mail

IPA: mˈeɪɫ

(now regional) A bag or wallet.
A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
The material conveyed by the postal service.
(dated) A stagecoach, train or ship that delivers such post.
The postal service or system in general.
(chiefly US, uncountable) The letters, parcels, etc. delivered to a particular address or person.
(uncountable) Electronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages.
(countable) An email message.
A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
(uncountable) Armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together.
(nautical) 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.
(obsolete, rare) A spot on a bird's feather; by extension, a spotted feather.
(historical) An old French coin worth half a denier.
(chiefly Scotland) A monetary payment or tribute.
(chiefly Scotland) Rent.
(chiefly Scotland) Tax.

Examples of "mail" in Sentences

Keeping things in the mail is the only way to sell things.
And what I get from my mail is a kind of soft echo of this.
So in fact, the mail is an excellent way to conduct the census.
Here, media mail is a less expensive way to send books and other media, like DVDs or CDs, etc.
They also uncovered instances where certain regional offices offered what they call mail amnesty.
As with the trash, I dare not allow this mail to accumulate; you might (almost) say, the mail is the trash.
This winery could be located anywhere as it has little to do with a wine region so much as the mail is able to deliver supplies.
}} This shutdown method will check if there are events not yet mailed and if there are, it will mail them to the address specified in the Zend_Mail object which has to be within the _mail property.
The little Goodmail flag on messages in user inboxes tells mail recipients that the mail is actually from who it purports to be from, and not a phish, which is particularly important for mail from financial institutions and the like. —