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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.

Text


Definition:

  • (n.) A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or commentary.
  • (n.) The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence.
  • (n.) A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
  • (n.) Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme.
  • (n.) A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text.
  • (v. t.) To write in large characters, as in text hand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The IgG index (formula: see text) corrects for the influence of serum protein abnormalities as well as a bloodbrain barrier damage and is, therefore, a better measure for the presence of an IgG elevation in CSF due to IgG synthesis, when compared with other IgG quotients commonly used.
  • (2) Sara Tomlinson, 45, received a text message from her 16 year old daughter Katie at about 3pm.
  • (3) It is of particular interest that in this paraprotein the major component is a biantennary complex-type oligosaccharide that lacks a fucose residue and an oligosaccharide with the structure (Formula: see text) exists as one of the most abundant components.
  • (4) The properties of these tumour-associated "antigens" in the membrane of rat sarcomata are summarized below: [Table: see text]
  • (5) A text generation produces acceptable German reports.
  • (6) The “100% Australian-made” text on packaging has been enlarged to appeal to customer patriotism.
  • (7) It is microcomputer-based, and more easily set up and administered than the drifting-text procedure.
  • (8) In this connection the question about the contribution of each word of length l (l-tuple) to the inhomogeneity of genetic text arises.
  • (9) She devoured political science texts, took evening classes at Goldsmiths college, and performed at protests and fundraisers, but became disillusioned.
  • (10) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
  • (11) Disagreements over the language of the text continued throughout Friday.
  • (12) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
  • (13) The reaction sequence leading from EAC1-9 to ghosts can be summarized as follows: formula: (see text).
  • (14) The O-polysaccharide was found to be a high molecular weight polymer of a repeating pentasaccharide unit composed of D-mannose, D-galactose, L-rhamnose, 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucose, and 2-acetamido-2,3-dideoxy-3-formamido-D-rhamnose residues (1:1:1:1:1) and had the structure: [formula: see text]
  • (15) Patterns of change and variability in text recall performance were assessed in seven elderly women by testing them weekly for up to 2 years.
  • (16) Ensuring residents have multiple ways to pay (such as via a text message or through a smartphone app) will also be important as they offer residents the control they feel they have with cash and can be used to top up a direct debit.
  • (17) Aware that her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, a former labour correspondent for the Guardian who understood the range of attitudes within trade unions, had tried to soften the impression that she saw Kinnock as another General Galtieri [Argentina’s president during the Falklands war], the draft text tried to distinguish between unions, rival parties and what the final text (the one she actually delivered) called “an organised revolutionary minority” with their “outmoded Marxist dogma about class warfare”.
  • (18) Usually the condition for quasi-equilibrium is expressed in terms of the rate constants around EHR: (formula: see text) i.e.
  • (19) Subjects read text passages and occasionally responded to lexical-decision probes.
  • (20) Purified U3B RNA was subjected to various enzymatic digestion procedures, including digests of 32P-labeled U3B RNA, RNA ligase, and polynucleotide kinase labeling, for determination of its primary sequence which is: (formula: see text).