What's the difference between letter and tail?

Letter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
  • (n.) One who retards or hinders.
  • (n.) A mark or character used as the representative of a sound, or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a first element of written language.
  • (n.) A written or printed communication; a message expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle.
  • (n.) A writing; an inscription.
  • (n.) Verbal expression; literal statement or meaning; exact signification or requirement.
  • (n.) A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.
  • (n.) Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters.
  • (n.) A letter; an epistle.
  • (v. t.) To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
  • (2) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
  • (3) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
  • (4) And, according to a letter leaked to the BBC last week , he reckons he has found one: default-on.
  • (5) Fry's letter was also delivered to the Lausanne headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, by Guillaume Bonnet of the campaign group All Out .
  • (6) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
  • (7) We have much more fighting to do!” Now Cherwell is preparing to publish letters or articles from other students who have been inspired to open up about their own ordeals.
  • (8) The reported study demonstrates that performance asymmetries between normal or reflected letters presented in the right and left visual field favors the right visual field when stimulus patterns are blocked and rotated 90 degrees clockwise and favors the left visual field when they are blocked and rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
  • (9) The letters of discharge or the case records were obtained for all patients under one year for the entire period and for all patients over one year for the period 1984-1986, a total of 627 persons.
  • (10) But under Comey’s FBI, the agency has continued to disregard the justice department’s legal opinion, and to this day, demands tech companies hand it all sorts of data under due-process free National Security Letters.
  • (11) The letter to Florence Nightingale was written by Bernita Decker as part of a nursing course assignment for our Nurse Educator advisor, Betty Pugh.
  • (12) A letter Acosta received warned her of a Snap cut of $11 for each family member in November.
  • (13) However, the law minister indicated he would allow the supreme court to approve a draft of the letter.
  • (14) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
  • (15) The prime minister sent back a letter dismissing his allegations.
  • (16) She kept it up for three years, until her son's letters finally persuaded her to cut down to one day a week.
  • (17) The letter praised the company's progress in responding to the inspection.
  • (18) The letters, seen by Guardian Money, state that the French-owned company is conducting a review of customer records to make sure all its information is up to date.
  • (19) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
  • (20) "Fifa received a letter via email and fax from the Costa Rica FA on March 24 with regards to the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier played on March 22 between USA and Costa Rica," Fifa said.

Tail


Definition:

  • (n.) Limitation; abridgment.
  • (a.) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
  • (n.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
  • (n.) Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
  • (n.) Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
  • (n.) A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
  • (n.) The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression "heads or tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall.
  • (n.) The distal tendon of a muscle.
  • (n.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
  • (n.) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; -- called also tailing.
  • (n.) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
  • (n.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
  • (n.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
  • (n.) Same as Tailing, 4.
  • (n.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
  • (n.) See Tailing, n., 5.
  • (v. t.) To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
  • (v. t.) To pull or draw by the tail.
  • (v. i.) To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
  • (v. i.) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The anatomic and functional development of the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) was studied in the gray short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica.
  • (2) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
  • (3) This behavior consists of a very rapid bend of the body and tail that is thought to arise from the monosynaptic excitation of large primary motoneurons by the Mauthner cell.
  • (4) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
  • (5) After isolation of the complex IV only gpFII and tails are required for mature phage formation in vitro.
  • (6) Earlier recognition of foul-smelling mucoid discharge on the IUD tail, or abnormal bleeding, or both, as a sign of early pelvic infection, followed by removal of the IUD and institution of appropriate antibiotic therapy, might prevent the more serious sequelae of pelvic inflammation.
  • (7) produced a strong analgesic effect in the formalin test and in the tail pinch test.
  • (8) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .
  • (9) Body weight (BW) and nose-tail length were less in the hypoxic exposed (H) rats than in control (C) animals growing in air.
  • (10) Nitrous oxide produced a dose-related analgesic response in rats (ED50, 67%) as measured by the tail-flick method.
  • (11) A total of 23 phage specific proteins (including four head and six tail proteins) could be identified after SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of extracts from phage SPP1 infected Bacillus subtilis cells.
  • (12) g (SD 0.15, N = 21), which was similar to tail skin.
  • (13) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
  • (14) The patients' preoperative clinical status affected the results of surgery (Breslow p less than 0.03, Mantel p less than 0.02; one-tailed tests).
  • (15) These apparent conflicting results between IK and the tail current could not be explained by extracellular K+ fluctuation, because 20 mM Cs+ alone depressed both factors, but an additional application of Ba2+ caused an increase in both components compared with those in the former condition.
  • (16) Some of them situated in a particular environment fused with the tail sequence to produce monomeric ubiquitin genes that were maintained across species.
  • (17) Deletion of a carboxyl-terminal sequence, comprising the transmembrane domain and short cytoplasmic tail of the alpha chain of the T cell antigen receptor (TCR-alpha), prevented the rapid degradation of this polypeptide.
  • (18) We have investigated enhancement of pigmentation in inbred C3H- mice using tail skin as a model for testing the effects of phosphorylated DOPA (DP) and ultraviolet radiation.
  • (19) Diltiazem also produced a slight decrease of both the steady-state current during depolarization and the tail current after repolarization in these concentration ranges, while the hyperpolarization activated current (Ih) was not affected significantly.
  • (20) A fluorescent fucose-specific lectin-stained bodies and not tails of the organism.