What's the difference between mailman and postman?

Mailman


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That’s the way the mailman and Mrs Kasich lived,” he said of his parents, adding that their death sent him “into a black hole with just a little pin prick of light”.
  • (2) Dr Panda’s Postman (£1.79) Another appearance for that moonlighting doctor, this time in Dr Panda’s Postman (or Mailman, as it’s known in the US).
  • (3) Whether you’re the CEO of a Fortune 500 company or you’re a mailman or you’re homeless, this affects you.
  • (4) MailMinder is completely compatible with the existing unmodified DHCP electronic mail program, Mailman.
  • (5) Such talk baffles many white people, even Ron Goff, 65, a retired mailman who lives just five minutes away amid black neighbours he considers friends.
  • (6) That means Republicans are “between a rock and a hard place”, according to Professor Michael Sparer , chair of health policy at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
  • (7) Dr Jeffrey L Shaman, associate professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Heath, was part of the project that forecast the outbreak would be contained in 12 to 18 months.
  • (8) "Mayor Bloomberg has transformed in a very visionary way the approaches that a city should take to secure the health of its population," said Linda Fried, dean of Columbia University's Mailman school of public health.
  • (9) Certain misrepresentations of our theory of self-stimulatory behavior by Lewis, Baumeister, and Mailman (1987) are corrected and several questions raised by the commentators are answered.
  • (10) During the primaries, John Kasich emphasized that his father was a mailman.

Postman


Definition:

  • (n.) A post or courier; a letter carrier.
  • (n.) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions; -- so called from the place where he sits. The other of the two is called the tubman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cultural critic Neil Postman once observed that you can't use smoke signals for philosophical discussions: the communication channel simply doesn't have the necessary bandwidth.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The shiny new Postman Pat and his helicopter.
  • (3) Together with his late wife Janet, he wrote 37 titles including perennial favourites The Jolly Postman and Burglar Bill, and by himself he is the author of many more, including The Pencil, and Woof!
  • (4) "The Postman Always Rings Twice was my starting point," explained Packham.
  • (5) They were widely derided for being the "Postman Pats" of international terrorism, but the Welsh nationalists' prolific firebombing campaign of holiday cottages begun at the end of the 1970s caused havoc in the rural idyll of the Lleyn peninsula.
  • (6) The man who has been in charge of the FTSE 100 company since 2005 said his business hero was Margaret Thatcher and that his first job was as a Christmas postman in Essex at the age of 16.
  • (7) But not in a world where only the postman rings twice.
  • (8) The Detroit native and longtime postman looks down at the freshly cut grass of old Tiger Stadium for a moment, adding, “If [owners] don’t get their way, they threaten to leave.
  • (9) Arthur Stone, a 53-year-old postman from Burton upon Trent, is believed to be the first person in Britain to have been rescued by a housing association from having his home repossessed.
  • (10) Dr Panda’s Postman (£1.79) Another appearance for that moonlighting doctor, this time in Dr Panda’s Postman (or Mailman, as it’s known in the US).
  • (11) The few passers-by - I have seen no one except the postman for the past two days - stop to tell me that I live in "un petit coin de paradis" - a little bit of heaven.
  • (12) The assistant gives it to a messenger, who gives it to the postman.
  • (13) He says it was only a few years ago, when combining postman duties with playing for St Ives Town, that he expected his career to veer in a different direction.
  • (14) Family members, friends, colleagues, strangers, the postman – they all want to know when I will stop taking the pill and are unable to accept my answer.
  • (15) By the time the local postman rides, stunned, into frame on his bike, Robbie Ryan already has the shot.
  • (16) Three members of a farming family and their local postman contracted orf.
  • (17) Seventy years after the event, one of them would still cry at the memory of the postman bringing the death notice in a brown War Office envelope to her home in Edinburgh.
  • (18) But the day after Norris's funeral the Detroit Free Press carried just one story from Lansing - about a postman who has been on the same beat for 50 years.
  • (19) Her hair is left uncovered, except when the postman rings and she goes down to collect a parcel.
  • (20) Ron Goff, 67, a retired postman and perhaps the only other white resident of Vickie Place, had little sympathy for black motorists who cried racism when stopped and fined.

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