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noun- 1.
(countable, regional, uncountable)(now regional) A bag or wallet.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.
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.
Đồng nghĩa: snail mail
- 4.
(countable, dated, uncountable)A stagecoach, train or ship that delivers such post.
- 5.
(countable, uncountable)The postal service or system in general.
He decided to send his declaration by mail.
Đồng nghĩa: post
- 6.
(uncountable)Electronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages.
Yahoo Mail has been providing mail service since 1997.
Đồng nghĩa: email
- 7.
(uncountable)Email messages conceived in bulk (as with the analogous sense of physical mail).
You've got mail [old audio clip announcing new email in the 1990s-2000s]
Đồng nghĩa: email
- 8.
(India, countable, especially)(countable, especially India) An email message.
Please look through those mails and confirm whether you received the one about scheduling.
Đồng nghĩa: email
- 9.
(countable, uncountable)A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
- 10.
(uncountable, usually)(uncountable, history) Armour consisting of metal rings linked together.
- 11.
(broadly, uncountable, usually)(uncountable, by extension, now fiction, fantasy) Armour consisting of small plates linked together.
- 12.
(uncountable, usually)(nautical) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(ditransitive)To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.
- 2.
(ditransitive)To send by electronic mail.
Please mail me the spreadsheet by the end of the day.
- 3.
(transitive)To contact (a person) by electronic mail.
I need to mail my tutor about the deadline.
- 4.
(transitive)To arm with mail.
- 5.
(transitive)To pinion.
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From Middle English male, from male, Old French male (bag, wallet), from *malha (bag), from Proto-Germanic *malhō (bag, pouch), from Proto-Indo-European *molko- (leather pouch). Compare maal.