Что (кто) такое mail - определение
SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING DOCUMENTS AND OTHER SMALL PACKAGES
Postal system; Snail mail; Postage; Postal service; Postal Service; Postal mail; Snail-mail; Postal services; Paper mail; Land mail; P-mail; Snailmail; First class mail; First Class Mail; First Class mail; Mail delivery; First-class mail; Bypass mail; Recorded mail; Recorded delivery; Recorded post; Registered delivery; First Class post; 1st Class post; 🖅; 🖆; Post service; First-Class Mail; Mailing
![The first [[airmail]] flight in Germany, 1912.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R36070, Luftpost.jpg?width=200 "The first [[airmail]] flight in Germany, 1912.")
![Union with Greece]] to Egypt in 1914 showing numbered registration label](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CoverCrete1914.jpg?width=200 "Union with Greece]] to Egypt in 1914 showing numbered registration label")
![''Le Philateliste'' by [[François Barraud]] (1929).](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/François Barraud - Le Philatéliste.jpg?width=200 "''Le Philateliste'' by [[François Barraud]] (1929).")
![Many early post systems consisted of fixed courier routes. Here, a post house on a postal route in the 19th century [[Finland]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Houttakin postitalo.jpg?width=200 "Many early post systems consisted of fixed courier routes. Here, a post house on a postal route in the 19th century [[Finland]]")
!["The Steamboat" – mobile steaming equipment used by Czech [[StB]] for unsticking of envelopes during correspondence surveillance](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/IDET2007 StB steam envelope opener.jpg?width=200 "\"The Steamboat\" – mobile steaming equipment used by Czech [[StB]] for unsticking of envelopes during correspondence surveillance")
![First Class]] and Standard Mail delivery.)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mailboxes.jpg?width=200 "First Class]] and Standard Mail delivery.)")
![The [[Penny Black]], the world's first postage stamp](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Penny black.jpg?width=200 "The [[Penny Black]], the world's first postage stamp")
![[[Pillar boxes]] on the island of [[Madeira]], Portugal. (1st class mail in blue and 2nd class in red)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pillarboxes.jpg?width=200 "[[Pillar boxes]] on the island of [[Madeira]], Portugal. (1st class mail in blue and 2nd class in red)")
![An example of a main post office building in [[Kraków]], [[Poland]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Poczta Główna (Main post office) (9159136558).jpg?width=200 "An example of a main post office building in [[Kraków]], [[Poland]]")
![Delivery by bicycle in [[Germany]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Post-cycle-Cologne-508.jpg?width=200 "Delivery by bicycle in [[Germany]]")
![[[China]] 4-cent on 100-dollar silver overprint of 1949](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stamp China 1949 4c on 100 silver ovpt.jpg?width=200 "[[China]] 4-cent on 100-dollar silver overprint of 1949")
![This antique "letter-box" style U.S. mailbox is both on display and in use at the [[Smithsonian Institution Building]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/US mail letterbox.jpg?width=200 "This antique \"letter-box\" style U.S. mailbox is both on display and in use at the [[Smithsonian Institution Building]].")
Mail
·noun Rent; tribute.
II. Mail ·noun A bag; a wallet.
III. Mail ·vt To arm with mail.
IV. Mail ·noun A Spot.
V. Mail ·vt To Pinion.
VI. Mail ·noun Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.
VII. Mail ·noun A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, ·etc., may be carried.
VIII. Mail ·noun That which comes in the mail; letters, ·etc., received through the post office.
IX. Mail ·noun A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V.
X. Mail ·noun A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.
XI. Mail ·noun A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
XII. Mail ·noun Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, ·etc.
XIII. Mail ·vt To deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail; to Post; as, to mail a letter.
XIV. Mail ·noun The bag or bags with the letters, papers, papers, or other matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post office to another; the whole system of appliances used by government in the conveyance and delivery of mail matter.
mail
(mails, mailing, mailed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
The mail is the public service or system by which letters and parcels are collected and delivered.
Your check is in the mail...
The firm has offices in several large cities, but does most of its business by mail.
= post
N-SING: the N, also by N
2.
You can refer to letters and parcels that are delivered to you as mail.
There was no mail except the usual junk addressed to the occupier...
= post
N-UNCOUNT: also the N
3.
If you mail a letter or parcel to someone, you send it to them by putting it in a post box or taking it to a post office. (mainly AM; in BRIT, usually use post
)
)
Last year, he mailed the documents to French journalists...
He mailed me the contract...
The Government has already mailed some 18 million households with details of the public offer.
VERB: V n to n, V n n, V n with n, also V n
4.
To mail a message to someone means to send it to them by means of e-mail or a computer network.
...if a report must be electronically mailed to an office by 9 am the next day.
VERB: be V-ed prep, also V n
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Mail is also a noun.
If you have any problems then send me some mail.
N-UNCOUNT
5.
mail
<messaging> 1. electronic mail.
2. The Berkeley Unix program for composing and reading
electronic mail. It normally uses sendmail to handle
delivery.
Unix manual page: mail(1)
(1997-12-03)
Википедия
Mail
The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid-19th century, national postal systems have generally been established as a government monopoly, with a fee on the article prepaid. Proof of payment is usually in the form of an adhesive postage stamp, but a postage meter is also used for bulk mailing.
Postal authorities often have functions aside from transporting letters. In some countries, a postal, telegraph and telephone (PTT) service oversees the postal system, in addition to telephone and telegraph systems. Some countries' postal systems allow for savings accounts and handle applications for passports.
The Universal Postal Union (UPU), established in 1874, includes 192 member countries and sets the rules for international mail exchanges as a Specialized Agency of the United Nations.
Примеры произношения для mail
1. Our mail.
Without Their Permission _ Alexis Ohanian _ Talks at Google
2. e-mail.
The Creative Destruction of Medicine _ Eric Topol _ Talks at Google
3. Paper mail.
Zero Waste Home _ Bea Johnson _ Talks at Google
4. And then "The Daily Mail," with typical "Mail" gusto,
Into The Woods _ John Yorke _ Talks at Google
5. mail with lie bombs.
Stephen Colbert _ America Again - Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't _ Talks at Google
Примеры употребления для mail
1. "Royal Mail wants to send more junk mail because it makes them money." Junk mail is lucrative to the Royal Mail, which is losing about 240million a year on "stamped" mail while business mail is hugely profitable.
2. A spokesman for the Royal Mail said: "Only the Royal Mail collects the mail, delivers the mail six days a week right across the UK.
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4. Junk mail, described officially by Royal Mail as ‘unaddressed mail‘, is a rapidly growing part of the business.
5. Andy Frewin, a director of the postal watchdog Postwatch, said: "The big growth in business bulk mail is from marketing mail, or what most people call junk mail.