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Definition: Mailed |
MailedAdjective1. 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: MailedSynonym: mail-clad (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Mailed |
| English words defined with "mailed": absentee ballot ♦ bill, broadsheet, broadside ♦ circular ♦ flier, flyer, form letter ♦ Gurnet ♦ handbill ♦ letter box, letter carrier, letter opener ♦ mail bag, mail out, Mailer, mailing list ♦ paperknife, Post bill ♦ throwaway. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mailed": American Community Survey ♦ EAMM, ENERGY-CONSERVATION REPRESENTATIVE ♦ laboratory assistant ♦ MAIL CENSOR, maritime/military vessel enumeration, MRC ♦ passbook account, Perfection, PMR ♦ SAMPLE CLERK, PAPER, Service Centers, statement savings ♦ William. (references) |
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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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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 58.33% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 21.43% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 19.05% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.19% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 84 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "mailed": E-mailed. | |
| 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 |
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. | |
| 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. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "mailed": airmailed, blackmailed, camailed, emailed, greenmailed, remailed. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mailed" (pronounced mā"ld) |
| 3 | -ā" l d | assailed, 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. | ||
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. 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 69 6C 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .. .-.. . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101001 01101100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a i l e d |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)476775787170 |
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