Sentences with phrase «higher decibel»

There's also odds on what the highest decibel level shown will be, with the over / under set at 135.5 and -140 on over.

Shushing — The louder the baby is crying, the louder you must shush, don't worry, your baby is used to the high decibels in utero.

(Much like high decibel sounds can only be heard by dogs...)

It is striking and stalls out fashion lovers seeking a high decibel transformation this period.

Despite this, he does see apps like Tinder and Happn as «a threat», making reference to the «high decibel campaign» Happn is currently running in the market.

The best way to look at the Z today is as an eye - catching coupe with many of the extrovert features of recent supercars — blistering performance, poor visibility aft, a stiff ride, steering that often demands both hands, high decibel output, room for one passenger and barely a weekend's worth of clothing, and an exciting driving experience — but with the price and the drip - dry reliability of a family sedan.

However, take the Yaris for a highway trip and you'll experience pretty high decibel levels.

That said, civil defense sirens at close range (100 feet) or for extended periods that would occur during a disaster can be damaging to the ear drum due to the high decibel (sound pressure) level required for the warning sirens.

It was Kimmelman who really got the argument up to the high decibel, and he was a new critic at that time.

Each speaker has its own amp, allowing the Phone to be pushed to higher decibels without distortion.

These devices connect to a control panel and high decibel alarms.

In residential areas, people can voice their opinions through these letters as well against any kind of activity which releases noise of very high decibels.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.

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At his new church, several hundred worshippers showed up in jeans on a recent Sunday to listen to high - decibel Christian rock from plush stadium - style seats.

Concerning Nicaragua, it means that we listen less to high - decibel advocates for the administration and for the Sandinistas, and we listen more to people who offer ways to peace without supposing that all would be well if only Managua would cry «Uncle,» or if only Washington would emulate a dove.

The Death of the West is a high «decibel jeremiad that calls the sullenly resentful to stop whining and man the barricades.

These types of toys include cap guns, musical toys, toy phones, horns, sirens, and even squeaky rubber toys, which can produce noise as high as 90 to 120 decibels.

Other groups, some even more marginal, have filled the mailboxes of grass - roots conservatives with similar high - decibel appeals.

Despite the high - decibel campaign, Kent was not seen at the ceremony.

They have the highest rated protection available at 34 decibels and are great for the shooting range and many other situations.

Measured in decibels (dB), the higher the rating, the more sound it shuts out.

It's measured in decibels (dB), and higher is better.

In countries of eastern Europe that have joined the EU more recently, the level has been set slightly higher, at 55 decibels, to allow them to adapt.

For example, high - pitched tones that we can detect at a mere 30 decibels when we are young have to be boosted to an earsplitting 90 decibels for the elderly to hear.

He found that snoring that exceeds 49 decibels indicated a high risk of sleep apnea.

But during the day, whale watch boats, snorkeling charters, and naval ships produced volumes of sound up to 45 decibels higher than the natural nautical noises.

As governments and industries expand their use of high - decibel seismic surveys to explore the ocean bottom for resources, experts from eight universities and environmental organizations are calling for new global standards and mitigation strategies.

«New international standards needed to manage ocean noise: Growing use of high - decibel seismic surveys to explore the ocean for resources poses increased risks to vulnerable marine life, experts say.»

The high - decibel, screeching roar of this gas flare blasting from a pipe at an oil well is repeated at more than 1,500 wells across the Bakken — throwing off enough light to be seen from orbiting satellites.

The fluctuation in levels can be as high as 10 to 12 decibels.»

The high - decibel dispute between Shell and Greenpeace earlier this summer about the state of the deep ocean off western Scotland, where Shell wanted to dump the redundant oil storage rig, has set off a fascinating debate about the deep ocean.

NIHL can be caused by a one - time exposure to a loud sound or continued exposure to high - decibel noises.

THURSDAY, April 19, 2018 (HealthDay News)-- High - decibel music blasting at big concert venues is a known cause of short - term hearing loss.

Concertgoers imbibed an average of four drinks during the concert, and the more inebriated they became, the more likely they were to get closer to high - decibel speakers.

A lot of power tools easily generate a decibel rating high enough to warrant hearing protection.

It's played broad, which is to say that everyone acts like they're being defibrillated every five minutes, leading to a lot of high - decibel screeching and running around in circles.

The almost unnecessary plot isn't much of a hindrance to the film (its short - shrifting goes almost entirely unnoticed), which is, after all, just a series of high - decibel Chris Tucker improvisations alternating with a series of truncated Jackie Chan action moments.

It's too dramatic and it verges dangerously on the convenient, but there's a humanistic impulse at the heart of the piece that informs the performances and carries it past its high - decibel epiphanies.

Even the construction noise can't mask an indoor decibel level higher than what would be acceptable in most high school classrooms.

Gov. Brown ended three years of high - decibel battles in the Legislature on Wednesday by signing a bill he helped shape that should make it quicker and easier to fire teachers accused of the most abhorrent forms of misconduct.

In the video below, presumably created in response to an abundance of customer complaints, Porsche explains that its cars are precisely engineered to the highest standards of excellence but brake squeal is «one decibel - driven disturbance that has been misunderstood for far too long.»

There are 7,500 revolutions to play with, plus that optional extra-loud exhaust system acting as mobile speaker array, and yet your ears feast primarily on a dense mix of high - decibel buzz and jarring, bassy rasp.

Other modifications worth mentioning are a high - strength crankshaft inspired by the 919 Le Mans race car, the free - flow air filter, and the redesigned large - diameter exhaust, which is at best a half - decibel short of disturbing the peace.

You've got two exhaust options with the car — with mufflers or without — and the biggest difference between the two is the decibel level of the four - banger's high - rpm snarl.

The Pro's loudness ranks higher than the 80 - decibel tablet category average.

The XD is just as loud as the Kurio 10s and louder than the 74 - dB Kindle Fire HDX, though both the Excite Pure and tablet category average are slightly higher at 80 decibels.

On the Laptop Mag Audio Test, the Yoga Tablet 2 hit 90 decibels, which is a lot higher than the 79 dB average.

A 15 - minute walk away in the Frieze Masters tent, where decibel levels were lower and prices higher, Christophe Van de Weghe, a New York dealer, stood in front of a $ 6.9 million painting by Roy Lichtenstein depicting Donald Duck with dollar - signs in his eyes.

The highest reading was 44 decibels, which was characterized as about the same level as a 10 mile / hour (16 km / h) wind.»

Over the next five the seven days, the count of noise measurements higher than three sigma decibels higher than the average background noise for the street, more than doubles.