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Mail Slot

Definition: Mail Slot

Mail Slot

Noun

1. A slot (usually in a door) through which mail can be delivered.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Modern Usage: Mail Slot

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You should have slipped it through the mail slot while you had the chance, Earl. (Neighbors; writing credit: Thomas Berger; Larry Gelbart)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mail Slot

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

mail slot

94
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Mail Slot

Language Translations for "mail slot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

levélnyílás (letter slot). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ailmay otslay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Mail Slot

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: maillots.

Words within the letters "a-i-l-l-m-o-s-t"

-1 letter: maillot, maltols, somital.

-2 letters: allots, almost, atolls, maills, maloti, maltol, slalom, smalti, smalto, stomal, tallis.

-3 letters: alist, allot, altos, atoll, atoms, iotas, lilts, limas, limos, litas, loams, lotas, maill, mails, maist, malls, malts, mills, milos, milts, moats, moils, moist, molal, molas, molls, molts, ollas, omits, ostia, salmi, salol, small, smalt, smolt, stall, still, stoai, stoma, tails, tamis, tills, toils, tolas, tolls.

-4 letters: ails, aims, aits, alit, alls, alms, also, alto, alts, amis, atom, ills, iota, lams, last, lati, lats, lilt, lima, limo, list, lits, loam, lost, lota, loti, lots, mail, mall, malt, mast, mats, mill, milo, mils, milt, miso, mist, moas, moat, moil, mola, moll, mols, molt, most, mots, oast, oats, oils, olla, omit, sail, sall, salt, sati, sial, sill, silo, silt, sima, slam, slat, slim, slit, slot, smit, soil, sola, soli, soma, stoa, tail, tali, tall, tams, taos, till, tils, toil, tola, toll, toms.

-5 letters: ail, aim, ais, ait, all, als, alt, ami, ill, ism, its, lam, las, lat, lis, lit, lot, mas, mat, mil, mis, moa, mol, mos, mot, oat, oil, oms, sal, sat, sim, sit, sol, som, sot, tam, tao, tas, til, tis, tom.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-l-l-m-o-s-t"
 

+2 letters: collimates, metalloids, molalities, osmolality, tamarillos, tomatillos.

 

+3 letters: allometries, collimators, mesothelial, misallocate, osmotically, plasmolytic, semitonally, somatically.

 

+4 letters: amontillados, calamitously, collimations, cosmetically, domestically, glioblastoma, homothallism, illuminators, isothermally, malacologist, misallocated, misallocates, monastically, multinomials, myeloblastic, osmolalities, rambouillets, slumpflation, steamrolling.

 

+5 letters: atomistically, balletomanias, bombastically, climatologies, climatologist, compellations, complaisantly, glioblastomas, homothallisms, illuminations, isometrically, isosmotically, lymphoblastic, malacologists, malariologist, megaloblastic, metalliferous, misallocating, misallocation, monometallism, monometallist, multihospital, onomastically, papillomatous, semipolitical, semitonically, slumpflations, somatological, symbiotically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Mail Slot


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 69 6C      53 6C 6F 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01101001 01101100 00100000 01010011 01101100 01101111 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#105 &#108 &#32 &#83 &#108 &#111 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0069 006C      0053 006C 006F 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47677578253788186

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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