Stylus

Definition

stylus /'staÇlǝs/ n ( pl styluses ) ဓာတ္စက္အပ္။ ကညစ္။

Examples

1. ‘I also still have every one of the 14 diamond styli that it ever used.’
2. ‘All his recordings were made using the ‘acoustic method’ - singing in front of a large horn
3. connected to a recording diaphragm and cutting stylus
4. which cut a groove in a rotating wax disc.’
5. ‘Executed in the same flat
6. almost naïve style
7. the stylus emerges from the right hand side almost threateningly
8. bearing down on the record.’
9. ‘Another stylus was used to play back the recording turning the indentations on the cylinder into sound.’
10. ‘During this period all the energy available to drive the stylus which etched out the recorded wave-forms was ‘acoustic energy’: that is
11. it came from the sound waves themselves.’
12. ‘For writing
13. they used a stylus and a wax tablet.’
14. ‘A metal stylus was used for scratching characters onto a wax tablet.’
15. ‘Using a reed stylus
16. they made wedge-shaped impressions on wet clay tablets which were then baked in the sun.’
17. ‘The small number of numerical symbols was
18. to a large extent
19. controlled by the method of writing numbers using a blunt stylus with a circular section to impress marks on wet clay.’
20. ‘In the thirteenth-century Roman de la Rose
21. for example
22. Genius encourages men to propagate the species by using their styluses to write on the tablets that Nature has prepared for them.’
23. ‘Writing first on heavy clay with fragile reed styluses led the Sumerians to simplify their drawings.’
24. ‘The next significant development began around 3
25. 100 B.C. when a pointed stylus was used to incise pictures of tokens in clay tablets instead of impressing the tokens themselves.’
26. ‘He seized his stylus and scratched twenty coppers from the total on his tablet.’
27. ‘It is said to have developed originally as a means of writing with a stylus on palm leaves
28. which would split if incised with a straight line.’
29. ‘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).’
30. ‘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.’
31. ‘A stylus is a pen that comes with a drawing pad
32. which is connected to the computer.’
33. ‘The server software also records hand movements through wind changes directly above the tablet when the stylus is not touching it.’
34. ‘Similar to a pen in shape
35. the stylus is a long accessory used to enter data into the programmer's LCD.’
36. ‘He used the palm pilot as his tablet
37. but his stylus was a plastic space-age contemporary version of the traditional reed pen.’