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letterbox
noun 4verb 2adj 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
all, good, painted, red
VERB + LETTERBOX
pushed
LETTERBOX + NOUN
front
PREP.
in, in, through
Definitions
noun
1
A box into which mail is put.
2
A box into which mail is put.
A wad of junk mail was pushed through the letterbox in the front door and dropped onto the mat.
3
A hidden container that holds a logbook and rubber stamp, found by following clues as a form of recreation.
4
A rectangular hole or slot.
His strength was running out fast: one more good letterbox was all that he could conceive himself able to make. He made it, hacking away with slow, painful strokes, his axe-handle slippery with his sweat.
adj
1
Transferred to home video formats while preserving the original aspect ratio, having black bars above and below the picture area.
verb
1
To transfer a widescreen motion picture to home video formats while preserving the original aspect ratio, with the placing of black bars above and below the picture area.
2
To hunt for letterboxes (containers with logbook and rubber stamp) by following clues.
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A wad of junk mail was pushed through the letterbox in the front door and dropped onto the mat.
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His strength was running out fast: one more good letterbox was all that he could conceive himself able to make. He made it, hacking away with slow, painful strokes, his axe-handle slippery with his sw
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I found your letter in the letterbox.
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The next morning he found a handwritten letter in the letterbox.
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My father painted the letterbox red.
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That was in our letterbox.
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