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Mailed

Definition: Mailed

Mailed

Adjective

1. Wearing protective mail.

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

Date "mailed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonym: Mailed

Synonym: mail-clad (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Mailed

English words defined with "mailed": absentee ballotbill, broadsheet, broadsidecircularflier, flyer, form letterGurnethandbillletter box, letter carrier, letter openermail bag, mail out, Mailer, mailing listpaperknife, Post billthrowaway. (references)
Specialty definitions using "mailed": American Community SurveyEAMM, ENERGY-CONSERVATION REPRESENTATIVElaboratory assistantMAIL CENSOR, maritime/military vessel enumeration, MRCpassbook account, Perfection, PMRSAMPLE CLERK, PAPER, Service Centers, statement savingsWilliam. (references)

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Modern Usage: Mailed

DomainUsage

Screenplays

This was mailed before I went to Seattle. (Sleepless in Seattle; writing credit: Nora Ephron)

I should have mailed it to the Marx Brothers. (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; writing credit: Mario Van Peebles)

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

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Commercial Usage: Mailed

DomainTitle

Books

  • Chivalry and the Mailed Knight (reference)

  • Letters I Wish I'd Mailed to the Man Who Divorced Me to Marry a Waitress (reference)

  • Mailed Fist (Fighting Saga of the Sas, Book 2) (reference)

  • Making Effective Use of Mailed Questionnaires (reference)

  • Northern Ireland - the mailed fist: a record of army & police brutality from Aug. 9 - Nov. 9, 1971 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Mailed

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

In all these matters, direct patient contact by providers in an organized program is preferred over indirect methods such as mailed information. (references)

Business

For Service Members, brochures from member organizations are mailed out to potential tourists. (references)

Charge account holders are informed of special sale announcements and in-store promotions via direct mail. During the Christmas season, catalogs are printed and mailed. (references)

Other defense procurements are advertised in the Norsk Lysningsblad (Norway's Gazette); however, in most cases the solicitations are mailed directly to suppliers known to the purchasing office. (references)

Civil Liberties

Uzbekistan

In November 2000, customs authorities confiscated several copies of the journal of the unregistered Birlik Democratic Movement that had been mailed to a private citizens on the grounds that the material was illegal and anticonstitutional. (references)

Economic History

South Africa

Reliable delivery of mailed items is a major inhibitor of e-commerce in South Africa. (references)

Cyprus

Direct marketing techniques involving telephone calls to prospective customers and brochures mailed directly to households have been used in recent years and so has telemarketing (advertising through the TV, with call-in numbers to order directly). (references)

Human Rights

Uzbekistan

The invitation, which had been mailed on May 28, was delivered opened. (references)

Armenia

The Commission reported that complaints mailed to them by prisoners were intercepted and given instead to the prison's warden. (references)

Minorities

Croatia

However, anti-Semitic letters were mailed to the Jewish Center in Zagreb in April and May and were turned over to the police; no arrests were made. (references)

Travel

Korea

The duty-free limit is $50 for bona fide gifts mailed to the United States. (references)

Korea

Due to the high potential for counterfeiting, items bearing the above-named trademarks (and several others) can only be legally mailed or carried into the United States, if they are the authentic articles. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed "Perfection," promptly wrote at the foot of the letter: "I don't agree with you," and mailed it to Matthew Arnold.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Mailed

"Mailed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 58.33% of the time. "Mailed" is used about 84 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)58.33%4948,677
Adjective (general or positive)21.43%1882,615
Lexical Verb (past tense)19.05%1687,710
Noun (proper)1.19%1339,140
                    Total100.00%84N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Mailed

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "mailed": E-mailed.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mailed

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

mailed most yahoo

3

card greeting mailed

3

bible free mailed

3

coupon mailed

2

design free guide mailed

2

mailed package tracking ups

2

mailed

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Mailed

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

Albanian

  

me gjoksore metalike, i mbuluar me njolla (blotchy, maculated). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

пуснат, изпратен. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

邮寄 (mailing). (various references)

   

Czech

  

obrnìný (armored, armoured, ironclad, steel-clad). (various references)

   

French

  

mis sous enveloppe l'adresse de. (various references)

   

German

  

abgesandt. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τεθωρακισμένοσ (ironclad, mail, panzer). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

páncélos (Armor, armor-clad, armored, armour, armour-clad, armoured, armour-plated, hard-shell, ironclad, iron-clad, mail-clad, panzer, steel plated, steel-clad, testaceous). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

우송하". (various references)

   

Manx

  

'sy phost, eillit (armoured). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ailedmay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

postado, couraçado (armor-clad, armour-clad, battle ship, dream), carruagem-correio, blindado (armor-clad, armored, armour-clad, armoured, pap, protected, screened, shielded, steel plated, steel-clad). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

защищенный броней, покрытый чешуйками. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pancirni, oklopni (armor, armor-clad, armored, armour, armour-clad, armoured, panzer). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

blindado (armor-clad, armored, armour-clad, armoured, panzer, plated). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skickat. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zırhlı (armed, armor-clad, armored, armor-plated, armour-clad, armoured, armour-plated, ironclad, panzer, steel-clad). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

броньований (armor-clad, armored, armor-plated, armour-clad, armoured, armour-plated, ironclad, panzer, protected, shellproof, steel plated, steel-clad), плямистий (dappled, maculated, ocellated, patchy, punctate, speckled, spotted, spotty). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

bạo lực (mailed fist), $the mailed_fist$ vũ lực (mailed fist). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Mailed

Derivations

Words ending with "mailed": airmailed, blackmailed, camailed, emailed, greenmailed, remailed. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Mailed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amild, kalied, Maaike, macile, magiced, maidel, maila, mailand, mailee, mailes, mailet, Mailey, Maillac, Maille, maillen, Maillet, mailu, maized, Majiblond, malde, malien, Malile, malined, Maoile, mapled, matilde, maxile, mayed, maylem, mbailem, mealed, Meigle, Meihle, meile, meilee, Miale, miaoued, miliolid. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Mailed"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "mailed" (pronounced mā"ld)
3-ā" l dassailed, availed, bailed, curtailed, derailed, detailed, entailed, exhaled, failed, hailed, impaled, inhaled, jailed, nailed, paled, prevailed, railed, regaled, sailed, scaled, tailed, trailed, unveiled, veiled, wailed.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Mailed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: medial.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-m"

-1 letter: ailed, aimed, amide, email, ideal, lamed, limed, maile, medal, media.

-2 letters: aide, alme, amid, amie, dale, dame, deal, deil, deli, dial, diel, dime, idea, idem, idle, ilea, lade, laid, lame, lead, lied, lima, lime, made, maid, mail, male, mead, meal, meld, mild, mile.

-3 letters: aid, ail, aim, ale, ami, dal, dam, del, die, dim, eld, elm, lad, lam, lea, led, lei, lid, lie, mad, mae, med, mel, mid, mil.

-4 letters: ad, ae, ai, al, am, de, ed, el, em, id, la, li, ma, me, mi.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-m"
 

+1 letter: claimed, decimal, declaim, dilemma, emailed, impaled, implead, limeade, medials, medical, melodia, miauled, misdeal, mislead.

 

+2 letters: camailed, climaxed, decimals, declaims, dilemmas, dimmable, dismaler, dreamily, endemial, gimbaled, halidome, idealism, imbalmed, imblazed, impleads, inflamed, landmine, limeades, maidenly, maladies, maledict, maligned, mandible, medaling, medalist, medallic, medially, medianly, medicals, medieval, melamdim, melanoid, melodias, melodica, miladies, misdeals, misdealt, misleads, misplead, remailed, remedial, semibald.

 

+3 letters: acclaimed, admirable, airmailed, alimented, almandine, almandite, amplidyne, amplified, amplitude, bedlamite, bromeliad, calamined, decimally, declaimed, declaimer, demential, demonical, denominal, dentalium, diametral, diplomaed, diplomate, dismalest, dismantle, dreamlike, epidermal, ethmoidal, exclaimed, feudalism, gimballed, halidomes, idealisms, imidazole, immolated, impaneled, impearled, implanted, impleaded, laminated, landmines, madeleine, madrilene, mainlined, maledicts, mandibles, mandoline, medaillon, medalists, medalling, medallion, medallist, mediaeval, mediately, medicable, medically, medicinal, medievals, melanized, melanoids, melodicas, metalised, metalized, metalloid, middleman, militated, misallied, miscalled, misdialed, mishandle, misleader, misleared, misplaced, misplayed, mispleads, misvalued, moralised, moralized, mutilated, nialamide, polyamide, reclaimed, simulated, treadmill, ultimated, unclaimed.

 

+4 letters: academical, acclimated, acrylamide, admissible, admittedly, alchemized, aldermanic, almandines, almandites, aluminized, amplidynes, amplitudes, animalized, animatedly, bedlamites, biomedical, bipedalism, bromeliads, calcimined, chlamydiae, collimated, complained, culminated, damselfish, decemviral, decimalize, declaimers, declaiming, delaminate, demoniacal, demoralize, dentaliums, derailment, dilemmatic, diplomates, disclaimed, disclaimer, dismalness, dismantled, dismantles, duodecimal, eliminated, emulsoidal, epidemical, epididymal, federalism, feudalisms, formalised, formalized, formidable, fulminated, germicidal, glamorised, glamorized, hemihedral, humiliated, imbalanced, imidazoles, impanelled, impleading, implicated, intermodal, madeleines, madrilenes, mailbombed, mainlander, maledicted, malingered, mandolines, manifolded, marbleised, marbleized, maxilliped, medaillons, medallions, medallists, mediaevals, medicinals, medievally, meliorated, meridional, metallized, metalloids, methodical, misaligned, misaltered, misapplied, misclaimed, misclassed, misdealing, misdialled, mishandled, mishandles, mislabeled, mislabored, misleaders, misleading, mislearned, mislocated, misplanned, misplanted, mispleaded, misrelated, modalities, modifiable, multiarmed, multigrade, multimedia, multipaned, mutualized, myelinated, nialamides, nonmedical, normalised, normalized, palindrome, pedimental, polyamides, premedical, proclaimed, psalmodies, remediable, remedially, rudimental, semifeudal, stimulated, sublimated, timberland, treadmills.

 

+5 letters: acrylamides, admiralties, aeromedical, ameliorated, amyloidoses, assimilated, automobiled, bipedalisms, blackmailed, calumniated, caramelised, caramelized, comedically, complicated, condimental, damselflies, decimalized, decimalizes, declamation, deformalize, deglamorize, delaminated, delaminates, deliveryman, demandingly, demiurgical, demonically, demoralized, demoralizer, demoralizes, derailments, detrimental, diametrical, dilatometer, dilatometry, dimensional, dimercaprol, diplomacies, disablement, disassemble, disassembly, disclaimers, disclimaxes, dissimilate, dissimulate, domiciliate, drillmaster, duodecimals, endemically, endometrial, endoplasmic, federalisms, flimflammed, glamourized, greenmailed, hexadecimal, illuminated, immediately, immedicable, immedicably, indomitable, intradermal, lamebrained, legerdemain, legitimated, maddeningly, mainlanders, maladaptive, maledicting, malediction, maledictory, mammillated, mandibulate, manipulated, maxillipeds, mediastinal, mediational, medicinable, medicinally, medicolegal, medievalism, medievalist, melodically, meridionals, metabolized, metalloidal, meteoroidal, midlatitude, militarised, militarized, mineralised, mineralized, misbalanced, mislabelled, mispleading, modularized, multibladed, multicoated, multiheaded, multimanned, multimedias, multitasked, musicalised, musicalized, nematicidal, nematocidal, overclaimed, palindromes, paramedical, pilgrimaged, polygamized, premedieval, quitclaimed, reimplanted, semidiurnal, simulcasted, spermicidal, streamlined, sulfonamide, thalidomide, thermalized, timberlands, tolbutamide, umbilicated, unamplified, unreclaimed.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Mailed


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

4D 61 69 6C 65 64

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    .-    ..    .-..    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01001101 01100001 01101001 01101100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#105 &#108 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0069 006C 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

476775787170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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