(n.) A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest.
(n.) A bill tied to goods, containing some direction, as the name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be sent; a label.
(n.) An abridged entry of a judgment or proceeding in an action, or register or such entries; a book of original, kept by clerks of courts, containing a formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of the proceedings, in each case in court.
(n.) A list or calendar of causes ready for hearing or trial, prepared for the use of courts by the clerks.
(n.) A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly.
(v. t.) To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and indorse it on the back of the paper, or to indorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers.
(v. t.) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed.
(v. t.) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
(v. t.) To mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison with the weekly docket system, chosen as a reference method, validated the self-questionnaire.
(2) Although the case against Carl was initially removed from the court docket, it was reinstated because forensic evidence and reports from the accident scene became available, the prosecution said.
(3) If they do make it, they’ll get sent back.” Kathryn Mattingly, a spokeswoman for the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), said that since the end of July, 39 immigration courts across the country, including in Hawaii, California, Texas, Omaha, Cleveland and New York, have juvenile dockets with cases pending.
(4) A hearing this week on the 17th floor of an immigration court in downtown LA highlighted one major issue: three of the five juveniles on the docket were not present.
(5) We hope that a trial date is also discussed but don’t yet know how the court’s docket is looking.” Peterson is hoping for a quick trial date or he will likely miss the rest of the season.
(6) "None of the objections, whether filed on the objections docket or elsewhere, have shown the Settlement to be anything other than fair, reasonable and adequate," he wrote.
(7) That’s despite the AFP having investigated former speaker Peter Slipper in 2012 over allegations he misused taxi dockets.
(8) This longitudinal database was compiled following a systematic search of all available docket books from the superior courts and mental health records from the state hospitals in Connecticut beginning in January 1970.
(9) Earlier this year, the Justice Department announced plans to move cases of unaccompanied immigrant children to the top of the docket.
(10) One man in a yellow football shirt held a crime docket marked "GBH" and "beer bottle".
(11) They are called “rocket dockets”, and ricochet through immigration courts in what critics say is a blur of confusion, anxiety and frustration.
(12) As soon as Friday, the supreme court may add Miller’s lawsuit to its docket.
(13) Most often, county court dockets were hand searched to identify those pleading insanity, although numerous other methodologies were used.
(14) The case was settled out of court and dismissed from the docket in April 2011, and the details were sealed.
(15) "They've handed over reams and reams of documents – emails, payment dockets, expenses forms, payslips, you name it.
(16) One man is wearing a yellow football shirt and jeans and holding a docket for a case of GBH involving a beer bottle.
(17) The manufacturers do print warnings on their quotations and their delivery dockets, but the serious nature of some cement burns is not stressed.
(18) Research data were obtained from court dockets filed with Wisconsin's Patients Compensation Panel and from 281 attorneys who provided the age for 431 claimants.
(19) While the government is expected to appeal the decision later on Friday, Kessler ordered that the public versions of the tapes to be released obscure “all faces other than Mr Dhiab’s, voices, names, etc.” The unclassified version of the videos “may then be entered on the public docket,” Kessler wrote.
(20) So when News Corporation volunteered all these documents from the Sun – these payslips, dockets, you name it – I think they were kind of hoping they'd find evidence of a similar scandal at the Sun.
Locket
Definition:
(n.) A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament.
(n.) A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Elizabeth I's locket ring It was commissioned and worn by Elizabeth, who constantly reminded her subjects throughout her reign that she was the daughter and heir of Henry VIII.
(2) When I turned 40, my mother gave me – this was at my request; she's not a total weirdo – a Victorian mourning locket, made of jet.