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Definition: Mail |
Noun1. The bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service. 2. The system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office. 3. A conveyance that transports mail. 4. Any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered; "your mail is on the table"; "is there any post for me?"; "she was opening her post". 5. (medieval) flexible armor; made of interlinked metal rings. Verb1. Send via the postal service; "I'll mail you the check tomorrow". 2. Cause to be directed or transmitted to another place; "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mail" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Mail |
Post & Telecom | Dispatches of correspondence and other objects tendered by and intended for delivery to postal administrations. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Mail (aka Mail.app) is an email program made by Apple Computer included in Mac OS X. Mail in its current form for Mac OS X does not run on any operating system other than Mac OS X, however previous versions were included in NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP.
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Larger versionIncluded Mac OS X, it integrates with other Apple applications such as Address Book and iCal. Mail includes features such as mail rules for mailboxes, junk mail filtering and multiple account management.
External links
- Apple: Mail
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Chainmail is a material used to make armour, and consists of small rings of metal put together to form a mesh. Chainmail has been used at least since the time of the Roman Empire, and was an important armour material up until fully articulated plate armour became available. Several ways of linking the rings together have been known since ancient times, the most common being the 1-to-4 pattern where each ring is linked with four others.The word chainmail is actually an anachronism. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, it was simply called "mail", "maile" or "maille"; derived, through the Italian "maglia", from Latin "macula" - meaning "net".
Manufacture
In Europe, the 1-to-4 pattern was almost completely dominant, with 1-to-6 being seen very rarely. In East Asia (primarily Japan), chainmail was also common, but here several more patterns were utilized and an entire nomenclature developed around them. In the Middle East, yet other patterns were developed and often combined with metal plates linked in with the rings.
Historically, the rings composing a chainmail armour would be riveted or welded shut, to reduce the chance of the rings splitting open when subjected to a thrusting attack or a hit by an arrow.
In modern reenactment and live-action roleplaying (LRP), suits of chain mail are hand-made from rings of wire. They may or may not be welded or soldered but are rarely riveted. They may alsobe made of split sprung steel washers. Usually two pairs of pliers are used to bend the washers open and closed whilst "knitting" the chainmail. The resulting mail is usually heavier than traditional wire-wound mail.
Trivia
In tests during the World War I, chainmail was tested as a material for bullet proof vests, but results were unsatisfactory, as the rings would fragment and further aggravate the damage. A mail fringe, designed by Captain Cruise of the British Infantry, was also added to helmets to protect the face but this proved unpopular with soldiers, in spite of being tested proof against a three-ounce shrapnel round fired at a distance of one hundred yards (92.3m).
In many films, chainmail is sometimes substituted for by knitted cloth spray painted with a metallic paint. There are also machines which knit metal wires to produce something which looks somewhat like mail, usually for use on things like butchers' gloves.
Links
- How to make chainmail mesh [1]
- Another howto make chainmail [1]
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Chainmail."
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E-mail, or email, is short for "electronic mail" (as opposed to conventional mail, in this context also called snail mail) and refers to composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. Most e-mail systems today use the Internet, and e-mail is one of the most popular uses of the Internet.
E-mail before the Internet
Despite common belief, e-mail actually pre-dates the Internet; in fact, existing e-mail systems were a crucial tool in creating the Internet.
E-mail started in 1965 as a way for multiple users of a time-sharing mainframe computer to communicate; although the exact history is murky, among the first systems to have such a facility were SDC's Q32 and MIT's CTSS.
E-mail was quickly extended to become network e-mail, allowing users to pass messages between different computers. The early history of network e-mail is also murky; the AUTODIN system may have been the first allowing electronic text messages to be transferred between users on different computers, in 1966, but it is possible the SAGE system had something similar some time before.
The ARPANET computer network significantly increased the popularity of e-mail. There is one report [1] which indicates experimental inter-system e-mail transfers on it shortly after its creation, in 1969. The use of the "@" sign to separate the names of the user and their machine, was initiated by Ray Tomlinson in 1972; the common report that he "invented" email is an exaggeration, although his early e-mail programs SNDMSG and READMAIL were very important.
Since not all computers or networks were directly inter-networked, e-mail was forwarded between sites using protocols such as UUCP, and e-mail addresses had to include the "route" of the message, that is, a path between the computer of the sender and the computer of the receivers. E-mail could be passed this way between a number of networks, including the ARPANET, BITNET and NSFNET, as well as to hosts connected directly to other sites via UUCP.
The route was specified using so-call "bang path" addresses, specifying hops to get from some assumed-reachable location to the addressee, so called because each hop is signified by a "bang sign", i.e. Exclamation mark. Thus, for example, the path ...!bigsite!foovax!barbox!me directs people to route their mail to machine bigsite (presumably a well-known location accessible to everybody) and from there through the machine foovax to the account of user me on barbox.
Before auto-routing mailers became commonplace, people often published compound bang addresses using the { } convention (see glob) to give paths from several big machines, in the hopes that one's correspondent might be able to get mail to one of them reliably (example: ...!{seismo, ut-sally, ihnp4}!rice!beta!gamma!me). Bang paths of 8 to 10 hops were not uncommon in 1981. Late-night dial-up UUCP links would cause week-long transmission times. Bang paths were often selected by both transmission time and reliability, as messages would often get lost. See the network and sitename.
Modern internet e-mail
Nowadays, almost all e-mail is delivered directly to Internet-connected hosts, using DNS MX records and SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). Very few modern servers allow routing (automatic or manual) any more due the potential for abuse by people sending unsolicited bulk email. Those that do allow it are called open relayss.
A modern Internet e-mail address is a string of the form jsmith@corporation.com. It should be read as "jsmith at corporation.com". The first part is the username of the person, and the second part is the hostname of the computer in which that person has an e-mail account.
The format of internet e-mail messages is defined in RFC 2822. Prior to the introduction of RFC 2822 the format was described by RFC 822.
Internet e-mail messages typically consist of two major components:
The headers usually have at least four fields:
- Headers - Message summary, sender, receiver, and other information about the e-mail
- Body - The message itself, usually containing a signature block at the end
Note however that the "To" field does not necessarily have the email address of the recipient. The information supplied in the headers on the recipients computer is similar to that found on top of a conventional letter. The actual information such as who the message was addressed to is removed by the mail server after it assigns it to the correct user's mailbox.
- From - The e-mail address of the sender of the message
- To - The e-mail address of the receiver of the message
- Subject - A brief summary of the contents of the message
- Date - The local time and date when the message was originally sent
Other common fields include:
- Cc - Carbon copy (because typewriters used carbon film to copy what was written on them)
- Bcc - Blind carbon copy (the recipient of this copy will know who was in the To: field, but the recipients cannot see who is on the Bcc: list)
- Received - Tracking information generated by mail servers that have previously handled a message
- Content-Type - Information about how the message has to be displayed, usually a MIME type
Messages and mailboxes
Messages are exchanged between hosts using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol with software like Sendmail. Users download their messages from servers usually with either the POP or IMAP protocols, yet in a large corporate environment users are likely to use some proprietary protocol such as Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange Server's.
Mails can be stored either on the client or on the server side. Standard formats for mailboxes include Maildir and mbox. Several prominent e-mail clients use their own, proprietary format, and require conversion software to transfer email between them.
E-mail content encoding
E-mail is only defined to carry 7-bit ASCII messages. Although many e-mail transports are in fact "8-bit clean", this cannot be guaranteed. For this reason, e-mail has been extended by the MIME standard to allow the encoding of binary attachments including images, sounds and HTML attachments.
Spamming and e-mail worms
The usefulness of e-mail is being threatened by two phenomena, spamming and e-mail worms.
Spamming is unsolicited commercial e-mail. Because of the very low cost of sending e-mail, spammers can send hundreds of millions of e-mail messages each day over an inexpensive Internet connection. Hundreds of active spammers sending this volume of mail results in many computer users receiving tens or even hundreds of junk e-mails each day.
E-mail worms use e-mail as a way of replicating themselves into vulnerable computers. Although the first e-mail worm (the Morris worm) affected early UNIX computers, this problem is today almost entirely confined to the Microsoft Windows oprerating system.
The combination of spam and worm programs results in users receiving a constant drizzle of junk e-mail, which reduces the usefulness of E-mail as a practical tool.
A number of initiatives are under way to mitigate these problems: see the article stopping E-mail abuse.
Further Reading
See also:
- Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (Simon and Schuster, 1996) also covers the early history of e-mail
- E-mail art
- E-mail social issues:
- netiquette
- Internet humor
- Internet slang
- spam
- virus.
- email client
- electronic mailing list
- mailing list archive
- webmail
- mail transfer agent
- e-mail address
- Hotmail.com
- computing
- branded email
External links
This article, or an earlier version, contains content derived from FOLDOC, used by permission.
- The History of Electronic Mail is a personal memoir by the implementer of one of the first e-mail systems
- Michael A. Padlipsky, And They Argued All Night... is an alternative personal recollection of the origins of network e-mail
- The First E-Mail Message is an article about the history of network e-mail; contains some errors
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "E-mail."
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Postal service redirects here. There is also a band called The Postal Service. The postal system is a system for transporting written documents typically enclosed in envelopes and also small packages containing other matter, around the world. Anything sent through the postal system is called mail or post.
In principle a postal service can be private or official. Restrictions are generally placed on private systems by governments. Since the 19th century national postal systems have generally been established as government monopolies with postage (tax) on the article prepaid.
Worldwide the most common method of prepaying the tax is by affixing a self-adhesive postage stamp; the much less common method is to use a postage-prepaid envelope. Franking is a method of creating postage-prepaid envelopes under licence using a special machine. They are used by companies with large mail programs such as banks and direct mail companies.
In 1998 the U.S. Postal Service authorised the first tests of a secure system of sending digital franks via the Internet to be printed out on a PC printer, obviating the necessity to license a dedicated franking machine and allowing companies with smaller mail programs to make use of the option. The service provided by the U.S. Postal Service in 2003 allows the franks to printed out on special adhesive-backed labels. The system is expected to be taken up over time by postal administrations right around the world.
The world-wide postal system comprising the individual national postal systems of the world's self-governing states is co-ordinated by the Universal Postal Union, which among other things sets international postage rates, defines standards for postage stamps and operates the system of International Reply Coupons.
Since the advent of e-mail, which is usually faster, the postal system has come to be referred to in internet slang as "snail mail".
Communication via written documents that an intermediary carries from one person or place to another almost certainly dates back almost to the invention of writing. The development of a formal postal system comes much later, however. The first documented use of an organized courier service for the diffusion of written documents is in Egypt, where Pharaohs used couriers for the diffusion of their decrees in the territory of the State (2400 BC). This practice almost certainly has roots in the much older practice of oral messaging and may have been built on a pre-existing infrastructure.
The first credible claim for the development of a real postal system comes from Assyria, but the point of invention remains in question. The best documented claim (Xenophon) attributes the invention to Cyrus the Great (550 BC), while other writers credit his successor Darius I of Persia (521 BC) Other sources claim much earlier dates for an Assyrian postal system, with credit given to Hammurabi (1700 BC) and Saragon II (722 BC). Mail may not have been the primary mission of this postal service, however. The role of the system as an intelligence gathering apparatus is well documented, and the service was (later) called angariae, a term that in time turned to indicate a tax system. The Old Testament (Esther, VIII) makes mention of this system: Ahasuerus, king of Medes, used couriers for communicating his decisions.
The next credible claimant to the title of first postal system is China. Claims concerning the origins of this mail system also conflict somewhat, but it is clear that an organized postal infrastructure is put in place during Qin Dynasty (221 BC-207 BC) and that is is substantially expanded during the subsequent Han Dynasty. The origins of a Chinese mail system may go back to the Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC), when Confucius (551 BC-479 BC) says "news of deeds travels faster than the mail." It may also build on a pre-existing messaging infrastructure started by the Shang Dynasty. Whatever its point of origin, the Chinese Postal Service has clear title to the world's oldest continuously operating mail system. Today's Chinese mail system is continuous with one that was probably formalized under the Qin Dynasty.
The first well documented postal service is that of Rome. Organised at the time of Augustus Caesar (62 BC-AD 14), it may also be the first true mail service. The service was called cursus publicus, and was provided with light carriages called rhedae with fast horses; additionally there was another, slower, service equipped with two-wheels carts (birolae) pulled by oxen. This service was reserved to the government's correspondence, another service for citizens was later added.
By the name of the stations in which mail was distributed and messengers' routes crossed, derives the latin name of mail, Posta (originally posata or pausata = place of rest) because in these stations messengers used to rest during their voyages. The english term "mail" is instead supposed coming from the Teutonic name for the bag used by messengers.
Another important postal service was created in the Islamic world by the caliph Moàvia; the service was called berid, by the name of the towers that were built in order to protect the roads by which couriers travelled.
Well before the Middle Ages and during them, carrier pigeons were used, taking advantage of a singular quality of this bird, that when taken far from its nest is able to find his way home due to a particularly developed sense of orientation. Messages were then tied around the legs of the pigeon that was freed and could reach his original nest.
Mail has been transported by quite a few other methods throughout history, including dogsled, balloon, rocket, mule, and even submarine.
Charlemagne extended to the whole territory of his empire the system used by Franks in northern Gaul, and connected this service with the service of missi dominici.
Many religious orders had a private mail service, notably Cistercians's one connected more than 6,000 abbeys, monasteries and churches. The best organisation however was created by Teutonic Knights. The newly insitituted universities too had their private services, starting from Bologna (1158)
Popular illiteracy was accommodated through the service of scribes. Illiterates who needed to communicate dictated their messages to a scribe, another profession now quite generally disappeared.
In 1505, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I established a postal system in the Empire, appointing Franz von Thurn und Taxis to run it. Von Thurn und Taxis' family, then known as Tassis, had operated postal services between Italian city states from 1290 onwards. Following the abolition of the Empire in 1806 the Thurn und Taxis postal system continued as a private organisation, continuing to exist into the postage stamp era before finally being absorbed into the postal system of the new German Empire after 1871.
Modern mail is usually organised by national services (that in recent times are increasingly being replaced by privately-owned companies), reciprocally interconnected by international regulations (some of which still in their original 18th-century form, many others of which are set out by the Universal Postal Union), organisations and agreements.
As noted above, usually the payment for the service is settled with the attachment of a pre-paid postage stamp; when the envelope or package to which the stamp or stamps are affixed is accepted into the mail by an officer or agent of the postal service the agent usually indicates by means of a cancellation that it is no longer valid for pre-payment of postage (the exceptions being when he neglects to do this, or for stamps that are pre-cancelled and thus do not require cancellation). Stamps are also object of a particular form of collecting called philately, and often their commercial value on this specific market becomes enormously greater that the printed one, even after use. Another form of collecting regards postcards, a document written on a single robust sheet of paper, usually decorated with photographic pictures or artistic drawings on one of the sides, and short messages on a small part of the other side, that also contained the space for the address. In strict philatelic usage, the postcard is to be distinguished from the postal card, which has a pre-printed postage on the card. The fact that this communication is visible by other than the receiver, often causes the messages to be written in jargons.
Mail is quite generally protected by the secret of correspondence (secretus epistulae), meaning that no letter or other document can be read by other than the receiver (under U.S. law, this only applies to First Class Mail). This right is usually guaranteed by most national constitutions, like the Mexican Constitution. Usually special procedures are required in case correspondence has to be, openly or discreetly, controlled by police. The operations of control of the private citizens' mail is called censorship and concerns social, political, legal aspects of the civil rights. While in most cases this censorship is exceptional, military censorship of mail, particularly of soldiers at the front, is routine and almost universally applied.
The use of mail is subject to common rules and a particular etiquette. After the discovery of new communicating systems and vehicles, mail lost most of its special charm in favour of more quickly connecting systems such as the telephone, and remained as a vehicle for commercial or formal documents. It is however still widely in use in more cultivated classes for personal communication; in particular, wedding invitations are always sent by mail.
In modern times, mainly in 20th century, mail has found an evolution in vehicles using newer technologies to deliver the documents, especially through the telephone network; these new vehicles include telegram, telex, fac-simile (fax), e-mail, short-message-service (sms). There have been methods which have combined mail and some of these newer methods, such as INTELPOST, which combined facsimile transmission with overnight delivery. These vehicles commonly use a mechanical or electro-mechanical standardised writing (typing), that on the one hand makes for more efficient communication, while on the other hand makes impossible characteristics and practices that traditionally were in conventional mail, such as calligraphy.
This epoch is undoubtedly mainly dominated by mechanical writing, with a general use of no more of half a dozen standard typographic fonts from standard keyboards. However, the increased use of typewritten or computer-printed letters for personal communication and the advent of e-mail, has sparked renewed interest in calligraphy, as a letter has become more of a "special event." Long before e-mail and computer-printed letters, however, decorated envelopes, rubber stamps and artistamps formed part of the medium of mail art.
The ordinary mail service was improved in 20th century with the use of planes for a quicker delivery (air mail). The first scheduled airmail service took place between the London suburbs of Hendon and Windsor on 9 September 1911. Some methods of airmail proved ineffective, however, including the United States Postal Service's experiment with guided missiles for international mail transport (external link).
Receipts services were made available in order to grant the sender a confirmation of effective delivery.
In many countries a system of codes has been created (they are called zip codes in the United States and postal codes in most other countries), in order to facilitate the automation of operations.
A make-shift mail method after stranding on a deserted island is a message in a bottle.
Letters are often studied as an example of literature, and also in biography in the case of a famous person. A portion of the New Testament of the Bible is composed of the Apostle Paul's epistles to Christian congregations in various parts of the Roman Empire. Other famous letters include:
A style of writing, called epistolary, tells a fictional story in the form of the correspondence between two or more characters.
- Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet
- Martin Luther King, Jr's Letter from Birmingham Jail
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mail."
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Snail mail is a derogatory term (named after the snail with its proverbially low speed) used to refer to letters and missives carried by conventional postal delivery services, and refers to the inevitable lag-time between dispatch of a letter and its receipt relative to the virtually instantaneous despatch and delivery of its electronic equivalent, e-mail.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Snail mail."
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Webmail is a World Wide Web interface that allows users to read and write E-mail using a Web browser.
Webmail is commonly offered as a service by Internet companies, often in exchange for providing personal information for marketing purposes.
Most webmail services have the following features:
Several webmail services offer the following features:
- folders
- filtering (incoming email to dispatch to related folder)
- trash folder
- address book
- spam detection
- POP3 mail retrieval
- antivirus for mail attachements
- dictionary and thesaurus when composing messages
- spell checker
Advantages of webmail services
- Email can be read and composed anywhere a person has access to a web browser.
- Messages do not have to be downloaded.
- Many services allow anonymous sign-ups.
Disadvantages of webmail services
- The user must stay online to read and write email.
- Commercial webmail services often offer only limited email storage space and deliver advertisements.
- Heavy use of webmail over a slow network connection can be tedious.
History
Historically, the first webmail service was Hotmail. Hotmail was Created by Sabir Bhatia in India. Hotmail became very popular, and was later bought by Microsoft and rebranded MSN Hotmail. There are now many other webmail services available.There is webmail software available that allows one to create one's own webmail server.
External links
- List of webmail softwares/librairies
- Webmail directories and guides
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Webmail."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| MASAI | English | Mail Advertising Service Association International | N/A |
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Synonyms: MailSynonyms: chain armor (n), chain armour (n), chain mail (n), mail service (n), postal service (n), ring armor (n), ring armour (n), ring mail (n), get off (v), post (v), send (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Defense | Bulletproof vest, armored vest, buffer, corner stone, fender, apron, mask, gauntlet, thimble, carapace, armor, shield, buckler, aegis, breastplate, backplate, cowcatcher, face guard, scutum, cuirass, habergeon, mail, coat of mail, brigandine, hauberk, lorication, helmet, helm, bassinet, salade, heaume, morion, murrion, armet, cabaset, vizor, casquetel, siege cap, headpiece, casque, pickelhaube, vambrace, shako; (dress). |
Messenger | Mail, overnight mail, express mail, next-day delivery; post, post office; letter bag; delivery service; United Parcel Service, UPS; Federal Express, Fedex. |
Transference | Send, delegate, consign, relegate, turn over to, deliver; ship, embark; waft; shunt; transpose; (interchange); displace; throw; drag; mail, post. |
Vehicle | Train; accommodation train, passenger train, express trail, special train, corridor train, parliamentary train, luggage train, freight train, goods train; st class train, nd class train, rd class train, st class carriage, nd class carriage, rd class carriage, st class compartment, nd class compartment, rd class compartment; rolling stock; horse box, cattle truck; baggage car, express car, freight car, parlor car, dining car, Pullman car, sleeping car, sleeper, dome car; surface car, tram car, trolley car; box car, box wagon; horse car; bullet train, shinkansen, cannonball, the Wabash cannonball, lightning express; luggage van; mail, mail car, mail van. |
Post chaise, diligence, stage; stage coach, mail coach, hackney coach, glass coach; stage wagon, car, omnibus, fly, cabriolet, cab, hansom, shofle, four-wheeler, growler, droshki, drosky. | |
Equipage, turn-out; coach, chariot, phaeton, break, mail phaeton, wagonette, drag, curricle, tilbury, whisky, landau, barouche, victoria, brougham, clarence, calash, caleche, britzka, araba, kibitka; berlin; sulky, desobligeant, sociable, vis-a-vis, dormeuse; jaunting car, outside car; dandi; doolie, dooly; munchil, palki; roller skates, skate; runabout; ski; tonjon; vettura. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I want him manning a radar tower in Alaska by the end of the day. Just mail him his clothes (Mission: Impossible; writing credit: David Koepp and Robert Towne. Based on the television series) ! Overbilling, mail fraud (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe) Excuse me. I'm not getting any of my mail, nothing has been filed (Big; writing credit: Gary Ross; Anne Spielberg) Greg's a mail nurse (Meet the Parents; writing credit: Greg Glienna; Mary Ruth Clarke) I don't feel the sickness yet, but it's in the mail, that's for sure (Trainspotting; writing credit: John Hodge. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.) | |
Lyrics | She called and said that I had mail waiting there for me (Yes!; performing artist: Chad Brock) Gonna mail it to my local DJ (Roll Over Beethoven; performing artist: Chuck Berry) Mail (LOVE IS IN CONTROL; performing artist: Donna Summer) Now all I get is hate mail all day sayin Dre fell off (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre) We just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail (Sing For The Moment; performing artist: EMINEM) | |
Clever | God answers knee mail. (references; author: unknown) Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks. (references; author: unknown) Sleeping on the job: The mail courier flipped out and pulled a gun, so I was playing dead to avoid getting shot. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bangalore Mail (1968) Mail Order Confidential (1968) A Tale of Mail (1966) Mail Order Bride (1964) The First Fast Mail (1961) | |
Song Titles | Check's In The Mail, The (performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The Understanding AIDS campaign marked the first time the federal government had attempted to contact virtually every resident, directly by mail, regarding a major public health problem. Credit: CDC. |  | In mail plane enroute to NOAA Ship FAIRWEATHER. Near Tenakee Inlet. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A Norseman airplane delivering the mail. All mail was airmail in the Arctic field camps. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Rogue River - Wild section, near Watson Creek. Commercial Jet boat from Gold Beach "Mail Boat". Credit: 1988. |
 | [Fumigation:] Directions For Disinfecting Mail By The Use Of Sulphur Dioxide Gas. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Mail room. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Crewmen reading their mail, after returning to Pearl Harbor from the Makin Island Raid, 26 August 1942. The gun behind them is a 6"/53. Credit: NAVY. |  | Postal cachet commemorating the "Able" Day atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll, 1 July 1946. The cachet, designed by Gunnery Sergeant Grant Powers, USMC, was used on mail sent from USS Appalachian (AGC-1) on that day. Credit: NAVY. |
 | New method of assorting the mail, as practised by Southern slave-holders, or attack on the Post Office, Charleston, S.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | All right in its place, but it's a big burden for the U.S. mail to carry. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Crane" by Lukasz Sz. Commentary: "If u want big size, full coolr or other thing, plz mail me... ." | "Screw pieces 1" by Laszlo Csete Commentary: "Some fasteners. Please drop me a mail if you use it : )." |
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C.f. Kettering | If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf. |
Henry L. Stimson | Gentlemen do not read each other's mail. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The collision with the mail wagon had broken two spokes and loosened the hub so that the nut no longer held |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He was travelling with his father by the night mail to Cork |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You should receive your Medicare premium bill in the mail by the 10th of the month. (references) | |
Home-based programs incorporating limited hospital visits with regular mail or telephone followup by a nurse case manager have demonstrated significant increases in functional capacity, smoking cessation, and improvement in blood lipid levels. (references) | ||
Business | Authorities also open and censor domestic and international mail. (references) | |
Around mid-year, Wang Dan's family stopped receiving foreign mail. (references) | ||
Interestingly, consumers of all age groups purchase via mail order. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Tunisia | The offense of sending defamatory mail was transferred to the Postal Services Code. (references) |
Turkmenistan | There were credible reports that the Government took this measure in order to monitor Internet activity, especially electronic mail. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | In February the Government deported two foreign journalists, BBC correspondent Joseph Winter and Mail and Guardian reporter Mercedes Sayagues. (references) | |
Economic History | Korea | For example, San Diego-based Mail Boxes Etc. (references) |
Honduras | Actual sales, however, do not occur through the mail. (references) | |
India | The mail service in India is slow, though generally reliable. (references) | |
Human Rights | Uganda | Prison officials routinely censored prisoners' mail. (references) |
Greece | Some human rights monitors reported suspicious openings and diversions of mail. (references) | |
Colombia | The authorities may intercept mail or monitor telephones only with a judicial order. (references) | |
Political Economy | Yugoslavia | The Government at times infringed on privacy rights and monitored telephone, mail, and e-mail communications. (references) |
MALAYSIA | The paid-up capital requirement for single-level and mail order companies is RM 500,000 ($131,578). Existing licensed companies will be given one year to comply with this ruling. (references) | |
Bulgaria | Agreements on postal matters include a Memorandum of Understanding on the INTELPOST service (1990) and the International Express Mail Agreement (1991). Other trade-related agreements include a 1993 agreement on trade in textiles and textile products, the Investment Incentive Agreement (1991). (references) | |
Trade | Argentina | Regular mail should be used. (references) |
Venezuela | Venezuelan mail is very unreliable. (references) | |
Costa Rica | Mail shipments require only postal documentation. (references) | |
Travel | Mexico | Mail service can be unreliable. (references) |
Spain | Mail campaigns generally yield meager results. (references) | |
Czech Rep | Express mail is available through several companies. (references) | |
Worker Rights | India | Work by children under 14 years of age is barred completely in "hazardous industries," which includes among other things, passenger, goods, and mail transport by railway. (references) |
Russia | Many traffickers place ads in newspapers or public places for overseas employment; some employ women to pose as returned workers to recruit victims; some place Internet or other ads for mail order brides; some were recruited by partners or friends. (references) | |
Djibouti | At its 2000 annual conference, the ILO urged the Government to enact the labor resolutions that it had signed in 1998. The ILO noted ongoing abuses by the Government in forbidding union meetings and preventing union officials from receiving their mail. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character. Sharp, irresistible by mail or shield, By guard unparried as by flight unstayed, O serviceable Rumor, let me wield Against my enemy no other blade. His be the terror of a foe unseen, His the inutile hand upon the hilt, And mine the deadly tongue, long, slender, keen, Hinting a rumor of some ancient guilt. So shall I slay the wretch without a blow, Spare me to celebrate his overthrow, And nurse my valor for another foe. Joel Buxter |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
James Hewitt | I couldn't see her. And the wonderful thing is that there was a great effort made to get mail and that sort of thing to people on the front line. And it made an awful lot of difference. It is extremely good for morale. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | The current receipts will exceed the expenditures, although the transportation of the mail within the year has been much increased. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Within the last year the transportation of the mail in stages has been greatly augmented. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Your particular attention is invited to the subject of mail contracts with railroad companies. |
William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | Root before and after his noteworthy visit to that continent, and I sincerely hope that Congress may be induced to see the wisdom of a tentative effort to establish such lines by the use of mail subsidies. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | But when the checks arrived in the mail, most Americans thought tax relief was just about right. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Mail" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.73% of the time. "Mail" is used about 2,804 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 78.73% | 2,208 | 3,980 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.14% | 453 | 12,868 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.1% | 87 | 35,390 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.89% | 53 | 46,657 |
| Noun (common) | 0.14% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,804 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "mail" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Last name | 170 | 50,636 | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Daily Mail and General Trust PLC | USA | Pak Mail Centers of America, Inc. |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "mail": air mail ♦ bruising mail ♦ bulk mail ♦ business reply mail ♦ by mail ♦ certified mail ♦ chain mail ♦ chain mail glove ♦ coat of mail ♦ cultural mail ♦ direct mail advertisement ♦ domestic mail ♦ electronic computer originated mail ♦ electronic mail ♦ electronic mail address ♦ express mail ♦ fan mail ♦ first class mail ♦ FTP by mail ♦ Ground mail ♦ incoming mail ♦ Internet mail access protocol ♦ junk mail ♦ mail aircraft ♦ Mail and duties ♦ mail Application Programming Interface ♦ mail bag ♦ mail boat ♦ mail bomb ♦ mail box ♦ mail bridge ♦ mail call ♦ mail car ♦ mail carriage ♦ mail carrier ♦ mail cart ♦ Mail catcher ♦ mail clerk ♦ mail coach ♦ mail delivery ♦ mail drop ♦ mail Exchange Record ♦ mail exploder ♦ mail filter ♦ mail fist ♦ mail fraud ♦ mail gateway ♦ Mail guard ♦ mail hub ♦ mail man ♦ mail men ♦ mail merge ♦ mail office ♦ mail order ♦ mail order business ♦ mail order firm ♦ mail order house ♦ mail order selling ♦ mail out ♦ mail path ♦ mail plane ♦ mail pouch ♦ mail route to which dispatched ♦ mail server ♦ mail service ♦ mail sheep ♦ mail slot ♦ mail storm ♦ mail train ♦ mail user agent ♦ mail Users' Shell ♦ mail van ♦ Microsoft Mail ♦ Microsoft Mail Application Program Interface ♦ MS Mail ♦ multimedia Internet Mail Extensions ♦ multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions ♦ nixie mail ♦ non priority mail ♦ outgoing mail ♦ phone mail ♦ play by electronic mail ♦ priority mail ♦ privacy Enhanced Mail ♦ registered mail ♦ ring mail ♦ Riordan's Internet Privacy Enhanced Mail ♦ second class mail ♦ secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions ♦ send certified mail ♦ send smth. by certified mail ♦ shirt of mail ♦ simple Mail Transfer Protocol ♦ snail mail ♦ standardised technologies assisted mail processing ♦ standardized technologies assisted mail processing ♦ surface mail ♦ suspended mail bags ♦ the royal mail ♦ unaddressed direct mail ♦ unwanted mail. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mail": mail-armoured, mail-bag, mail-bags, mail-bomb, mail-box, mail-clad, mail-clad mailed, mail-coat, mail-delivery service, mail-enabled, mail-enabling, mail-fisted, mail-in, mail-in-offers, mail-interception, mail-it, mail-merge, mail-order, mail-order buying, mail-ordering, mail-out, mail-out/mail-back, mail-room, Mail-shell, mail-shot, mail-shots, Mail-trader, mail-vans. | |
Ending with "mail": chain-mail, direct-mail, hate-mail, voice-mail, Z-mail. | |
Containing "mail": air-mail postage, coat-of-mail shell, e-mail address. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
aol mail | 43,391 | msn mail | 1,500 |
| 27,553 | juno web mail | 1,440 | |
web mail | 17,148 | e mail finder | 1,413 |
mail box | 15,954 | aol mail.com | 1,296 |
globe and mail | 8,112 | cox mail web | 1,236 |
mail order bride | 5,327 | free mail | 1,232 |
yahoo mail check | 3,236 | direct mail | 1,212 |
form mail | 2,765 | mail server | 1,203 |
mail box etc | 2,707 | check mail | 1,082 |
earthlink web mail | 2,699 | us mail | 1,054 |
lycos mail | 2,623 | mail order catalog | 971 |
yahoo.com mail | 2,470 | charleston daily mail | 879 |
netscape web mail | 2,333 | russian mail order bride | 863 |
mail center | 1,889 | find e mail address | 773 |
check aol mail | 1,871 | e mail address search | 742 |
my yahoo mail | 1,865 | mail ru | 735 |
the check is in the mail | 1,861 | america online mail | 725 |
netscape mail | 1,717 | royal mail | 725 |
free e mail card | 1,596 | aol e mail | 682 |
voice mail | 1,510 | check by mail | 679 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "mail"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zhguall (shell, Testa), tren postar (mail train), thes me korrespondencë, postoj (post), postar (postal), postë (post, post office), letra (cards, postbag, squeezer), korrespondencë (correspondence), gjoksore metalike, çoj me post. (various references) | |
Arabic | مواد بريدية, حقيبة (bag, briefcase, carrier bag, case, handbag, valise), أرسل بالبريد (frank, post), رسائل, درع (aegis, armature, armor, armor plate, armored, armour, armour plate, armoured, corset, cuirass, hauberk, shield), بريد (post), برق (cable, flamboyance, flamboyancy, fulgurite, glimmer, lightning, shimmer, telegram, telegraph, thunderbolt, wire). (various references) | |
Asturian | carteru (mail carrier). (various references) | |
Basque | kaiza. (various references) | |
Bemba | uusenda ikalata (mail carrier). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ризница (cuirass, hauberk, plate armor, plate armour, ring-mail, sacristy), кореспонденция (correspondence), обличам в ризница, броня (aegis, armature, armor plate, armour, armour plate, bumper, corselet, cuirass, dashboard, fender, plate armor, plate armour, ring-mail, shell, splash-board, test), пускам (admit, bleed, cast off, course, discharge, dismiss, drive, drop, float, fly, give off, grow, issue, let, let fall, let go, let loose, play, push out, put forth, put on, put out, release, rip out, run, send forth, slip, start, start up, throw in, turn out, uncork, unhand, unleash), пращам по пощата (post), пощенска служба, пощенски (post, postal), поща (post, post office), покривам с ризница, писма и колети пратени заедно. (various references) | |
Cebuano | kartero (mail carrier). (various references) | |
Chinese | 郵件 (post), 郵 (post), 邮件 (Mailer). (various references) | |
Czech | poslat poštou (post), pošta (post, post office). (various references) | |
Danish | post (post). (various references) | |
Dutch | post (pole, post, stake, stanchion). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | quillcaraquic (mail carrier). (various references) | |
Esperanto | poŝto (post). (various references) | |
Faeroese | postur (post). (various references) | |
Farsi | پستی (Bastardization, Blackguardism, Misery, Postal, Recess, Ribaldry, Turpitude, Villainy, Vulgarity), پست (Abacinate, Abject, Cheap, Common, Currish, Despicable, Earthborn, Humble, Infamous, Inferior, Lily, Little, Menial, Peevish, Poor, Runty, Ungenerous, Venal, Vile, Villain, Villainous, Vulgar, Wretch, Wretched), چاپار (Post), نامه رسان (Post), زره دارکردن , زره (Armature, Armor), جوشن (Armature, Armor), باپست فرستادن . (various references) | |
Finnish | posti (post). (various references) | |
French | poste, courrier (piece of mail). (various references) | |
Frisian | post (post). (various references) | |
German | Post (mailing, post, post office), versenden (forward, send, ship, ship off, ship out, to convey), Briefpost (mail-carrier, mail-courier), aufgeben (abandon, check in, cry uncle, discontinue, dispatch, forsake, give in, give up, jack in, jettison, lay aside, lay away, part with, place, post, quit, register, relinquish, renounce, resign, say uncle, serve, set, submit, surrender, to abdicate, to capitulate, to dismiss, to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, vacate, yield). (various references) | |
Greek | ταχυδρομείο (mail office, post, post office), ταχυδρομώ (post, to post). (various references) | |
Hebrew | דואר (post). (various references) | |
Hungarian | posta (post, post office, postal, relay station), páncél (Armor, armour, armour-plating, carapace, crust, cuirass, shell). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengeposkan, melapis dengan baja. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | titiqaliriji (mail carrier). (various references) | |
Italian | posta (odds, parlay, post, post office), corriere (carrier, courier, express, messenger). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 郵便 (postal service), 郵便 (postal service), メール交換 (10^6, correspondence, exchange of letters, mace, mail order, mailer, mailing, mailing list, main, main amp, main bank, main course, main culture, main event, main gate, main pole, main stand, main street, main table, main title, mainframe, main-memory, make, make-up, mate, mechanic, mechanical, mechanical automation, mechanics, mechanism, mechatronics, mega-, mega trend, megacycle, megaton, MT), メートル法 (maid, mail order, mail survey, mailing, mailing list, mail-reader, mail-system, metric system, Moebius), 便 (chance, convenience, evacuation, excreta, facility, flight, letter, means, opportunity, post, service, stools, way), 〒 (postal service). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | メール , メイル , びん (becoming poor, bottle, chance, flight, letter, living in poverty, opportunity, post, poverty, service), ゆうびん (postal service). (various references) | |
Korean | 우편물 (mailing). (various references) | |
Macedonian | raznesuvach na posta (mail carrier). (various references) | |
Manx | shirveish phost, screeunyn, post (correspondence, post), eilley (armour), cur 'sy phost (post). (various references) | |
Norwegian | post (item, post). (various references) | |
Occitan | mala (tree trunk). (various references) | |
Papiamen | pòst (post). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ailmay.(various references) | |
Polish | poczta (post). (various references) | |
Portuguese | correio (courier, mailman, post, post office, postman, runner), expedição (delivery, despatch, expedition, ploy, sending, shipment, shipping, transport). (various references) | |
Provencal | postièra (mail carrier), postièr (mail carrier). (various references) | |
Romanian | zale (hauberk), za (link), poştå (post, post office), poştã (post), platoşã (Armor, armour, breastplate, hauberk), expedia prin poştã, corespondenţã (connection, correspondence, letter-writing, respondence), chiurasã (cuirass), carapace (armature, Armor, armour, carapace, shell, shield, test). (various references) | |
Russian | щиток (corymb, dashboard, scute, scutum, shinguard), кольчуга (chain armour, chain mail, coat of mail, habergeon, hauberk, ring-mail), мешок с почтой (pouch), посылать по почте, почтовый перевод, почтовый (post office, postal), почтовая корреспонденция, почта (post, post office, postoffice), дорожный мешок. (various references) | |
Samoan | pule (mail carrier). (various references) | |
Scottish | mùrla (a coat of mail), màille (mail armour), lùireach (a coat of mail, large cloak or covering). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | poslati poštom (post), poštanski (post office, postal), pošta (post, post office, posthouse), pošiljke, pisma, pancir (armor, armour), oklop (armature, armor, armor plate, armour, armour plate, corslet, cuirass, suit of armor). (various references) | |
Spanish | correo (dispatch rider, mailman, messenger, post, postman), enviar por correo. (various references) | |
Swazi | tí-ncwâdzi. (various references) | |
Swedish | post (entry, item, lot, mailing, post, postal, quarter). (various references) | |
Thai | เกราะ, ไปรษณียภัณฑ์, พาหนะบรรทุกไปรษณียภัณฑ์, ส่งทางไปรษณีย์, การขนส่งทางไปรษณีย์, ระบบไปรษณีย์, หุ้มเกราะ (ironclad), จดหมาย (letter). (various references) | |
Turkish | zırh (armature, Armor, armour, breastplate, coat of mail, corselet, cuirass, edging, harness, sheathing, sheeting, shield), postaya vermek, postalamak (post), posta (post, post boy, postal, postal service), örgü zırh. (various references) | |
Turkmen | poзta (post). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кольчуга (byrnie, hauberk), вкривати бронею, броня (armature, armour, cuirass), посилати поштою, пошта (post), податок (impost, tax). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thư từ, bưu kiện, áo giáp. (various references) | |
Welsh | llurigog (mail-clad), llurig (coat of mail, cuirass), archeb bost (mail order, postal order). (various references) | |
Zulu | iposi (post), iliposi (post). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | macula. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | maille, male. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 3, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Apoloito h hmera en h egennhqhn kai h nux en h eipan idou arsen |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Pereat dies in qua natus sum et nox in qua dictum est conceptus est homo |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And the nyyt in the whiche it is seid, A man is conceyued. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a mail child conceived. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Job Chapter 3, Verse 3 |
| Albanian | "Humbtë dita në të cilën linda dhe nata që tha: "U ngjiz një mashkull!". |
| Cebuano | Wagtanga ang adlaw nga akong gikatawohan, Ug ang gabii nga miingon: Adunay usa ka bata nga lalake nga gipanamkon. |
| Croatian | "O, ne bilo dana kad sam se rodio i noæi što javi: 'Zaèeo se djeèak!' |
| Danish | Bort med den Dag, jeg fødtes, den Nat, der sagde: "Se, en Dreng!" |
| Dutch | De dag verga, waarin ik geboren ben, en de nacht, waarin men zeide: Een knechtje is ontvangen; |
| Finnish | "Kadotkoon se päivä, jona minä synnyin, ja se yö, joka sanoi: `Poika on siinnyt`. |
| German | Der Tag müsse verloren sein, darin ich geboren bin, und die Nacht, welche sprach: Es ist ein Männlein empfangen! |
| Haitian Creole | -Se pou Bondye efase jou m' te fèt la. Se pou l' efase jou lannwit m' te konmanse devlope nan vant manman m' lan. |
| Hungarian | Veszszen el az a nap, a melyen születtem, és az az éjszaka, a melyen azt mondták: fiú fogantatott. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Baiklah hari itu hilang, yang padanya aku sudah jadi dan malampun yang padanya orang sudah berkata demikian: Seorang anak laki-laki sudah diterima. |
| Italian | Perisca il giorno in cui nacqui e la notte in cui si disse: «E' stato concepito un uomo!». |
| Korean | 나 의 난 날 이 멸 망 하 였 었 더 라 면, 남 아 를 배 었 다 하 던 그 밤 도 그 러 하 였 었 더 라 면, |
| Maori | Kia ngaro te ra i whanau ai ahau, te po i korerotia ai, He tamaroa kei roto i te kopu. |
| Norwegian | Til grunne gå den dag da jeg blev født, og den natt som sa: Et guttebarn er undfanget! |
| Portuguese | Pereça o dia em que nasci, e a noite que se disse: Foi concebido um homem! |
| Rumanian | ,,Blestematq sq fie ziua kn care m`am nqscut, |
| Russian | РПЗЙВОЙ ДЕОШ, Ч ЛПФПТЩК С ТПДЙМУС, Й ОПЮШ, Ч ЛПФПТХА УЛБЪБОП: ЪБЮБМУС ЮЕМПЧЕЛ! |
| Swedish | Må den dag utplånas, på vilken jag föddes, och den natt som sade: "Ett gossebarn är avlat." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mail": mailabilities, mailability, mailable, mailbag, mailbags, mailbomb, mailbombed, mailbombing, mailbombs, mailbox, mailboxes, maile, mailed, mailer, mailers, mailes, mailing, mailings, maill, mailless, maillot, maillots, maills, mailman, mailmen, mails. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "mail": airmail, blackmail, camail, email, graymail, greenmail, remail. (additional references) | |
Words containing "mail": airmailed, airmailing, airmails, blackmailed, blackmailer, blackmailers, blackmailing, blackmails, camailed, camails, emailed, emailing, emails, graymails, greenmailed, greenmailer, greenmailers, greenmailing, greenmails, remailed, remailing, remails. (additional references) | |
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"Mail" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amal, amial, Amil, amild, amol, maal, Mabila, Maciel, macile, Madl, mael, Magiglo, magil, Mahl, maic, Maif, maila, maill, mailu, maip, mair, Maisl, mait, maiul, maix, maiz, Maizl, maji, malia, malic, malig, malik, malila, Malile, Malim, maoi, Maoile, marila, Masila, matily, mauii, mauil, maull, mauly, mavi, mawi, mawl, maxil, maxill, Mayol, Meehl, Mehill, Meihle, meil, meile, meill, meio, Meisl, meli, Melik, mfi, Mhail, mhil, miai, miak, mial, Miao, miau, miaz, Mibiol, mii, miii, mila, Mili, misil, Mji, Moily, Msai, Muil, muilt, musil, mwali, Mzali, Mzi, smali, smial, vmail, Xmai. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mail" (pronounced mā"l) |
| 3 | m ā" l | maile, male, tramell. |
| 2 | -ā" l | ail, ale, assail, avail, bail, bale, braille, Carrell, curtail, dale, derail, detail, entail, exhale, fail, flail, frail, gale, grail, hail, Hale, impale, stale, surveil, tail, tale, inhale, jail, kail, kale, nail, pail, pale, prevail, quail, quale, rail, sail, sale, scale, shale, snail, trail, travail, unveil, Vail, Vale, veil, wail, Wale, whale. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lima. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-m" | |
-1 letter: ail, aim, ami, lam, mil. | |
-2 letters: ai, al, am, la, li, ma, mi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-m" | |
+1 letter: claim, email, lamia, liman, limas, limba, limpa, maile, maill, mails, malic, miaul, milia, milpa, salmi. | |
+2 letters: aimful, allium, alumin, alumni, amidol, amylic, animal, baalim, calami, camail, chimla, claims, climax, dismal, emails, family, famuli, gamily, gimbal, gimmal, glioma, hamuli, hiemal, imbalm, impala, impale, kalium, kalmia, labium, lambie, lamiae, lamias, lamina, laming, limans, limbas, limina, limpas, lingam, lipoma, lumina, magilp, mailed, mailer, mailes, maills, mainly, malice, malign, maline, malkin, mallei, maloti, manila, marlin, mazily, mealie, medial, menial, mesial, miauls, miladi, milady, milage, milpas, miskal, mislay, missal, mitral, oilman, primal, ramtil, remail, salami, salmis, samiel, smalti, smilax, timbal, ultima. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Frequency 16. Names: Company Usage | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Bible Trace 22. Abbreviations 23. Acronyms 24. Derivations | 25. Rhymes 26. Anagrams 27. Bibliography |
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