(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.
Pail
Definition:
(n.) A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, ampicillin was dissolved in milk and pail fed 20 to 30 minutes following intramuscular atropine.
(2) Ampicillin was only detected in the plasma of calves which had received the drug, pail fed in milk.
(3) Sewage collected in these pails was often dumped overboard into the harvesting area.
(4) One of the panners, Martine Wandango, 25, bends over her pail of water as she filters out rocks and searches for ore. “You can only survive with money, and you can only find money from gold,” says Martine, who followed her husband to the delta 15 years ago by walking 60 miles over the mountains from their remote highland village.
(5) The presence of the 73,000 species previously assessed to be bound to poly(A) is discussed in view of the fact that histone mRNA does not contain a pail.
(6) Secondly, there were changes to the system of disposal of excrement from cesspits to poorly organized pail and single-pan schemes which led to the causal disposal of sewage in the street gutters.
(7) As the blood pressure was increased, pail arterioles constricted and cerebral blood flow remained relatively constant, showing that autoregulation of cerebral blood flow was intact.
(8) At the weekend the chair of the Harlow Conservative Association, Linda Pailing, summed up that attitude: "The voters are disillusioned with Cameron himself.
(9) Dangers such as bed- and tub-sharing, diaper and cleaning pails, plastic wrappers, balloons, small beds, toys on strings, broken or poorly designed cribs, and poorly positioned adult beds must be brought to the attention of the parent as consumer.
(10) Using a multiple baseline design with reversal conditions, social play was measured on four activities: pegs and pegboard, athletic ball, blocks, and water pail.
(11) Chickens were subjected to the sound produced by banging on a metal pail (104 decibels) for 30 seconds.
(12) A 41-year-old man noticed motor disturbances when he tried to lift a bath pail and to write on July, 1978.
(13) The first colostrum is best ingested when it is offered in a pail or bottle provided with a nipple.
(14) A shirtless addict who had just pissed into a pail in the corner helped me.
(15) Pregastric esterase activity was detected in reconstituted nonfat milk sham fed from a nipple pail to two 4-yr-old rumen-fistualted steers.
(16) Ampicillin was given orally to five Holstein calves using the following four different methods of administration: via stomach tube, mixed and fed in the calf starter ration, dissolved in milk and pail fed and administered orally as 400 mg commercial calf tablets.
(17) Highly reactive, vertically oriented, large diameter fibers were seen as groups between the outer portion of layer 5 and the pail surface.
(18) In three experiments, we examined why some idioms can be lexically altered and still retain their figurative meanings (e.g., John buttoned his lips about Mary can be changed into John fastened his lips about Mary and still mean "John didn't say anything about Mary"), whereas other idioms cannot be lexically altered without losing their figurative meanings (e.g., John kicked the bucket, meaning "John died," loses its idiomatic meaning when changed into John kicked the pail).
(19) At both ages the desipramine-treated and zimeldine-treated rats expressed lengthened immobility times in the water pail.
(20) The 'liquid-fed' group (LFG) was given from a pail a liquid suspension of the equivalent amount of the same concentrates as those fed to DFG calves, for the same periods.