noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
explosive device (= bomb )
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A small explosive device was set off outside the UN headquarters today.
homing device
incendiary bomb/device
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The explosion seems to have been caused by an incendiary device.
labour-saving device/gadget/equipment etc
left to...own devices (= left alone and allowed to do whatever they wanted )
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Students were left to their own devices for long periods.
listening device
personal electronic device
stylistic feature/device
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stylistic features of the story
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
electronic
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Chip makers want to shrink their chips to meet the demand for faster electronic devices and computers.
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One of the maids, like an electronic sensing device , opened the door as I approached.
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To play the game, children run the hand-held electronic device over the barcode of any product.
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It is linked by wire to a briefcase-sized electronic device fifty yards away.
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Massey has also added an electronic device on its 6-cylinder tractors for automatically raising and lowering semi-mounted ploughs at the headland.
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Flash memory is a type of semiconductor chip used to store data in computers and electronic devices .
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We are evaluating a more sophisticated electronic device which allows the entire theatre team at risk to be monitored with minimal inconvenience.
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He was not handcuffed, but wore an electronic restraining device under a blue check shirt and gray slacks.
explosive
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A small explosive device used in the booster-separation system failed to fire when Endeavour launched on 30 November last year.
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There have been no additional explosive devices found nor any arrests made.
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The wheel could have controlled an explosive device .
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He said the equipment could be used at checkpoints to search people for explosive devices .
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How could this explosive device possibly have been smuggled aboard?
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He then turned away and detonated the explosive device strapped to his body.
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One of the earliest explosive devices was the petard, which was a mine used to breach castle walls or gates.
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They were being held without bail on suspicion of conspiracy, possession of explosive devices and burglary.
incendiary
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An incendiary device exploded setting fire to furniture, but the blaze was brought under control.
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But taxes, earlier considered the incendiary device of the race, may no longer be so.
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The caller claimed three incendiary devices had been planted at the Vineyards.
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Sources said the explosion seemed to have been caused by an incendiary device .
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But the incendiary devices were different from those used in previous arson attacks by the extremist group.
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Then a series of cassette-sized incendiary devices were carefully hidden in a number of stores.
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Firemen found more than a dozen incendiary devices in the offices near Borden, Hants, used by scientists to study squirrels.
mechanical
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It's either a mechanical or electrical device .
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But the Earth as mechanical device has been a harder idea to swallow.
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No mechanical devices or hormones are used.
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Similar mechanical devices are planned for the space station.
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Simple mechanical devices were placed in the test room to maintain an accurate record of output.
medical
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The company makes medical devices that use laser technology for correcting nearsightedness and other eye disorders.
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Two medical device makers also were in the plus column.
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Boston Scientific develops and markets medical devices .
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This group would evaluate current or anticipated shortages of and increased demand for drugs, biologics, or related medical devices .
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Also putting in strong years: aerospace and defense, oil drilling and medical device companies.
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Assess the impact of modern medical devices on the emergence and prevention of nosocomial infections.
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Use of invasive medical devices , such as indwelling catheters, often carries a risk for infection.
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Medtronic Inc. v. Lohr: Federal law does not prevent patients from suing manufacturers of defective medical devices in state courts.
new
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The new device , called a quiteron, exploits the strange properties that some substances develop at very low temperatures.
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Our Astern also contains the newest computerized scanning device that determines exactly where and when the intrusion occurred.
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He's using a lot of natural sounds - kitchen percussion, crowd voices ... all sorts of new devices ....
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Supplemental Help: A new device to help consumers choose nutritional supplements may be coming to a drugstore near you.
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Agfa will be showing a pair of new devices while Xerox will have its new 1,200dpi ProImager device.
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Consumers have no say in this arrangement; they are expected to simply buy the new devices and learn the lingo.
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Voice over Monitoring of large rivers has been made easier by a new device , which tells scientists where fish are lurking.
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There he was handed a smock and a scalpel and one of the new surgical stapling devices .
nuclear
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If the scientists succeed, they will have taken a small step toward improving the efficiency of nuclear fusion devices .
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There would have been small nuclear devices loosed upon the Metroplex if Dallas had lost.
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The dangers of creating a miniature nuclear device worried them and also increased their concerns for safety.
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Thus the need for underground testing of nuclear devices , a practice now banned by the treaty.
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The section for training in portable nuclear devices had been in the deep cellars of the monastery.
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As little as 55 pounds of highly enriched uranium or 18 pounds of plutonium could be used to build a nuclear device .
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He weighed up what he needed to tell her about the shapechangers and theft of the nuclear device .
other
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The radio waves may come not only from transmitters but power supplies, motors or other electrical devices .
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Publicity differs from the other promotional devices mentioned in this chapter in that it often does not cost the organization any money!
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In some other devices semiconductor beads are used instead of metallic sensors.
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It was a simple but effective system of welfare financed partly by taxes and partly by other devices .
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Boltzmann machines and other similar devices have foundations in information theory.
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The other class of devices are designed to detect the relative movement of freely suspended massive blocks.
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Next month we will print animal behaviourist John Fisher's views on this and other extreme training devices .
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Memories of other similar devices flickered for an instant.
rhetorical
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It is this component, comprising its symbolic aspects of rhetorical and metaphorical devices , which we refer to as its circumference.
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A rhetorical device with which to disarm his critics?
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However, he does not justify this suggestion by giving the criteria for classifying a mode of expression as a rhetorical device .
similar
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Boltzmann machines and other similar devices have foundations in information theory.
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Even when two schools utilized a similar device , advisory, the implementation of that program came out in very different ways.
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Their proposals are for a traffic-calming ramp or similar device , or even just a sign reminding drivers of the speed limit.
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Police then destroyed three similar devices .
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Five similar devices were found in mail at the building's sorting office and defused by the Army.
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In 1864 du Hauron patented a similar device .
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Yesterday police were still combing the area for any similar devices which may have been hidden and for further clues.
simple
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This can be done by means of a simple , well-tested device called a Sabatier reactor.
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The judges will look for simple and effective devices which also demonstrate market potential and value for money.
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These were very simple devices two small paraffin burners in square tins which gave a modest flame.
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The simple childhood device for sketching them by superimposing a small egg shape for the body remains unrivalled.
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On assembly lines, cleverly simple devices prevent mistakes.
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A disclaimer is an obvious and simple device for a trader to use to avoid committing an offence.
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The box bellows is a simple device which can be constructed by anyone with rudimentary carpentry skills.
stylistic
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These were to identify, but not describe or interpret, the stylistic devices present in a given text.
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Ripken grabbed a piece of wood, stepped to the plate and started batting practice with his own stylistic device .
useful
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Incorporation thus brings with it a useful device to facilitate borrowing, from both the company and the lender's viewpoint.
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Where previous models had been brain models first and useful devices second, Hopfield reversed the priorities.
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Cards are also a useful device for revision.
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The separation of strategies into generic versions is a useful conceptual device , even if such strategies become intertwined in practice.
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A useful device is to find an empty room, away from all your papers, documents, and other distractions.
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We added one further session to summarise useful devices for coping with and overcoming bulimia.
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Mankind has, of course, long exploited this simple principle for generating non-randomness, in the useful device known as the sieve.
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But he argues that rule-making is none the less a useful device , and that it is often preferable to direct action.
various
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The various devices used by the courts to maintain the present position will be discussed below.
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Its long-term effect however was to provoke Edinburgh employers into various devices to evade the high piece-work rates stipulated by the Interlocutor.
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Between mosaics of this format various aquatic devices are also significant.
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But individual nations also have recourse to the selective use of various devices for bending the rules of international free trade.
■ NOUN
control
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The network comprises a storage and control device which is linked to a ring of terminals and computers.
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The most important use of the budget is as a planning and control device .
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The subordinates see the control device as confirming mistrust.
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Birth control devices and information had never been widely available, and now they all but disappeared.
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But it's a technique which can be used in many different ways, for example: As a control device .
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They became an accounting device to help managers, not a control device to hem them in.
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This story itself offers a useful control device in that you're asking them how they manage without magic.
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When the temperature control device is operating, Reclamation can have it both ways.
driver
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More complex services - from device driver interfaces up will be handled by the operating system personality on top.
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This, in turn, relieves the software houses of the problem of having to write and test numerous device drivers .
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It is now said to have completed the main porting work and is now wading through the device driver work.
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It will provide updated device drivers for the next release of Windows For Workgroups.
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Specific device drivers are required for each relational database.
output
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Cheap high-resolution input and output devices will soon ensure the same kind of revolution in the cinema.
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Thus an output device is needed to make the user aware of what the microcomputer has done.
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This procedure sends a byte to the output device .
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The cheapest and most readily-available output device is the printer.
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Suggest instructions to control a set of output devices , and extend your interrupt service routine accordingly.
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It also did away with the need for bias adjustment on the output devices - a most desirable quality.
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Although the ultimate resolution rests with the output device it is essential that the software can at least provide control over it.
safety
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LID/SPLASHBACK Toughened glass lid with safety device which cuts off gas to Hotplate when lid is closed, with audible warning.
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Now, 80 percent of the handguns sold in this country will come with the safety devices .
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Doors will now have to be fitted with special safety devices to prevent people or objects getting trapped in them.
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There was testimony, lots of it, on how to fix a safety device Congress and federal regulators once deemed perfect.
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If it's a dangerous model Candy will send an engineer within 10 days to fit a safety device .
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The removal of safety devices to speed up production, for instance, is often done with the tacit connivance of supervisors.
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BThe company further says that it does not market phones explicitly as safety devices .
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Essential safety devices if you've got children!
security
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Cop shop: Police have opened their own cop shop at Darlington police station to sell personal attack alarms and security devices .
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Especially if you've splashed out on security devices .
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Ask your car dealer these questions: What security devices come as standard?
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What optional extra security devices are available?
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Turn on or activate any security devices you have fitted.
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The Home Office has also been remiss about security devices , an important subject that has been debated at length today.
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Lock all doors and windows Fit security devices recommended in this booklet - and use them!
storage
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Connected to the computer is some form of storage device which enables information to be accessed and updated quickly.
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Both services allow users to send their data over the Internet to company storage devices .
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What is clear is that the costs of memory and storage devices are decreasing, whilst storage capacity is increasing enormously.
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Sales of large-scale data storage devices also increased strongly, while earnings from computer maintenance services hardly changed.
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The compression will let digital audio-visual services be carried by terrestrial and satellite channels, telecommunications networks or digital storage devices .
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We have seen how staggeringly impressive it is as an accurate data storage device .
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Cheaper memory, faster processors, and larger storage devices , come on to the market with increasing rapidity.
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Hardware used to capture video images, process them, and send the digitised images to storage devices .
■ VERB
allow
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But these devices allow it to remain out of water for only a short time.
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The devices will allow national park staff to monitor rhino movements 24 hours a day.
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Commissions and inquiries are rarely more than a device to allow politicians to put off taking decisions.
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Passport schemes are a price discrimination device which allows subsidies to be directed towards target groups.
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This means that these devices actually allow pregnancies to begin and then abort them, a notion out of line with biblical concepts.
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We are evaluating a more sophisticated electronic device which allows the entire theatre team at risk to be monitored with minimal inconvenience.
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His idea of heaven would be for some one to design a device which would allow him to read a book in there.
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A security device might allow one person to enter, but phone the police if it detects a known burglar.
fit
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Doors will now have to be fitted with special safety devices to prevent people or objects getting trapped in them.
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If it's a dangerous model Candy will send an engineer within 10 days to fit a safety device .
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Most modern household appliances, such as washing machines and dishwashers are already fitted with non-return devices .
leave
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This is a specific form of market failure, since the market left to its own devices does not give sufficient knowledge.
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I was left to my own devices .
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She knew that I was perfectly capable of having the whole thing made in black leatherette if left to my own devices .
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On the days when I am left to my own devices I am a bit of a disgrace really.
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The flies are allowed to settle on the surface and are left to their own devices .
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The global economy, left to its own devices , generates enormous wealth and poverty at the same time.
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The implementation or administrative process is far too important to be left to its own devices .
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Users generally complained that, once treatment was over, they were left to their own devices in the community.
listen
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It even supplies baby listening devices .
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The businessman was then wired with a listening device and given $ 30, 000 to offer Mr Tucker.
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Former officers ofthe service who carried out the bugging told Berlin's Tagesspiel newspaper that they used automatic radio listening devices .
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Although listening devices and seismic instruments were put in place, efforts to pinpoint the source of the noise were unsuccessful.
use
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A number of brewers now use a device called a cask breather on low volume beers to prolong their life.
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Some use other devices to prop the branches.
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Police said the bombers may have planned to use those unexploded devices in pursuit of their plot.
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Sometimes different sequences may need quite marked adjustment using filters and other devices to achieve the right harmonious effect.
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They used the devices of anthropology, sociology, history, and biology trying to prove that Negroes were inferior.
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Aren't you more likely to enter or retrieve information about an appointment or contact using the device itself?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
early warning system/device etc
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Into this would be built an early warning system to keep the business on the right financial track.
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She wondered if she had developed an early warning system since the fiasco with Marcus.
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The antibody test is the best early warning device available.
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Their fortunes may thereby serve as an early warning system to humankind of previously unrecognized environmental problems.
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They have an early warning system.
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This knowledge also improves early warning systems for the events.
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Timely recognition of emerging infections requires early warning systems to detect new infectious diseases before they become public health crises.
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Use was made of facilities for communications, intelligence gathering, and early warning systems.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a device for controlling temperature
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a birth control device
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a thermostatic device for controlling temperature
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An EEG is a device that records electrical activity in the brain.
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an explosive device
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Commissions and inquiries are little more than a device to allow politicians to put off taking decisions.
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Four of the victims received serious injuries when the device ripped through one of the station's lavatories.
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He used every device possible to prevent inspectors from entering the premises.
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Police found the device hidden in a suitcase.
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Rahman uses dreams as a device to fill in the characters' backgrounds.
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The farmers there still use the 'Archimedes Screw', an ancient device for raising water from a lake or well.
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The National Association for Elevator Safety says that most elevators have safety devices that prevent free-falls.
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The phone call was just a device to keep him from leaving.
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They were both aware that there might be listening devices hidden in the room.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A series of simple push-buttons on the solid state device enables the required temperature range to be set precisely.
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Cop shop: Police have opened their own cop shop at Darlington police station to sell personal attack alarms and security devices.
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Moulton said retrofitting could be done, at a cost of about $ 150 for the add-on device .
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Newton has always been positioned as a handheld communications device .
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Recommendations can be made or applications recorded easily with the device using drop-down menus and templates.
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Severe penalties were introduced for abortions and the sale of contraceptive devices.
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The device was removed from the shop and detonated in a controlled explosion.
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What is sought is a device .