What's the difference between messenger and postman?

Messenger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who bears a message; the bearer of a verbal or written communication, notice, or invitation, from one person to another, or to a public body; specifically, an office servant who bears messages.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, foreshows, or foretells.
  • (n.) A hawser passed round the capstan, and having its two ends lashed together to form an endless rope or chain; -- formerly used for heaving in the cable.
  • (n.) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge og the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results demonstrate that increased availability of galactose, a high-affinity substrate for the enzyme, leads to increased aldose reductase messenger RNA, which suggests a role for aldose reductase in sugar metabolism in the lens.
  • (2) Mitogen-stimulated cells always contain substantially higher levels of LDL receptor messenger RNA than corresponding resting cells.
  • (3) In AtT-20 cells somatostatin inhibits the secretion of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) through the activation of GTP binding proteins (G proteins) linked to second messengers such as calcium and cyclic AMP (cAMP).
  • (4) The longest of the cDNA clones (1507 nucleotides) apparently originated from an unprocessed messenger RNA, since the nucleotide sequence encoding BNP-26 was interrupted by an intron of 554 nucleotides.
  • (5) This suggests that two independent second messenger systems may affect the same potassium conductance.
  • (6) Epinephrine potentiates muscle twitches via the second messenger, cAMP, secondary to hormone binding to membrane-bound beta-receptors.
  • (7) The 5'-terminal methylated cap (m7G(5')ppp(5')Gm) in reovirus messenger RNA comprises part of the ribosomes binding site, since attachment of 40 S wheat germ ribosomal subunits to reovirus small (s), medium (m), and large (l) RNA classes conferred almost complete protection of the cap against RNase digestion.
  • (8) Hydrolysis of PIP2 also produces DG, which has a messenger role in activating a specific protein kinase, the C kinase.
  • (9) In order to determine which second-messenger pathways mediate NE induction of TIS gene expression, the influences of the beta(B) antagonist propranolol (PR), the alpha I(AI) antagonist prazosin (PZ), and the alpha 2(A2) antagonist yohimbine (YB) were examined.
  • (10) The temporal changes in subunit messenger RNA levels in the cerebellum raise the possibility that synaptogenesis may play a role in receptor gene regulation in this brain region.
  • (11) The other homologous elements are located within the messenger RNA leader and may be associated with selection of messenger RNA start points.
  • (12) Stimulation of membrane phospholipid hydrolysis by receptor tyrosine kinases is one such pathway for generating intracellular second messengers that may be important for mitogenesis.
  • (13) In this study, we examined intracellular Ca2+ movement as one of the second messengers for human hepatocyte growth factor in primary-cultured hepatocytes.
  • (14) In the presence of 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine, stimulation induced an accumulation of cAMP, making possible the NMR detection of the second messenger in living cells grown on microcarrier beads and perfused in the NMR tube.
  • (15) The cell membrane, in addition to other functions, plays an important role in regulating cell metabolism governed by messenger proteins (or other substances) acting from the outside.
  • (16) Since several cell types, including astroglial, microglial, and vascular cells, can generate IL-1 upon appropriate stimulation, we examined whether IL-1 is formed in the CNS and may therefore serve as a messenger for systemic noxae.
  • (17) Facebook is also going to make payments a key part of Facebook Messenger sooner rather than later.
  • (18) We found parallel changes in the excretion of ANP's second messenger cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) in a dose-response-related manner to natriuresis respectively diuresis.
  • (19) We have examined a number of human adult tumors for IGF messenger RNA (mRNA) expression and found IGF-II mRNA levels were consistently elevated in two types, colon carcinoma and liposarcoma.
  • (20) The five proteins programmed in a cell-free system by a mouse kappa light chain messenger RNA were labeled with [3H]leucine and subjected to amino acid sequence analyses.

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.