mail
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *malhō
Frankish *malhabor.
Medieval Latin malader.
Anglo-Norman malebor.
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Old French malebor.
Middle English male
English mail
From Middle English male, from Anglo-Norman male, Old French male (“bag, wallet”), from Frankish *malha (“bag”), from Proto-Germanic *malhō (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *molko- (“leather pouch”). Compare Dutch maal.
Inflected forms:
form: mails
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mailed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A bag or wallet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
regional
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Meronym: mailpiece
Don't forget to pick up the mail on your way.
1823, The stranger in Liverpool; or, An historical and descriptive view of the town of Liverpool and its environs, Seventh Edition, T. Kaye, page 96,
The following are the hours at which the letter-box of this office is closed for making up the several mails, and the hours at which each mail is despatched: ¶ […]
1887, John Houston Merrill (editor), The American and English Encyclopædia of Law, Volume I, Edward Thompson, p.121,
If he retains the account, and permits several mails to pass without objecting to it, he will be held to have admitted its correctness.
The transfer by tender of some 1,300 mail bags was effected smartly, and the "Ocean Mails Special" train was ready at 9.19 a.m.
gloss: The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
examples: It should be in your mail today, unless the post office lost it!
gloss: A stagecoach, train or ship that delivers such post.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: 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; [...].
As he passed though the station, he slowed to yell to the signalman, Frank 'Sailor' Bridges: "Sailor - have you anything between here and Fordham? Where's the mail?" Gimbert knew the mail train was due, and he didn't want to endanger another train with his burning bomb wagon.
gloss: The postal service or system in general.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He decided to send his declaration by mail.
gloss: Electronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Yahoo Mail has been providing mail service since 1997.
gloss: Email messages conceived in bulk (as with the analogous sense of physical mail).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: You've got mail [old audio clip announcing new email in the 1990s-2000s]
gloss: An email message.
pos: noun
tags: India
countable
especially
examples: Please look through those mails and confirm whether you received the one about scheduling.
gloss: A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “Fetch me the little private mail with the padlocks, that I recommended to your particular charge — d'ye hear?”
gloss: To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
gloss: To send by electronic mail.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: 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.
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 web space, your upload time and their download time […]
If you mail an attachment from one mail client then it does not matter if the receiver uses a different mail client. The mail you send should be able to be read from their mail client.
gloss: To contact (a person) by electronic mail.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
'Yes, at Quantico. She was so excited by it, she sent all those emails, you remember I told you about it -' 'Yes, she mailed me from there too.'
He mailed me and said he had managed to hack into my email accounts.
Derived words: accountable mail
admail
advertising mail
aeromail
air mail
airmail
balloon mail
barfmail
bicycle mail
bugmail
buttock mail
by return mail
carry the mail
certified mail
chain-mail
check is in the mail
cybermail
direct mail
dogsled mail
echomail
electronic mail
email
e-mail
e-mail address
facemail
fakemail
fan mail
flamemail
freemail
Gmail
G-mail
ham e-mail
hate mail
jingle mail
junk mail
mail art
mailbag
mail bag
mailboat
mail bomb
mail bombing
mail box
mailbox
mail-box
mailcall
mail car
mailcar
mail carrier
mail-carrier
mailcart
mailcatcher
mail-cheeked
mailclad
mail clerk
mailcoach
mail code
mail cover
maildrop
mailfile
mail fraud
mailgram
mail-in
mailing list
mail lady
mailless
mailman
mail merge
mail-merge
mail order
mail-order
mail-order bride
mail-out
mailout
mailpack
mailpeople
mailperson
mailpiece
mailplane
mail receptacle
mail relay
mailroom
mailrun
mails
mailsack
mailship
mail shirt
mailshot
mail slot
mail stop
mailstore
mailstorm
mail train
mail truck
mail user agent
mailvan
mailwoman
maily
mismail
modmail
netmail
nonmail
penny mail
play-by-mail
read the mail
registered mail
ringmail
seamail
silver mail
snail mail
snail-mail
surface mail
town mail
unmail
videomail
V-mail
v-mail
voicemail
voice mail
vote-by-mail
webmail
whitemail
zeppelin mail
chain mail
mailer
mailability
mailable
mailing
mail-in vote
mail it in
premail
remail
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: փոստ
roman: pʻost
lang: Belarusian
word: по́шта
roman: póšta
lang: Bulgarian
word: по́ща
roman: póšta
lang: Bulgarian
word: по́щенска слу́жба
roman: póštenska slúžba
lang: Czech
word: pošta
lang: Danish
word: postvæsenet
lang: Danish
word: posten
lang: Finnish
word: posti
lang: French
word: poste
lang: Galician
word: correo
lang: German
word: Post
lang: Greek
word: ταχυδρομείο
roman: tachydromeío
lang: Hungarian
word: posta
lang: Italian
word: poste
lang: Latvian
word: pasts
lang: Lithuanian
word: paštas
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Post
lang: Portuguese
word: correio
lang: Russian
word: по́чта
roman: póčta
lang: Slovak
word: pošta
lang: Spanish
word: correo
lang: Swedish
word: post
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: پوسته
roman: posta
lang: Ukrainian
word: по́шта
roman: póšta
lang: Yiddish
word: פּאָסט
roman: post