(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.
Parcel
Definition:
(n.) A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
(n.) A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.
(n.) An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
(n.) A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet.
(v. t.) To divide and distribute by parts or portions; -- often with out or into.
(v. t.) To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
(v. t.) To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc.
(a. & adv.) Part or half; in part; partially. Shak. [Sometimes hyphened with the word following.]
Example Sentences:
(1) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
(2) The anterior division can be further parcellated into dorsal, lateral, and ventral areas, and each of these areas, along with the posterior division, can be thought of as containing more-or-less discrete nuclei embedded within a relatively undifferentiated region.
(3) Cortical lamination and parcellation of the anterogenual region in the human brain is studied in sections successively stained for nerve cells (15 micrometers), myelin sheaths (100 micrometers), and lipofuscin granules (800 micrometers).
(4) "Amazingly my mobile number was on it, so they were inquiring where they should deliver the parcel," they added.
(5) Roy Perticucci, vice-president of Amazon’s EU operations, declined to comment on reports that its service had led to a 20% drop in Royal Mail’s parcel volumes in some localities, citing commercial confidentiality.
(6) A cyto- and myeloarchitectonic parcellation of the superior temporal sulcus and surrounding cortex in the rhesus monkey has been correlated with the pattern of afferent cortical connections from ipsilateral temporal, parietal and occipital lobes, studied by both silver impregnation and autoradiographic techniques.
(7) Death and injury are part and parcel of this job, Suge says.
(8) Bundled up in the complex debt parcels lurked the venom which has poisoned the banks.
(9) The present results show that, like rodents, the trigeminal nucleus principalis of humans contains a parcellated pattern of cytochrome oxidase dense patches.
(10) It was released by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees and shows what happened when aid workers tried to give out food parcels at Yarmouk refugee camp on the edge of Damascus.
(11) But love him or hate him, by delivering the parcels and fixing the plumbing, WVM kept the economy ticking over.
(12) The republican terror alliance known as the New IRA admitted responsibility for a series of parcel bombs sent to army recruitment offices across England.
(13) It will be streamed live here: Monetary Policy Committee August 2013 Inflation Report My colleague Andrew Sparrow will be live-blogging the whole session here: Mark Carney gives evidence to the Commons Treasury committee: Politics live blog 9.52am BST This graphic shows how most of the Royal Mail's revenues come from its parcels and letters divisions, although its European parcels business, GLS, makes a decent contribution (with revenue of £1.5m, out of a total pie of over £9bn.
(14) Hundreds of postcards, letters and parcels arrived, carrying not only words but also books, photographs, maps, stories and poems.
(15) Comparison of these results with published findings indicates that the parcellation of the peristriate cortex into a variety of different areas, the pattern formed by these areas around area 17, and their reciprocal connections with area 17 follow a common plan in all hitherto studied terrestrial Old World and New World rodents.
(16) Much less can I imagine where people find the strength to come to work in the middle of a war and distribute food parcels and emergency kits to the displaced while they worry for the safety of their families at home.
(17) Hermes, the parcel delivery giant which uses 10,500 self-employed couriers, is currently facing an HM Revenue and Customs investigation following multiple allegations from couriers that they should be classed as workers or employees rather than contractors.
(18) HJK said the request was "strange" but they volunteered their address thinking the parcel must have come from one of their family.
(19) This issue is considered in the context of recent findings on the generation of the neocortex and its subsequent parcellation into distinct areas.
(20) We propose that a useful parcellation of shapes into parts can be obtained by decomposing the shape boundary into the largest convex surface patches and the smallest nonconvex surface patches.