(a.) Protected by an external coat, or covering, of scales or plates.
(a.) Spotted; speckled.
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.
Nailed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Nail
Example Sentences:
(1) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
(2) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
(3) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
(4) In the end, the emails from citizen scientists nailed the timing: “looks like it started maybe December 2015”; the severity: “I’ve seen dieback before, but not like this”; and the cause: “guessing it may be the consequence of the four-year drought”.
(5) Impairments of hearing, of mobility, of cutting toe-nails and of general physical activity were the conditions which were most frequently named.
(6) All nine injuries had antibiotic prophylaxis before and after nail removal.
(7) But I'm starting with the job that I can do something about right now – scrabbling around on the floor, picking up three-inch nails and cigarette butts so that the new four-year-olds will have somewhere safe to play at break.
(8) A case is reported of a male infant with congenital palmoplantar keratoderma and nail dystrophy who developed progressive perioral and perineal keratoderma.
(9) Although the nail changes and systemic complications are probably due to different causes in drug-induced YNS, a careful search for systemic complications are necessary in patients who develop nail changes.
(10) Similar cultures from ten additional patients who underwent nail surgery were also performed.
(11) It constitutes an alternative to Ender nailing, screw-plate, and nail-plate.
(12) Fragments of nail keratin removed with tweezers from patients suffering from alopecia areata were examined using light microscopy and electron microscopy.
(13) It's an anxious time for those 180,000 teenagers chasing the last university places in clearing ; nails are bitten to the quick, eyes glazed from internet searching.
(14) The phenol and alcohol procedure still remains as one of the most effective and gratifying means of treatment for symptomatic ingrown nails.
(15) High level of Ge content was detected from the hair and nail by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry.
(16) Yellow nail syndrome is characterized by a yellow discolouration of the nails associated with idiopathic lymphoedema and pleuropulmonary manifestations.
(17) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(18) Median strain values of reamed only and polyacetal-nailed femora ranged from 67 to 90 percent of the intact side.
(19) Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority and minority leaders, held two lengthy meetings on Monday in an attempt to nail down terms of a possible compromise.
(20) One hundred patients were treated with the Rydell four-flanged nail and 100 with the Gouffon pins.