What's the difference between mail and mil?

Mail


Definition:

  • (n.) A spot.
  • (n.) A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V.
  • (n.) Rent; tribute.
  • (n.) A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.
  • (n.) Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.
  • (n.) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
  • (n.) Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
  • (v. t.) To arm with mail.
  • (v. t.) To pinion.
  • (n.) A bag; a wallet.
  • (n.) The bag or bags with the letters, papers, papers, or other matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post office to another; the whole system of appliances used by government in the conveyance and delivery of mail matter.
  • (n.) That which comes in the mail; letters, etc., received through the post office.
  • (n.) A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
  • (v. t.) To deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail; to post; as, to mail a letter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The response rate to a mailed questionnaire was 90%.
  • (2) He also challenged Lord Mandelson's claim this morning that a controversial vote on Royal Mail would have to be postponed due to lack of parliamentary time.
  • (3) The Press Association tots up a total of £26bn in asset sales last year – including the state’s Eurostar stake, 30% of the Royal Mail and a slice of Lloyds.
  • (4) Cases were matched by age, year of diagnosis, and stage of the lesion, and personal, reproductive, and contraceptive data were obtained by mailed questionnaires.
  • (5) Last week, the Daily Mail reported that judges at the human rights court had handed 202 criminals "taxpayer-funded payouts of £4.4m – an average of £22,000 a head".
  • (6) Cable says that institutional investors would have been inspecting Royal Mail for some time, adding that it's a standard length document for an IPO of this type.
  • (7) Royal Mail has pledged not to give Greene a large pay rise until after the current financial year, but the government's move follows Royal Mail chairman Donald Brydon telling the Daily Telegraph this week that Greene was the "lowest-paid chief executive in the FTSE 100" and that a rise in her pay was necessary to keep her.
  • (8) A self-report questionnaire was administered to students at a large midwestern university and distributed to and returned from parents by mail.
  • (9) Even before she gets to the Timeless premiere, the Mail Online has run two news stories on her that day: the first detailing what she was wearing in the morning, the second furnishing a grateful world with the news that she'd subsequently changed her outfit and taken her sunglasses off.
  • (10) The Mail branded the deal "a grim day for all who value freedom" and, like the Times, accused David Cameron of crossing the Rubicon and threatening press freedom for the first time since newspapers were licensed in the 17th century.
  • (11) The government will formally begin the sale of Royal Mail on Thursday by announcing its intention to float the 497-year-old postal service on the London Stock Exchange.
  • (12) Results of analyses for cell surface antigens on lymphocytes and for cellular DNA content were reported to the College of American Pathologists Computer Center and the summary data were mailed to participants.
  • (13) These are counts of cases from a mail survey, not from a research-based study.
  • (14) The European court of human rights has accused British newspapers, including the Daily Mail, of publishing "seriously misleading" reports.
  • (15) Cameron spoke out after the Daily Mail published claims that the union had a "leverage" unit as part of its campaign to negotiate better pay and conditions for staff at Grangemouth.
  • (16) The subjects responded to a mail survey that defined before surgery and after recovery functioning in relation to 22 activities of daily living representing personal care, housework-yard work, and recreation-social activities.
  • (17) The Communication Workers Union (CWU), which represents postal workers, has vowed to fight the sale, which it says will lead to a "worse deal for customers, staff and thousands of small businesses dependent on the Royal Mail".
  • (18) 5.53pm GMT MPs to seek answers from Royal Mail shareholders And finally, the House of Commons business committee plans to write to large investors in Royal Mail to ask for their views on the flotation of the postal service .
  • (19) 183 surveys were mailed; 114 (68%) were completed and returned.
  • (20) In this research, 244 registered nurses rated the benefits and identified the costs of CNE via a mailed survey.

Mil


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A variety of homobifunctional crosslinking agents have been used to gain insight into the nature of the murine interleukin 3 (mIL-3) receptor.
  • (2) We have previously shown that a spontaneous mutant of MH2 (PA200-MH2), expressing only the v-mil oncogene, is able to induce proliferation of quiescent neuroretina cells.
  • (3) Recombinant mIL 1 beta, administered as a single i.v.
  • (4) In contrast, after induction of tumors in quail with mil-deficient MH2 viral stocks, a majority of the tumor DNAs contained mil+ proviruses, suggesting that there is selection for retention of the v-mil gene in vivo and that the mil protein may play a role in the oncogenicity of MH2 virus.
  • (5) The prevalence of myasthenia gravis (MG) in Finland was 264 patients per 4.7 mil.
  • (6) By phase separation and analysis, tie-lines for the constituent phase in the two-phase zone demonstrated that the mixed micelles were saturated with MIL and Ch and the coexisting vesicles were saturated with MBS, but not with Ch.
  • (7) Both rheologically effective substances show side effects, but they lie in the per-mil-range.
  • (8) There are differences, however, between MIL and MIB in the sequence organization of their unconventional C-terminal domains.
  • (9) TA-2 also inhibited adhesion to EC activated with mIL-1 alpha, TNF-alpha, and LPS, and the adhesion of spleen T cells to activated EC.
  • (10) Single subcutaneous injections of a mineral oil adjuvant vaccine containing 20 mg dry weight of Campylobacter fetus subsp fetus biotype venerealis cells and 20 mg dry weight of C. fetus subsp fetus biotype intermedius cells per 5 mil dose protected 2- and 3-year-old heifers and 3- and 4-year-old cows against genital infection with either organism.
  • (11) The inhibition of mIL-1 expression was noted in response to both autoreactive T-cell lines specific for class I or class II MHC determinants as well as bacterial endotoxin.
  • (12) Intracellular processing studies carried out in the presence and absence of methylamine suggested that mIL-3 is cleaved at two specific sites before its complete digestion within lysosomes.
  • (13) Ternary lipid systems were composed of a physiological mixture of bile salts (BS), mixed intestinal lipids (MIL), principally partially ionized fatty (oleic) acid (FA) plus racemic monooleylglycerol (MG), and cholesterol (Ch), all at fixed aqueous-electrolyte concentrations, pH, temperature, and pressure.
  • (14) Murine interleukin-3 (mIL-3) is a lymphokine that stimulates the proliferation and differentiation of both pluripotent hemopoietic stem cells and their committed progeny.
  • (15) In dogs pretreated with total spinal anesthesia or phenoxybenzamine, MIL significantly decreased both MCP and TPR.
  • (16) MIL shifted the right ventricular output curve to the left and upward and shifted the venous return curve to the left and rotated it clockwise.
  • (17) In a totally serum-free culture condition, mIL-7 produced a similar cellular proliferation, whereas hIL-7 was much less effective.
  • (18) The hemodynamic response to Mil was also examined in rats treated with the ACE inhibitor.
  • (19) Using albumin as a molecular clock, we estimated B. bombina and B. variegata diverged within the last million years, whereas the B. orientalis lineage diverged roughly 10-12 mil yr ago.
  • (20) Two distinct c-mil-related cDNA clones have been isolated from a chicken embryo cDNA library.

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