mail

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /meɪl/    美 /meɪl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bag or wallet. countable,regional,uncountable
    — What, loo, man, see here of dyce a bale; / A brydelynge caste for that is in thy male!
  2. An old French coin worth half a denier. historical
  3. Armour consisting of metal rings linked together. uncountable,usually
    — The knight is laid in his mail, only the hands and face being bare.
  4. A bag containing letters to be delivered by post. countable,uncountable
  5. A monetary payment or tribute. Scotland
  6. Armour consisting of small plates linked together. broadly,uncountable,usually
  7. The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service. countable,uncountable
    — Meronym: mailpiece
  8. Rent. Scotland
  9. A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage. uncountable,usually
  10. Tax. Scotland
  11. Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc. uncountable,usually
    — We […] strip the lobster of his scarlet mail.
  12. The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.; The letters, parcels, etc. delivered to a particular address or person. US,uncountable
    — It should be in your mail today, unless the post office lost it!
  13. A spot on a bird's feather; by extension, a spotted feather. obsolete,rare,uncountable,usually
    — [T]he moorish-fly: made with the body of duskish wool; and the wings made of the blackish mail of the drake.
  14. A stagecoach, train or ship that delivers such post. countable,dated,uncountable
    — All trains stop at all stations, with the exception of a few "local" stations near Mombasa and an odd flag stop or two usually missed by the mails.
  15. The postal service or system in general. countable,uncountable
    — He decided to send his declaration by mail.
  16. Electronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages. uncountable
    — Yahoo Mail has been providing mail service since 1997.
  17. Email messages conceived in bulk (as with the analogous sense of physical mail). uncountable
    — You've got mail [old audio clip announcing new email in the 1990s-2000s]
  18. An email message. India,countable,especially
    — Please look through those mails and confirm whether you received the one about scheduling.
  19. A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried. countable,uncountable
    — “Fetch me the little private mail with the padlocks, that I recommended to your particular charge — d'ye hear?”
动词 v.
  1. To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail. ditransitive
  2. To arm with mail. transitive
  3. To send by electronic mail. ditransitive
    — Please mail me the spreadsheet by the end of the day.
  4. To pinion. transitive
  5. To contact (a person) by electronic mail. transitive
    — I need to mail my tutor about the deadline.

词形变化

mails plural mails present,singular,third-person mailing participle,present mailed participle,past mailed past mails plural maille alternative mails present,singular,third-person mailing participle,present mailed participle,past mailed past maille alternative mails plural maile alternative maill alternative maille alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
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相关词
mailed

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *malhō
Frankish *malhabor.
Medieval Latin malader.
Anglo-Norman malebor.
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Old French malebor.
Middle English male
English mail
From Middle English male, from Anglo-Norman male, Old French male (“bag, wallet”), from Frankish *malha (“bag”), from Proto-Germanic *malhō (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *molko- (“leather pouch”). Compare Dutch maal.
词源 2
From Middle English mayle (“mail armor”), borrowed from Old French maille (“loop, stitch”), from Vulgar Latin *macla, from Latin macula (“blemish, mesh”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *smh₁-tleh₂, from *smeh₁- (“smear, rub”). Compare maillot.
词源 3
From Middle English mal, male from Old English māl (“speech, contract, agreement”) from Old Norse mál (“agreement, speech, lawsuit”). Akin to Old English mǣl (“speech”). Related to Old English mǣlan (mell), maþelian (“to speak out, declare”). From *maþlą (“meeting-place”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to encounter, come”), if so, related to meet, and moot.
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