stylus
/ˈstʌɪləs/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈstʌɪləs/
stylus
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
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- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Schwa vowel
- Ending
- Clear final sound
sty - lus -> stylus
Myanmar meaning
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- ‘I also still have every one of the 14 diamond styli that it ever used.’
- ‘All his recordings were made using the ‘acoustic method’ - singing in front of a large horn, connected to a recording diaphragm and cutting stylus, which cut a groove in a rotating wax disc.’
- ‘Executed in the same flat, almost naïve style, the stylus emerges from the right hand side almost threateningly, bearing down on the record.’
- ‘Another stylus was used to play back the recording turning the indentations on the cylinder into sound.’
- ‘During this period all the energy available to drive the stylus which etched out the recorded wave-forms was ‘acoustic energy’: that is, it came from the sound waves themselves.’
- ‘For writing, they used a stylus and a wax tablet.’
- ‘A metal stylus was used for scratching characters onto a wax tablet.’
- ‘Using a reed stylus, they made wedge-shaped impressions on wet clay tablets which were then baked in the sun.’
- ‘The small number of numerical symbols was, to a large extent, controlled by the method of writing numbers using a blunt stylus with a circular section to impress marks on wet clay.’
- ‘In the thirteenth-century Roman de la Rose, for example, Genius encourages men to propagate the species by using their styluses to write on the tablets that Nature has prepared for them.’
- ‘Writing first on heavy clay with fragile reed styluses led the Sumerians to simplify their drawings.’
- ‘The next significant development began around 3, 100 B.C. when a pointed stylus was used to incise pictures of tokens in clay tablets instead of impressing the tokens themselves.’
- ‘He seized his stylus and scratched twenty coppers from the total on his tablet.’
- ‘It is said to have developed originally as a means of writing with a stylus on palm leaves, which would split if incised with a straight line.’
- ‘The symbols were pressed into soft clay tablets with the slanted edge of a stylus and so had a wedge-shaped appearance (and hence the name cuneiform).’
- ‘It is a digital canvas which can be used with a mouse but really comes into its own when used with a pressure sensitive tablet and stylus.’
- ‘A stylus is a pen that comes with a drawing pad, which is connected to the computer.’
- ‘The server software also records hand movements through wind changes directly above the tablet when the stylus is not touching it.’
- ‘Similar to a pen in shape, the stylus is a long accessory used to enter data into the programmer's LCD.’
- ‘He used the palm pilot as his tablet, but his stylus was a plastic space-age contemporary version of the traditional reed pen.’
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