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noun meɪlmeɪl mass noun1Letters and parcels sent by post. I did not receive any mail Example sentencesExamples - We expect the majority of our retail outlets will be open as usual and we will be giving priority to delivering express post and mail to post office boxes.
- "I opened my junk mail then came to the gas bill, " she said.
- Further to this, should any person need to send any mail or small parcels quickly then there are alternative services which guarantee next day delivery for a reasonable cost.
- Many surveys have shown that most people actually like to receive direct mail.
- On another day he also picked up some of our mail from the post office.
- They left no forwarding address with me and though the Post Office redirected their mail for a bit, this has now stopped.
- Buckingham Palace revealed that the Queen now sends second class mail when correspondence is not urgent.
- It seems the company's decision to scrap the second post and deliver all mail in one round has crippled deliveries.
- The new services, however, will not include travelling post offices to sort mail and are a fraction of the 60 nightly trains that ran two years ago.
- It is best to deposit outgoing mail at the post office rather than your mailbox.
- It was the end of an era when Seamus Rogers despatched the last mail from the Post Office in Brize.
- The Royal Mail is currently in negotiations with other firms such as TPG and Deutsche Post to deliver their mail.
- As there was a fear that letters may be intercepted, all mail was sent to her maid who did not live in the palace, before they were hand delivered to the Queen.
- Canada Post still delivers unsolicited mail, but only those with the name and address of the occupant on them.
- In front of our house is a seldom-used mailbox, because we receive our mail at a post office box in town.
- If you're traveling during the holidays, arrange for someone to pick up your mail or have your mail held at the post office.
- He could not compel any customer to accept a roadside letter box but anyone who didn't agree to the new arrangement would have to collect their mail from their nearest post office.
- A few years later, mail vans were used to collect mail from post boxes and delivered to the stations.
- Maff advises drivers to provide an alternative delivery point, such as a post box, at the farm boundary or make alternative arrangements to collect mail from the post office.
- 1.1 The postal system.
Example sentencesExamples - On completion, the surveys were immediately placed in sealed envelopes before being returned by mail to the first author.
- Parents recorded redness, swelling and tenderness for three days following injection and returned the results by mail.
- Beginning in 1838, the federal government transferred the mails from stagecoaches to railroads.
- Test grades and certificates for accreditation were returned to us by mail.
- Workers will vote by mail ballot some time next month.
- Buy dormant tubers in winter, either by mail from a specialty nursery or from a nursery or garden center.
- A mail train chugged along on a parallel track to her left but soon disappeared into a tunnel.
- The experts received a draft of the survey questionnaire to critique and suggested changes either by mail or telephone.
- The $100 fee would have to be paid in American dollars by mail with a check or money order, or with a credit card online.
- If you can't pay a visit but want to try some artisan cheeses, the cheeseries will let you order products either by mail or on-line.
- On Friday, the packages were put in the mail for Monday delivery.
- Control participants contacted by mail indicated their willingness to participate by returning an enclosed screening questionnaire.
- The print material is sent via first-class mail the same day the video is sent via third-class mail.
- We sent all of the questionnaires by mail with a postage-paid return envelope.
- A hand delivered message was more likely to be read, or at least placed at the top of the pile, than a similar letter sent by mail.
- Of these hotels, the best is the tiny Splendido Mare, which started life as a hostel in the early 1900s to look after travellers arriving by mail coach in urgent need of food and a bed for the night.
- ‘People often go out of their way to stop by and chat, instead of dealing with us by mail or telephone,’ says Spahr.
- A cooperative's entire membership can function as a virtual nominating committee by soliciting nominations by mail, or via a newsletter.
- The patients were surveyed by mail or by follow-up telephone calls.
- The Admiralty had arranged for the carriage of mails by Churchward, but the continuation of the agreement depended on the availability of a sum of £18,000.
- 1.2in singular A single delivery or collection of mail.
I had a notice in by this morning's mail Example sentencesExamples - Looking at the mess on the desk, he noticed today's mail.
- He sat at the kitchen table and poked at yesterday's mail with one finger.
- Today the mail brought a puffy package from the eastern Seaboard; inside were two books by Patch Adams.
- Today started with the mail: another rejection for my book proposal.
- Vanities arrive by the cartful for her every morning with the mail.
- Someone ruffles through today's mail; someone else drops a CD player.
- Yesterday's mail alone brought 2 manuscripts for endorsement - and I plan to endorse both.
- Five days later, when Sanura walked down the path to the road and the mailbox, she smiled at the paper that had been delivered with the mail.
- Every morning, I nervously check the mail, every morning, my heart misses a beat.
- The butler showed up carrying yesterday's mail and the newspaper of today.
Synonyms post, letters, packages, parcels, correspondence, communications, airmail postal system, postal service, post office registered mail, special delivery, recorded delivery delivery, collection, mail drop, mailshot, mailing, first class, second class, third class, electronic mail, email, voicemail, Pony Express informal snail mail North American & West Indian the mails Indian dak, tappal - 1.3 Email.
Example sentencesExamples - The virus, thought to have originated in the US, gets into email address books and sends multiple junk mails to each new address it finds while also infiltrating that new address to use any other addresses it opens up.
- He thought as long as he signed on to the internet he would have mail waiting for him.
- I use a laptop with Linux, and I don't want people reading my mail if the laptop falls into the wrong hands.
- This piece of software is like a border security guard, sitting between your email software and your incoming mail.
- Once you combine encrypted mail with free Web storage space, you have the same functionality that a virtual safe-deposit box offers, for free.
- 1.4dated count noun A vehicle, such as a train, carrying mail.
- 1.5archaic count noun A bag of letters to be sent by post.
- 1.6in names Used in titles of newspapers.
Example sentencesExamples - We read in Press Gazette that Alan Bennett is taking up the post of deputy editor of the Western Mail.
- I've just been down to Shotley village stores for a copy of the Mail on Sunday.
- The Sunday Mail won the best sports coverage, while best features was Sunday Times Scotland.
- When I was growing up, the papers I had most access to were The Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday.
- The debt discussion isn't confined to bastions of Middle England such as the Mail and Express.
- The Mail chased up the story, but for whatever reason decided not to run it.
- What drives The Mail on Sunday to follow Oxford gossip with such enthusiasm?
- I should know better than to actually read the Western Mail, rather than just buying it for jobs.
- The Mail's position is that, given that he is bringing a civil action, his identity is public.
- Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips has begun a blog-style diary at her website.
verb meɪlmeɪl [with object]1Send (a letter or parcel) by post. three editions were mailed to our members Example sentencesExamples - School administrators mailed letters to all parents of seventh graders describing the project.
- They drove to the post office to mail the letter in case someone found it before it could be posted.
- Opportunity is a nice place to stop and stretch - a great name for a town and a great place to mail a letter or postcard.
- Yeah, the postmark definitely can trace to the post office where they mailed the letter.
- The completed ballot paper is then mailed back in a numbered envelope placed in another envelope.
- The next day, he had two errands to run - one was to the post office to mail Laurie's letter.
- Donors were supplied with polling information; we mailed certified letters and express mail packages as well as highly personal appeals from Jim and his family.
- I don't know why people sell perfectly good stamps below face value when you can always use them to mail letters.
- Josh is running at top speed to get to the post office in order to mail a letter for Kathy.
- One can grab a bite at one of the many food outlets, shop for memories at souvenir stalls and mail a letter from the tiny post office.
- The cost of mailing a letter will not change until 2006.
- The children continued to share stories about times when they mailed a letter with their parents, or when they actually went to the post office.
- After I had mailed the letter Shawn and I started to head back home.
- She walked to the post office, where she bought a money order, and mailed the letter.
- They make money not on stamps, but on the newspapers and candy bars that customers buy when they come in to mail a letter.
- Some of them will even write indignant ‘I'll never buy your product again’ letters and then, on their way home from mailing the letter, stop off and pick up the product.
- As a first point of contact, the project director mailed a letter briefly describing the project to potential participants.
- Ask a 12-year-old when she last mailed a letter to Aunt Minnie and you're likely to get a blank stare.
- Postal patrons also must complete customs forms and declarations pertaining to the contents of parcels being mailed.
- The stamps can then be used as postage from any Netherland Antilles port or onboard ship to mail a letter anywhere in the world.
Synonyms send, post, send by mail/post, dispatch, direct, forward, remit, transmit, email, airmail - 1.1 Send (someone) email.
his site is OK and I can even mail him direct Example sentencesExamples - Theorton checked his e-mail later to find that Henry had mailed him back.
- Unless you feel it is from a legitimate company that has made a genuine mistake in mailing you, do not respond to spam email messages.
- This is not really a question, but I can't seem to find an email address anywhere on this page to mail you with.
- So for example, if a friend (we'll call her Sally) mails you a jpeg as an email attachment, it will store this relationship.
- When an anti-virus program from a remote system mails you out of the blue, tells you that it blocked a virus you sent, tells you that you are likely infected with a virus and advertises itself, the remote site is sending you spam.
Origin Middle English (in the sense 'travelling bag'): from Old French male 'wallet', of West Germanic origin. The notion ‘by post’ dates from the mid 17th century. Modern English has two different words spelled mail. The mail that refers to the postal system came immediately from French, but is related to Dutch maal meaning ‘wallet, bag’. This is also the oldest sense in English, and mails in the USA and Scotland is still a term for baggage. The use of a postal service arose in the mid 17th century from the bag in which letters were carried. From there it developed to the contents of the bag. ‘An item delivered’ is the origin of newspaper titles such as the Daily Mail. At the same time mail also came to apply to a person or vehicle delivering letters and packages, and then to the postal system itself. British usage favours post for both the system and the material delivered, while mail is dominant in North America and Australia. For electronic messages, though, mail and email are universal—the ordinary post is snail mail. In coat of mail the word came from Latin macula ‘stain, blemish, mesh of a net’, seen also in immaculate. Originally it referred to the individual metal rings or plates that make up the armour, so a knight would have worn a coat of mails. See also blackmail
Rhymes ail, ale, assail, avail, bail, bale, bewail, brail, Braille, chain mail, countervail, curtail, dale, downscale, drail, dwale, entail, exhale, fail, faille, flail, frail, Gael, Gail, gale, Grail, grisaille, hail, hale, impale, jail, kale, male, webmail, nonpareil, outsail, pail, pale, quail, rail, sail, sale, sangrail, scale, shale, snail, stale, swale, tail, tale, they'll, trail, upscale, vail, vale, veil, surveil, wail, wale, whale, Yale noun meɪlmeɪl mass nounhistorical 1Armour made of metal rings or plates joined together flexibly. as modifier he had a mail shirt Example sentencesExamples - They all wore the battle armour they brought with them; steel plate mail with high, circular collars and round shoulder pieces.
- At the head of the precision was a man clad entirely in gold plate mail with a crimson cape flung around his shoulders.
- The twenty-five or so remaining Crimson Knights donned their plate mail and readied their weapons.
- Each Corinthian soldier wore a simple coat of chain mail beneath a set of light plate mail, complete with a helm that was adorned with a small plume of pure white fur.
- Chain mail alternated with steel plates that had been bent around the knight seamlessly so as not to impede his movement.
Synonyms armour, coat of mail, chain mail, chain armour rare brigandine, hauberk, byrnie, habergeon, camail - 1.1 The protective shell or scales of certain animals.
Example sentencesExamples - They probably need at least helms, to protect them from mobs of carrion birds, and mail on their bellies to cover ground-to-air arrows.
- The man-beast tried to bit Wolfus, but his greenish dragon scale mail just wouldn't let its fang through.
verb meɪlmeɪl [with object]often as adjective mailedClothe or cover with mail. Example sentencesExamples - They wore a mailed shirt called the 'hauberk', constructed of interlinked iron rings, which afforded protection to the body, upper arms and thighs.
- The Tapestry shows Norman knights and English soldiers wearing identical mailed hauberks or byrnies.
Phrases The use of physical force to maintain control. the country's leadership has shown its continued reliance on the mailed fist Example sentencesExamples - The balance of the country's history - before and after independence - is overwhelmingly weighted in favour of the mailed fist rather than the velvet glove.
- Inside the velvet glove is always the mailed fist.
- Those original six are represented on the squadron's badge - the mailed fist apparently symbolises the first CO Lt Cdr R.F. Walker (apparent a ‘robust’ individual) and five clouds stand in for those five pilots.
- Soft talk or big stick, carrot and stick, accept the velvet glove or face the mailed fist.
- In 1992, the squadron's insignia was officially changed from the Green Pawn to the mailed fist and lighting bolt previously used by Attack Squadron 176.
Origin Middle English (also denoting the individual metal elements composing mail armour): from Old French maille, from Latin macula 'spot or mesh'. nounmālmeɪl 1Letters and packages conveyed by the postal system. Example sentencesExamples - They left no forwarding address with me and though the Post Office redirected their mail for a bit, this has now stopped.
- Further to this, should any person need to send any mail or small parcels quickly then there are alternative services which guarantee next day delivery for a reasonable cost.
- A few years later, mail vans were used to collect mail from post boxes and delivered to the stations.
- On another day he also picked up some of our mail from the post office.
- He could not compel any customer to accept a roadside letter box but anyone who didn't agree to the new arrangement would have to collect their mail from their nearest post office.
- The Royal Mail is currently in negotiations with other firms such as TPG and Deutsche Post to deliver their mail.
- In front of our house is a seldom-used mailbox, because we receive our mail at a post office box in town.
- As there was a fear that letters may be intercepted, all mail was sent to her maid who did not live in the palace, before they were hand delivered to the Queen.
- It seems the company's decision to scrap the second post and deliver all mail in one round has crippled deliveries.
- If you're traveling during the holidays, arrange for someone to pick up your mail or have your mail held at the post office.
- "I opened my junk mail then came to the gas bill, " she said.
- It was the end of an era when Seamus Rogers despatched the last mail from the Post Office in Brize.
- Maff advises drivers to provide an alternative delivery point, such as a post box, at the farm boundary or make alternative arrangements to collect mail from the post office.
- Many surveys have shown that most people actually like to receive direct mail.
- It is best to deposit outgoing mail at the post office rather than your mailbox.
- Buckingham Palace revealed that the Queen now sends second class mail when correspondence is not urgent.
- The new services, however, will not include travelling post offices to sort mail and are a fraction of the 60 nightly trains that ran two years ago.
- Canada Post still delivers unsolicited mail, but only those with the name and address of the occupant on them.
- We expect the majority of our retail outlets will be open as usual and we will be giving priority to delivering express post and mail to post office boxes.
- 1.1North American & West Indian also the mails The postal system.
Example sentencesExamples - A mail train chugged along on a parallel track to her left but soon disappeared into a tunnel.
- The print material is sent via first-class mail the same day the video is sent via third-class mail.
- Parents recorded redness, swelling and tenderness for three days following injection and returned the results by mail.
- Buy dormant tubers in winter, either by mail from a specialty nursery or from a nursery or garden center.
- The $100 fee would have to be paid in American dollars by mail with a check or money order, or with a credit card online.
- The experts received a draft of the survey questionnaire to critique and suggested changes either by mail or telephone.
- The patients were surveyed by mail or by follow-up telephone calls.
- If you can't pay a visit but want to try some artisan cheeses, the cheeseries will let you order products either by mail or on-line.
- On completion, the surveys were immediately placed in sealed envelopes before being returned by mail to the first author.
- Workers will vote by mail ballot some time next month.
- ‘People often go out of their way to stop by and chat, instead of dealing with us by mail or telephone,’ says Spahr.
- On Friday, the packages were put in the mail for Monday delivery.
- Test grades and certificates for accreditation were returned to us by mail.
- We sent all of the questionnaires by mail with a postage-paid return envelope.
- A cooperative's entire membership can function as a virtual nominating committee by soliciting nominations by mail, or via a newsletter.
- Beginning in 1838, the federal government transferred the mails from stagecoaches to railroads.
- Control participants contacted by mail indicated their willingness to participate by returning an enclosed screening questionnaire.
- The Admiralty had arranged for the carriage of mails by Churchward, but the continuation of the agreement depended on the availability of a sum of £18,000.
- Of these hotels, the best is the tiny Splendido Mare, which started life as a hostel in the early 1900s to look after travellers arriving by mail coach in urgent need of food and a bed for the night.
- A hand delivered message was more likely to be read, or at least placed at the top of the pile, than a similar letter sent by mail.
- 1.2in singular A single delivery or collection of mail.
the new magazine that came in the mail today Example sentencesExamples - The butler showed up carrying yesterday's mail and the newspaper of today.
- Today started with the mail: another rejection for my book proposal.
- Five days later, when Sanura walked down the path to the road and the mailbox, she smiled at the paper that had been delivered with the mail.
- Every morning, I nervously check the mail, every morning, my heart misses a beat.
- Today the mail brought a puffy package from the eastern Seaboard; inside were two books by Patch Adams.
- Someone ruffles through today's mail; someone else drops a CD player.
- Vanities arrive by the cartful for her every morning with the mail.
- He sat at the kitchen table and poked at yesterday's mail with one finger.
- Yesterday's mail alone brought 2 manuscripts for endorsement - and I plan to endorse both.
- Looking at the mess on the desk, he noticed today's mail.
Synonyms post, letters, packages, parcels, correspondence, communications, airmail - 1.3 Email.
Example sentencesExamples - The virus, thought to have originated in the US, gets into email address books and sends multiple junk mails to each new address it finds while also infiltrating that new address to use any other addresses it opens up.
- I use a laptop with Linux, and I don't want people reading my mail if the laptop falls into the wrong hands.
- Once you combine encrypted mail with free Web storage space, you have the same functionality that a virtual safe-deposit box offers, for free.
- This piece of software is like a border security guard, sitting between your email software and your incoming mail.
- He thought as long as he signed on to the internet he would have mail waiting for him.
- 1.4dated A vehicle, such as a train, carrying mail.
- 1.5archaic A bag of letters to be conveyed by the postal system.
verbmālmeɪl [with object]1Send (a letter or package) using the postal system. if you will mail the coupon, we'll send you a free trial package Example sentencesExamples - Opportunity is a nice place to stop and stretch - a great name for a town and a great place to mail a letter or postcard.
- The stamps can then be used as postage from any Netherland Antilles port or onboard ship to mail a letter anywhere in the world.
- The completed ballot paper is then mailed back in a numbered envelope placed in another envelope.
- Yeah, the postmark definitely can trace to the post office where they mailed the letter.
- The cost of mailing a letter will not change until 2006.
- One can grab a bite at one of the many food outlets, shop for memories at souvenir stalls and mail a letter from the tiny post office.
- Donors were supplied with polling information; we mailed certified letters and express mail packages as well as highly personal appeals from Jim and his family.
- I don't know why people sell perfectly good stamps below face value when you can always use them to mail letters.
- The next day, he had two errands to run - one was to the post office to mail Laurie's letter.
- They drove to the post office to mail the letter in case someone found it before it could be posted.
- After I had mailed the letter Shawn and I started to head back home.
- Postal patrons also must complete customs forms and declarations pertaining to the contents of parcels being mailed.
- Josh is running at top speed to get to the post office in order to mail a letter for Kathy.
- Some of them will even write indignant ‘I'll never buy your product again’ letters and then, on their way home from mailing the letter, stop off and pick up the product.
- They make money not on stamps, but on the newspapers and candy bars that customers buy when they come in to mail a letter.
- She walked to the post office, where she bought a money order, and mailed the letter.
- Ask a 12-year-old when she last mailed a letter to Aunt Minnie and you're likely to get a blank stare.
- School administrators mailed letters to all parents of seventh graders describing the project.
- The children continued to share stories about times when they mailed a letter with their parents, or when they actually went to the post office.
- As a first point of contact, the project director mailed a letter briefly describing the project to potential participants.
Synonyms send, post, send by mail, send by post, dispatch, direct, forward, remit, transmit, email, airmail - 1.1 Send (someone) email.
Example sentencesExamples - Unless you feel it is from a legitimate company that has made a genuine mistake in mailing you, do not respond to spam email messages.
- When an anti-virus program from a remote system mails you out of the blue, tells you that it blocked a virus you sent, tells you that you are likely infected with a virus and advertises itself, the remote site is sending you spam.
- Theorton checked his e-mail later to find that Henry had mailed him back.
- So for example, if a friend (we'll call her Sally) mails you a jpeg as an email attachment, it will store this relationship.
- This is not really a question, but I can't seem to find an email address anywhere on this page to mail you with.
Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘traveling bag’): from Old French male ‘wallet’, of West Germanic origin. The notion ‘by post’ dates from the mid 17th century. nounmālmeɪl historical 1Armor made of metal rings or plates joined together flexibly. Example sentencesExamples - Each Corinthian soldier wore a simple coat of chain mail beneath a set of light plate mail, complete with a helm that was adorned with a small plume of pure white fur.
- Chain mail alternated with steel plates that had been bent around the knight seamlessly so as not to impede his movement.
- The twenty-five or so remaining Crimson Knights donned their plate mail and readied their weapons.
- At the head of the precision was a man clad entirely in gold plate mail with a crimson cape flung around his shoulders.
- They all wore the battle armour they brought with them; steel plate mail with high, circular collars and round shoulder pieces.
Synonyms armour, coat of mail, chain mail, chain armour - 1.1 The protective shell or scales of certain animals.
Example sentencesExamples - The man-beast tried to bit Wolfus, but his greenish dragon scale mail just wouldn't let its fang through.
- They probably need at least helms, to protect them from mobs of carrion birds, and mail on their bellies to cover ground-to-air arrows.
verbmālmeɪl [with object]Clothe or cover with mail. Example sentencesExamples - The Tapestry shows Norman knights and English soldiers wearing identical mailed hauberks or byrnies.
- They wore a mailed shirt called the 'hauberk', constructed of interlinked iron rings, which afforded protection to the body, upper arms and thighs.
Phrases The use of physical force to maintain control or impose one's will. Example sentencesExamples - Soft talk or big stick, carrot and stick, accept the velvet glove or face the mailed fist.
- The balance of the country's history - before and after independence - is overwhelmingly weighted in favour of the mailed fist rather than the velvet glove.
- Those original six are represented on the squadron's badge - the mailed fist apparently symbolises the first CO Lt Cdr R.F. Walker (apparent a ‘robust’ individual) and five clouds stand in for those five pilots.
- Inside the velvet glove is always the mailed fist.
- In 1992, the squadron's insignia was officially changed from the Green Pawn to the mailed fist and lighting bolt previously used by Attack Squadron 176.
Origin Middle English (also denoting the individual metal elements composing mail armor): from Old French maille, from Latin macula ‘spot or mesh’. |