(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.
Warrant
Definition:
(n.) That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; commission; authority.
(n.) A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing.
(n.) A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice.
(n.) An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See Warrant officer, below.
(n.) That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty; security.
(n.) That which attests or proves; a voucher.
(n.) Right; legality; allowance.
(n.) To make secure; to give assurance against harm; to guarantee safety to; to give authority or power to do, or forbear to do, anything by which the person authorized is secured, or saved harmless, from any loss or damage by his action.
(n.) To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it.
(n.) To give a warrant or warranty to; to assure as if by giving a warrant to.
(n.) To secure to, as a grantee, an estate granted; to assure.
(n.) To secure to, as a purchaser of goods, the title to the same; to indemnify against loss.
(n.) To secure to, as a purchaser, the quality or quantity of the goods sold, as represented. See Warranty, n., 2.
(n.) To assure, as a thing sold, to the purchaser; that is, to engage that the thing is what it appears, or is represented, to be, which implies a covenant to make good any defect or loss incurred by it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
(2) "We have peace in Sierra Leone now, and Tony Blair made a huge contribution to that," said Warrant Officer Abu Bakerr Kamara.
(3) Currently there are no IOC approved definitive tests for these hormones but highly specific immunoassays combined with suitable purification techniques may be sufficient to warrant IOC approval.
(4) Utilization of inert materials like teflon, makrolon, and stainless steel warrants experimental and possibly clinical application of the developed small constrictor.
(5) And I want to do this in partnership with you.” In the Commons, there are signs the home secretary may manage to reduce a rebellion by backbench Tory MPs this afternoon on plans to opt back into a series of EU justice and home affairs measures, notably the European arrest warrant .
(6) The results indicate that CRALBP X 11-cis-retinol is sufficiently stereoselective in its binding properties to warrant consideration as a component of the mechanism for the generation of 11-cis-retinaldehyde in the dark.
(7) Terminal forces directed posteriorly and to the right and with a delay no longer than 0,03 inches do not warrant the diagnosis of left anterior hemiblock with a right bundle branch block associated.
(8) The impact of this activation on the remission rate and duration, as well as survival in patients with NHL, warrants further investigation.
(9) Ligament tissue seems to be less well suited to the microsphere technique; however, further study is warranted.
(10) Further trials are warranted to compare this regimen to other active combinations and to use it as a component of a program of treatment using alternating regimens of chemotherapy.
(11) The encouraging pilot results warrant a controlled study of exposure for dysmorphophobic avoidance and anxiety.
(12) These cases suggest that the role of R. sanguineus in the transmission of the etiologic agent of canine ehrlichiosis and other pathogenic organisms to humans may be underestimated and warrants investigation.
(13) The arrest warrant, which came into effect in 2004, was not perfect, but it was immediately useful, leading to the swift extradition of one of London’s would-be bombers in July 2005, Hussain Osman, from Italy, where he had fled.
(14) The use of tribavirin warrants further study, possibly combined with new therapeutic methods.
(15) We conclude that CMV is not a pathogen in the lungs of patients with HIV infection, and we suggest that its presence at this site does not warrant specific therapy in these patients.
(16) On the basis of this experience, further investigation of the intrapericardial administration of cisplatin as treatment to control malignant pericardial effusions appears warranted.
(17) The authors suggest that while differences in root length may be useful in determining treatment options, thinking of these variables as separate types of dentin dysplasia is not warranted at this time.
(18) A spokesman for the public relations firm Bell Pottinger, which represents Rajapaksa, denied that he had cancelled his trip to the UK last month becuse of fears that he might face an arrest warrant.
(19) The best documented and most clearly effective use of duplex sonography is for detecting severe obstructive lesions in the carotid artery that might warrant endarterectomy in patients with cerebral hemispheric symptoms.
(20) He compared the situation to insider trading or corruption, in which there may not be direct proof of a criminal quid pro quo taking place, but where there is a pattern of behaviour that warrants attention.