at A.T. & T. the voice recognition lab is cooking up a system that it hopes will bring about the return of the operator, although in digital form.