IPA: mˈeɪɫ
noun
- (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.
verb
- (ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.
- (ditransitive) To send by electronic mail.
- (transitive) To contact (a person) by electronic mail.
- (transitive) To arm with mail.
- (transitive) To pinion.
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Examples of "mail" in Sentences
- The check is in the mail.
- The actors answered the mail.
- Here's the content of the mail.
- What is the zipcode for the mailing address
- That would include the mailing address of the publisher.
- It appears that you inserted an e mail address correctly.
- 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.
- Sometimes, the body includes the e mail address of the sender.
- So in fact, the mail is an excellent way to conduct the census.
- The letters crossed in the mail and led to an enduring and fruitful friendship.
- 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.
- The insurer mailed policyholders' letters that developed a new alert system for sensitive information.
- As with the trash, I dare not allow this mail to accumulate; you might (almost) say, the mail is the trash.
- Then we tagged all of the companies that have links to attorneys and mailing addresses frequently used by Intellectual Ventures.
- 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. —