What's the difference between postage and token?

Postage


Definition:

  • (n.) The price established by law to be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The stamps, which were similar in paper and size to Japanese 10-yen postage stamps, were wrapped around the penis before sleep and the stamp ring was checked for breakage the next morning.
  • (2) A brief orientation to postage stamps and philately is given, and a small collection of rheumatologically related stamps is illustrated.
  • (3) There was no financial incentive to return this survey except that return postage was paid by the author.
  • (4) There was no financial incentive for return of the survey other than return postage paid for by the author.
  • (5) In a survey of attitudes and referral practices toward screening mammography, one-fifth (886) of the 4200 physicians queried returned a postage-paid questionnaire.
  • (6) As the Powell quote above suggests, as of the early 1970s, they led the way into a world where the most ambitious groups dispensed with band-portraits, and even typography: to this day, even if album "sleeves" are now often boiled down to the size of a postage stamp, musicians usually serve notice of their ambition by leaving such fripperies off their artwork.
  • (7) Small booksellers argue they cannot compete with Amazon because it provides free postage and free fast delivery deals on top of 5% discount.
  • (8) A self-administered, postage prepaid questionnaire was sent to 1000 Indiana consumers randomly selected from telephone directories.
  • (9) It contained items of value, including sales receipts needed to return goods, my driving licence, loyalty cards, library cards and postage stamps.
  • (10) The accompanying marketing blitzkrieg has given us postage stamps , Madame Tussauds exhibits , themed decor from Pottery Barn and fleets of new toys , including actual droids .
  • (11) Some retailers have a better online price than they do in-store, but charge postage.
  • (12) Heads Up, Tim Tron is available from The Children's Trust for just the cost of postage and packing.
  • (13) The fact that your proof of postage shows that the parcel weighed considerably more than an empty box, and that the buyer has refused to cooperate in the dispute resolution process, appears irrelevant to eBay.
  • (14) It comes with a 128-page recipe book and can be bought from Andrew James for £27.90 including postage .
  • (15) These companies bulk-buy postage slots then sell in dividual slots to consumers, passing on some of the discount.
  • (16) Other variables such as inclusion of postage and dietary restrictions were studied and cost efficiencies were estimated.
  • (17) Postage stamps sold in the capital, Sarajevo, are not valid in the RS; railway engines have to be swapped as a train from Ploce to Zagreb crosses the country, from Croatian, to Bosnian, to Serbian and back to Croatian again (and these countries want to join the EU?).
  • (18) Men who received the stamped envelope had a 5.9% greater response than those who received the franked envelope (p less than 0.001), but the type of postage did not influence response among women (p = 0.84); this interaction was statistically significant (p = 0.006).
  • (19) These eyes were randomly assigned to four groups: "can opener," linear capsulotomy, capsulopuncture ("postage stamp"), and continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis (CCC).
  • (20) We had a tiny postage stamp-sized garden in Ealing.

Token


Definition:

  • (n.) Something intended or supposed to represent or indicate another thing or an event; a sign; a symbol; as, the rainbow is a token of God's covenant established with Noah.
  • (n.) A memorial of friendship; something by which the friendship of another person is to be kept in mind; a memento; a souvenir.
  • (n.) Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith, etc.
  • (n.) A piece of metal intended for currency, and issued by a private party, usually bearing the name of the issuer, and redeemable in lawful money. Also, a coin issued by government, esp. when its use as lawful money is limited and its intrinsic value is much below its nominal value.
  • (n.) A livid spot upon the body, indicating, or supposed to indicate, the approach of death.
  • (n.) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
  • (n.) A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.
  • (n.) A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sends one of these with each corf or tub he has hewn.
  • (n.) To betoken.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You’d know that if you listened to them and saw their presence as more than tokenism.
  • (2) These 2 experiences are often split in bottlefed and token breastfed infants.
  • (3) It’s not about a token nod to curvy girls …”, Cosmo ‘s editor, Bronwyn McCahon, explains in her campaign launch letter : “Showcasing body diversity at both ends of the spectrum has become part of Cosmo’s DNA.
  • (4) By the same token we stopped all association with businesses that make cluster bombs.
  • (5) By the same token, the mast cell is responsible for interactions with inhaled, ingested, and injected antigens that comprise IgE-mediated allergic reactions.
  • (6) A 36-item version of the token test is described together with its administration and scoring instructions.
  • (7) Consequently, steady-state trace inert gas exchange cannot in practice be used to differentiate series from parallel models, but by the same token, if series gas exchange occurs, equivalent parallel analysis is possible.
  • (8) The information included a detailed case description, an audiotape of M's speech obtained at 4, 9, 13, and 17 days post-stroke, and test results from the Western Aphasia Battery, the Token Test, and a battery for apraxia of speech.
  • (9) This schema and framework: (1) acknowledge that the term "breastfeeding" alone is insufficient to describe the numerous types of breastfeeding behavior, (2) distinguish full from partial breastfeeding, (3) subdivide full breastfeeding into categories of exclusive and almost exclusive breastfeeding, (4) differentiate among levels of partial breastfeeding, and (5) recognize that there can be token breastfeeding with little to no nutritional impact.
  • (10) In the second experiment, preadolescent learning-disabled students who were required to read and spell correctly a greater number of words per reward token later spent more time and completed more work for reward tokens in mathematics, and handwriting.
  • (11) A pretest-posttest design containing natural tokens was used to assess the effects of training.
  • (12) Under this, 1% commission was to be paid if the $40m radar deal went through, to a Tanzania-registered firm, Merlin International Ltd. Mr Vithlani was the majority shareholder in Merlin, Mr Somaiya said, while he had a small token interest himself.
  • (13) Total speech tokens increased for 7 of the 8 subjects and diversity of speech sounds increased for 6 subjects.
  • (14) The effects of reward and cost token procedures on the social and academic behavior of two groups of elementary special-education students were assessed using a reversal design.
  • (15) In condition A, the opportunity to self-stimulate was contingent on the payment of tokens (two tokens for 2 minutes of self-stimulation).
  • (16) Wherever the aphasics' performance was worse than that of the controls, the deviancy-scores correlated significantly with the Token Test.
  • (17) a) The token economy may be viewed as a palliative measure to prevent the incredibly regressive effects of institutionalization.
  • (18) Students (N = 32) in two of the schools remained in traditional programs, serving as controls, whereas students (N = 14) in the third school participated in a token reinforcement program.
  • (19) So, by that token, the public would have loathed PMQs and loved the civilised debate on Stafford hospital that followed.
  • (20) d) What the patient learns in a token economic system may not be what the token economy's program director probably intends.