Definitions for mail

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mail mail

Spelling: [meyl]

IPA: /meɪl/

Mail is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in mail (ailm).

Definitions for mail

noun

1. letters, packages, etc., that are sent or delivered by means of the postal system:
2. a single collection of such letters, packages, etc., as sent or delivered:
3. Also, mails. the system, usually operated or supervised by the national government, for sending or delivering letters, packages, etc.; postal system:
4. a train, boat, etc., as a carrier of postal matter.
5. electronic mail; email.
6. flexible armor of interlinked rings.
7. any flexible armor or covering, as one having a protective exterior of scales or small plates.
8. Textiles. an oval piece of metal pierced with a hole through which the warp ends are threaded, serving as an eyelet on a heddle or especially on the harness cords of a Jacquard loom.
9. monetary payment or tribute, especially rent or tax.

Idioms

1. copy the mail, Citizens Band Radio Slang. to monitor or listen to a CB transmission.

adjective

1. of or relating to mail.

verb (used with object)

1. to send by mail; place in a post office or mailbox for transmission.
2. to transmit by email.
3. to clothe or arm with mail.

Origin of mail

1175-1225; Middle English male (noun) Old French malle Germanic; compare Old High German mal(a)ha satchel, bag

Examples for mail

I will go down by the mail train to-night; I cannot rest until he is found.

Warne looked—in the words of the Daily mail—“like a spooky waxwork.”

I knew because I rifled through his mail that terrible October morning.

I, who wear no armor, will go as far as any one with breastplate of mail.

The mail, at this epoch, was very different from what it is at present.

He said the video was “a promotional thing” that he received in the mail at his church office.

Cadge fancies, I suppose, that by any mail I may get a big check from home.

He wrote a reply early in the afternoon, and insisted on going to mail it himself.

A Daily mail writer, wearing a facsimile of the dress, said it was sculpted to her body, but not restrictively so.

Hitchcock arrives about ten o'clock, reads his mail, and answers the few phone calls he gets.