We make two kinds
of decompositions of functions meromorphic in the whole plane into two
classes: One is the class of meromorphic functions of the first kind in the
sense of Yosida (resp. of the first kind in the sense of Gavrilov) and the
other is the class of meromorphic functions of the second kind in the sense
of Yosida (resp. of the second kind in the sense of Gavrilov). Using these
decompositions, we prove a result about the growth of the characteristic
functions and some results about value distribution, of meromorphic functions of
the first kind in the sense of Yosida (resp. of the first kind in the sense of
Gavrilov).
