Crossword-Solution: POLYGRAPH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Polygraph | n. | An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine. |
| Polygraph | n. | In bibliography, a collection of different works, either by one or several authors. |
| Polygraph | n. | An instrument for detecting deceptive statements by a subject, by measuring several physiological states of the subject, such as pulse, heartbeat, and sweating. The instrument records these parameters on a strip of paper while the subject is asked questions designed to elicit emotional responses when the subject tries to deceive the interrogator. Also called lie detector |
We have 6 clues for the answer “POLYGRAPH”
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| Detective's device | 1 answer |
| Medical instrument used for recording changes in heartbeat, breathing rate, and blood pressure | 1 answer |
| Something you shouldn't take lying down? | 1 answer |
| Test required for all C.I.A. applicants ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 1 answer |
| Lie detector | 2 answers |
| Storyteller | 40 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with POLYGRAPH (5)
Both auricular fibrillation and auricular flutter are best shown by the polygraph and the electrocardiograph.
Hawkins of Frankford, near Philadelphia, has invented a machine, which he calls a polygraph, and which carries two, three, or four pens.
That of two pens, with which I am now writing, is best; and is so perfect that I have laid aside the copying-press, for a twelvemonth past, and write always with the polygraph.
The sheets which you receive are those of the copying-pen of the polygraph, not of the one with which I have written.
Dear Sir, I believe that when you left America, the invention of the polygraph had not yet reached Boston.
Quotes with POLYGRAPH (3)
Jan Hindman knows all too well that people who have lied for decades about their offending would lie to her about being victimized as a child, so she compared the reports of abuse by child molesters who were not being polygraphed on their answers with a later group who was informed that they would have to take a polygraph after the interview. The group that was being polygraphed was also given immunity from prosecution for crimes previously unknown in order to take away one o…
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
I'm willing to take a polygraph test to prove that I'm happy about Kahlon's return to politics. He's a good man, a man who cares. It's good to have people like that in politics, I have no problem with that.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1998–2024).