What's the difference between postie and postil?

Postie


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The contributing elements to boundaries of the round window niche are superiorly the tegmen fossula fenestra rotunda (roof support), inferiorly the fustis (depth) and area concamerata, anteriorly the sustentaculum (support) and postis anterior (anterior pillar), and posteriorly the postis posterior (posterior pillar) and the subiculum (underlying supporting structure).
  • (2) This morning's meeting was with Gareth, a Postie nicknamed after Corporal Pike from Dad's Army."
  • (3) She’d be really proud.” He added: “It wasn’t that long ago I was a postie and playing for St Ives.
  • (4) In a shrinking letters market having two posties following each other up the same garden path is inefficient.
  • (5) Are we really going to have "multiple posties" on UK streets?
  • (6) So don’t complain about the posties, train drivers, cabin crews and baggage handlers – they’re only doing what we all should in 2017.

Postil


Definition:

  • (n.) Originally, an explanatory note in the margin of the Bible, so called because written after the text; hence, a marginal note; a comment.
  • (n.) A short homily or commentary on a passage of Scripture; as, the first postils were composed by order of Charlemagne.
  • (v. t.) To write marginal or explanatory notes on; to gloss.
  • (v. i.) To write postils, or marginal notes; to comment; to postillate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The postileal digestibility of the crude carbohydrates (CC) of 14 rations calculated from the difference between total digestibility (faecal analysis) and precaecal digestibility (analysis of the ileal chyme of IRA pigs) showed that between 40 and 100 g (70 g on average) out of the 780 g CC per kg DM consumed disappear in the large intestine.
  • (2) There is not yet an answer to the question in how far comparative studies of INT and IRA animals make verified statements with regard to the differences in the energetic utilization of the precaecally and postileally digested nutrients possible.
  • (3) A regressively calculated difference of 17%-units was regressively calculated between the utilization of metabolizable energy of either precaecal or postileal origin.
  • (4) Mature ponies fitted with permanent ileal cannulas were used in a 3 X 3 Latin square experiment to quantify prececal, postileal and total tract digestion of hay protein.
  • (5) Apparent postileal N digestibility was 52.5% for CB, 65.7% for LA and 66.9% for HA.
  • (6) For partioning the digestible energy into a prececal and postileal component the diet was supplemented with 0.3% Cr2O3, and samples of digesta taken by means of a cecum cannula were analyzed for this marker.
  • (7) This corresponds completely to the difference in the utilization of metabolizable energy between exclusively precaecal and postileal digestion.

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