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Verb: mail meyl- Send via the postal service
"I'll mail you the check tomorrow" - get off - Give to a courier to take to another place
"I'll mail you the paper when it's written" - post [Brit], send - Communicate electronically on the computer
"she e-mailed me the good news" - e-mail, email, netmail Noun: mail meyl- The bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service
- The system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office
"the mail handles billions of items every day"; "he works for the United States mail service" - mail service, postal service, post [Brit] - A conveyance that transports the letters and packages that are conveyed by the postal system
- Any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
"your mail is on the table" - post [Brit] - (Middle Ages) flexible armour made of interlinked metal rings
- chain mail, ring mail, chain armor [US], chain armour [Brit, Cdn], ring armor [US], ring armour [Brit, Cdn] - (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in
"you cannot send packages by electronic mail"; "you cannot send packages by e-mail" - electronic mail, e-mail, email
Sounds like: male Derived forms: mailing, mailed, mails See also: mailer, mailing Type of: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, body armor [US], body armour [Brit, Cdn], cataphract, coat of mail, collection, communicating, communication, conveyance, electronic communication, message, send, send out, suit of armor [US], suit of armour [Brit, Cdn], telecommunicate, transfer, transport Encyclopedia: Mail Mail, Shetland |