mail

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/meɪl/

noun 14verb 5

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

first-class, second-class | surface | express | registered

internal

The company uses internal mail to distribute paychecks to employees each month.

international

direct

The company sent direct mail to thousands of customers about their new insurance plans.

incoming, outgoing | unopened, unread | electronic, video, voice

junk

My email inbox is full of junk mail from online shopping websites.

hate

She deleted the hate mail without reading it because she knew it would only upset her.

fan

QUANT

item, sackful

VERB + MAIL

send | get, receive | deliver

forward, redirect

When I moved to a new apartment, I asked the postal service to forward my mail.

collect

I need to collect the mail from the mailbox before the package gets wet.

sort

The postal workers sort the mail every morning before delivering it to homes.

check

I always check my mail first thing when I get home from work.

pick up | open | read | answer, deal with

MAIL + VERB

come, go

The mail goes out every morning at 9 o'clock from the post office downtown.

MAIL + NOUN

order

I decided to buy a winter coat through mail order since the local stores didn't have my size.

message | item | program | system

PREP

by ~

I'll send the package by mail since it's not urgent and costs less than courier service.

in the ~

Your new passport should arrive soon; it's in the mail.

(verb.)

ADV

direct

PREP

We mailed the wedding invitations to all our relatives last month.

Definitions

noun

A bag or wallet.

What, loo, man, see here of dyce a bale; / A brydelynge caste for that is in thy male!

Open the Males, yet guard the treaſure ſure. Lay out our golden wedges to the view, That their reflexions may amaze the Perſeans.

A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.

The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.

Meronym: mailpiece

Don't forget to pick up the mail on your way.

The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.

It should be in your mail today, unless the post office lost it!

A stagecoach, train or ship that delivers such post.

All trains stop at all stations, with the exception of a few "local" stations near Mombasa and an odd flag stop or two usually missed by the mails.

On the morning after the one-day strike, October 4, one of the Type 4s on crew-training, No. D169, was appropriated to head the 3 a.m. mail to Hull, as no steam locomotive had been lit up and the usual Hull Type 3 was not available; [...].

verb

To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.

To send by electronic mail.

Please mail me the spreadsheet by the end of the day.

There has been a crackdown on non-ARPA use of a local ARPA gateway, so I am reluctant to attempt to mail the file to ARPA sites.

To contact (a person) by electronic mail.

I need to mail my tutor about the deadline.

I was horrified but my data was OK. Then, it saw it open my e-mail package and start to mail my friends. I turned the power off.

noun

Armour consisting of metal rings linked together.

The knight is laid in his mail, only the hands and face being bare.

"That's funny looking mail, Sire," said Eustace. "Aye, lad," said Tirian. "No Narnian dwarf smithied that. […]

Armour consisting of small plates linked together.

A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.

Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.

We […] strip the lobster of his scarlet mail.

There beryl, pearl, and opal pale, / And metal wrought like fishes' mail, / Buckler and corslet, axe and sword, / And shining spears were laid in hoard.

A spot on a bird's feather; by extension, a spotted feather.

[T]he moorish-fly: made with the body of duskish wool; and the wings made of the blackish mail of the drake.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post off

post

noun — any particular collection of letters or packages that is del

post

verb — cause to be directed or transmitted to another place

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

check is in the mail

A common excuse used by debtors to put off creditors.

Your check is in the mail. I gave it to my son to mail yesterday. I hope he remembered.

mail it in

To deliver a performance without commitment or effort, with lackluster results.

"I do think the judges mailed it in during Season 6, relative to previous years," Welton says. "Simon needs to be nastier. […]"

carry the mail

To work diligently; to serve as the principal performer of a demanding task or set of tasks.

"My objective was to carry the mail for the President, working with the Congress, forging that new bill."

Example Bank

What, loo, man, see here of dyce a bale; / A brydelynge caste for that is in thy male!

Wiktionary

Open the Males, yet guard the treaſure ſure. Lay out our golden wedges to the view, That their reflexions may amaze the Perſeans.

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Meronym: mailpiece

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Please mail me the spreadsheet by the end of the day.

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There has been a crackdown on non-ARPA use of a local ARPA gateway, so I am reluctant to attempt to mail the file to ARPA sites.

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Since .mp3's are so big (well for me with a 33.6kp/s connection they are anyway) maybe you should offer on your site to mail the file to people who want it, and have them request it, thus saving your

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, mail is marked as dated, obsolete, US, rare, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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