(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.
Monkey
Definition:
(n.) In the most general sense, any one of the Quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs.
(n.) Any species of Quadrumana, except the lemurs.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of Quadrumana (esp. such as have a long tail and prehensile feet) exclusive of apes and baboons.
(n.) A term of disapproval, ridicule, or contempt, as for a mischievous child.
(n.) The weight or hammer of a pile driver, that is, a very heavy mass of iron, which, being raised on high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.
(n.) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
(v. t. & i.) To act or treat as a monkey does; to ape; to act in a grotesque or meddlesome manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
(2) Estimates of potential for gastrointestinal side effects using the rat enteropooling assay and in vivo monkey effects indicate that diarrhea will be substantially reduced with retention of uterine stimulating potency.
(3) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
(4) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
(5) Examinations, begun at day 150 of gestation in 33 monkeys and between days 32 and 58 in four other animals, were repeated at intervals of one to seven days.
(6) Adult nonpregnant female rhesus monkeys fed purified diets containing 100 or 4 ppm zinc for 1 yr were mated then studied through midgestation.
(7) Two lectins, wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and peanut agglutinin (PNA), were used to compare domains within the interphotoreceptor matrices (IPM) of the cat and monkey, two species where the morphological relationship between the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors is distinctly different.
(8) Electroretinographic (ERG), morphometric and biochemical studies on retinas from monkeys or rats reveal that moderate level developmental lead (Pb) exposure produces long-term selective rod deficits and degeneration.
(9) Furthermore, the effect of immunization was examined in monkeys previously given fluoride in their diet and which had developed a low incidence of dental caries when offered a human type of diet containing about 15 per cent sucrose.
(10) Rhesus monkey BAT mitochondria (BATM) possess an uncoupling protein that is characteristic of BAT as evidenced by the binding of [3H]GDP, the inhibition by GDP of the high Cl- permeability or rapid alpha-glycerol-3-phosphate oxidation.
(11) 65% of the cAMP injected into the amniotic fluid of 2 monkeys remained after 1 hour.
(12) Features of the human disease, however, including hyperinfection syndrome, can be produced by S. stercoralis in the Patas monkey and in dogs.
(13) Twelve monkeys, Macaca fascicularis and Macaca mulatta, were investigated to study their renal microvasculature.
(14) Several types of neurons were differentiated on the basis of a study of neuronal activity in various parts of the cortex near the sulcus principalis during the execution of spatial delayed reactions by monkeys.
(15) Asian macaques are susceptible to fatal simian AIDS from a type D retrovirus, indigenous in macaques, and from a lentivirus, simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which is indigenous to healthy African monkeys.
(16) Neurons in deprived puffs and interpuffs were generally similar in size to those in nondeprived regions, although CO-reactive cells were significantly smaller in the deprived puffs of monkeys enucleated for 28.5 or 60 wks.
(17) Regardless of the habitual diet, a test meal accentuated the rate of triacylglycerol appearance in whole plasma and in the very low density lipoproteins of Triton WR-1339-treated monkeys, and the rate of increase of the protein component after feeding was slightly higher.
(18) The genetic management of the African green monkey breeding colony was discussed in relation to the difference in distribution of phenotypes of M and ABO blood groups between the parental (wild-originated) and the first filial (colony-born) populations.
(19) Recordings were made from secondary vestibular axons in the medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF) of barbiturate-anesthetized squirrel monkeys.
(20) The influence of intravitreal injection of a small amount of l-ornithine hydrochloride in monkey eyes has been investigated morphologically.