Word Finder - mail

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A bag or wallet.

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A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.

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The material conveyed by the postal service.

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Don't forget to pick up the mail on your way.

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A stagecoach, train or ship that delivers such post.

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The postal service or system in general.

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He decided to send his declaration by mail.

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The letters, parcels, etc. delivered to a particular address or person.

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Electronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages.

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A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.

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(ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.

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(ditransitive) To send by electronic mail.

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Please mail me the spreadsheet by the end of the day.

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To contact (a person) by electronic mail.

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I need to mail my tutor about the deadline.

All my mail goes to a post office box.

You opened my mail?

Alex didn't answer and it went to his voice mail, so she left a message.

The worst of it was when I got that adoption form in the mail today.

Truth be known, he felt a small measure of relief, at least until he opened the mail to a flurry of bills.

I got this money in the mail.

My party invitation must have been lost in the mail.

I decided to talk to you this weekend, but I guess Mary found the form and took it upon herself to mail it to you.

Unfortunately, the call went to voice mail.

They will wait for a week or so before making you an offer and then even wait to mail you a check if you accept the offer.

Unable to outmaneuver death, she could at least take out her grief and anger on a poor little piece of mail.

No, I had a dropped call from her earlier, but when I called back it went straight to voice mail.

The overland mail route from England to India by way of Suez was opened in 1837.

Brazil is a member of the Postal Union, and like Argentina exacts higher nominal rates of postage upon outgoing mail than those agreed upon to cover the depreciation in her own currency.

They disdained the use of helmets and coats of mail, and protected themselves only with, shields.

A noteworthy peculiarity in the foreign mail service is that an extra charge of 2 cents for each letter and 1 cent for each post-card is collected when they are sent across the isthmus of Panama.

He visited nearly every post office in the colonies and increased the mail service between New York and Philadelphia from once to three times a week in summer, and from twice a month to once a week in winter.

There is an overland mail service by native runners.

By Dominic Prince, Daily Mail World Cup mania is about to have football fanatics glued to the TV.

I received another paper and a table of signs by return mail, and I set to work to learn the notation.

Steamers of several lines call regularly, and there is a daily mail to Syracuse.

She has often gone with me to the post-office to mail letters, and I suppose I have repeated to her things I wrote to you.

Helen wrote a little letter, and, enclosing the manuscript, forwarded both by mail to Mr. Anagnos for his birthday.

Jeffrey Byrne asked about Randy's ball game and inquired about the mail.

Among the other manufactories are flouring and grist mills, planing mills, foundries, and factories for making agricultural implements, United States mail boxes, furniture, pianos, organs, automobiles, toys and electrical supplies.

Most of those studies of home-life in England, which formed so highly popular a section of Tennyson's work - such as "The Gardener's Daughter," "Walking to the Mail," and "The Lord of Burleigh" - were now first issued, and, in what we have grown to consider a much higher order, "Locksley Hall," "Ulysses," and "Sir Galahad."

In 1905, exclusive of passenger and mail boats, there entered the port 848 vessels of 312,477 tons and cleared 857 of 305,284 tons, these being engaged in the general carrying trade of the port.

The junction took place at 1 P.M., and as the sea was too heavy for boats, the mail was floated to the " Good Hope."

Several lines of steamers - chiefly British and German - maintain regular communication with Europe, the British mail boats taking sixteen days on the journey.

The principal passenger steamers sailing from the port are those of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company for the West Indies and the Pacific (via Panama) and for Brazil and the River Plate, &c., and the Union-Castle line for the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, East Africa, &c., both of which companies have their headquarters here.

Their arms comprise two short swords, a longer spear, a round shield, and they sometimes wear a coat of mail; a curious feature is their tactics of fighting in a circle of protecting shields.

There are well-kept high-roads connecting all the towns,and a government service of mail carts to places not on the railway.

Its subscribers were found throughout all quarters of the northern half of the Union from Maine to Oregon, large packages going to remote districts beyond the Mississippi or Missouri, whose only connexion with the outside world was through a weekly or semi-weekly mail.

The port has assumed first-class importance, mail steamers calling vL23 d regularly as well as men-of-war and the mercantile marine of all nations; and it is now one of the finest artificial harbours in the world.

Scranton is the see of a Roman Catholic bishop, has a good public school system, and is the seat of the International Correspondence Schools (1891), which give instruction by mail in the trades and professions to large numbers of students; Mt.

The direct route to Dublin from London and other parts of England is by the Holyhead route, controlled by the London & North Western railway with steamers to the port of Dublin itself, while the company also works in conjunction with the mail steamers of the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company to the outlying port of Kingstown, 7 m.

On the southern side the ports of San Jose, Champerico and Ocos are visited by the Pacific mail steamers, by the vessels of a Hamburg company and by those of the South American (Chilean) and the Pacific Steam Navigation Companies.

The navy department has charge of the dockyards and vessels of war; and the post office department directs the postal system, including the railway mail service.

The uniform is a complete suit of mail, with a helmet, from which leather curtains fall over the shoulders.

It has an excellent harbour, Port Kennedy, and is a port of call for mail steamers and the centre of the beche-de-mer and pearl fisheries of the Torres Strait.

A weekly service between Constantza and Constantinople is conducted by state-owned steamers, including the fast mail and passenger boats in connexion with the Ostend and Orient expresses.

The nearest railway stations are Govilon (5 m.) and Gilwern (4 m.) on the London & North-Western railway, but a mail and passenger motor service running between Abergavenny and Brecon passes through the town.

Each of the larger islands has one or more ports which a local steamboat serves regularly, and Honolulu has the regular service of seven trans-Pacific lines (the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., the Canadian-Australian Steamship Co., the Matson Navigation Co., the Oceanic Steamship Co., the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., the Mexican Oriental and the Toyo Kisen Kaisha); it is a midway station for vessels between the United States (mainland) and Australia and Southern Asia.

It is clear from literary evidence that the helmet (helm) and coat of chain mail (byrne) were also in common use.

The arms required were probably a sword, helmet, coat of mail and one or two spears and shields.

Swords, helmets and coats of mail, he says, were seldom to be seen; in general they were armed only with huge shields, unwieldy spears and darts.

A cable sent to India in the evening may bring a reply next morning, and in these days of rapid cotton fluctuations mail advices are confined mainly to general discussion, hypothetical inquiry, advice, admonition and complaint.

Later he introduced the " zone system," whereby postage on second-class mail was charged according to distance.

He was interested in extending the parcel post, and worked for the promotion of aerial mail service.

Among the national mail steamship services are the lines to the East and West Indies, Africa and the United States.