noun
Letters and packages that are sent or delivered.
I got some interesting mail today.
Often appears as...
- check the mail
- send the mail
verb
To send something to someone by using the postal service.
I need to mail this package to my friend.
Often appears as...
- mail a letter
- mail a package
noun
A system for sending messages electronically over the internet.
I received an important mail yesterday.
Often appears as...
- check your mail
- junk mail
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A type of armor made from connected metal rings.
The knight wore mail into battle.
Often appears as...
- chain mail
- mail shirt
noun
Letters and packages that are sent or delivered.
I got some interesting mail today.
Often appears as...
- check the mail
- send the mail
verb
To send something to someone by using the postal service.
I need to mail this package to my friend.
Often appears as...
- mail a letter
- mail a package
noun
A system for sending messages electronically over the internet.
I received an important mail yesterday.
Often appears as...
- check your mail
- junk mail
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A type of armor made from connected metal rings.
The knight wore mail into battle.
Often appears as...
- chain mail
- mail shirt
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Expect Delays
Mail delivery can be delayed due to holidays, weather, or errors.
My birthday card arrived a week late due to mail delays.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Item
Mail refers to actual, physical letters and packages.
She decorated the mail with stamps and stickers.
Pro Tip 3/3Mail vs Email
Mail usually means physical post, while email is digital.
Grandma prefers receiving mail to email.
Pro Tip 1/3Expect Delays
Mail delivery can be delayed due to holidays, weather, or errors.
My birthday card arrived a week late due to mail delays.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Item
Mail refers to actual, physical letters and packages.
She decorated the mail with stamps and stickers.
Pro Tip 3/3Mail vs Email
Mail usually means physical post, while email is digital.
Grandma prefers receiving mail to email.
Pro Tip 1/3Expect Delays
Mail delivery can be delayed due to holidays, weather, or errors.
My birthday card arrived a week late due to mail delays.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Item
Mail refers to actual, physical letters and packages.
She decorated the mail with stamps and stickers.
Pro Tip 3/3Mail vs Email
Mail usually means physical post, while email is digital.
Grandma prefers receiving mail to email.
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How one teenager...
These players weren't very friendly, they were all quite overpaid and they acted more like celebrities. In middle school, a friend introduced me to a new way to collect writing the players through the mail. In doing so, I would write a letter, send a self-addressed stamped envelope, and send a few baseball cards.
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Filming The Kangaroo...
they're not intimidated by people and they're not aggressive to people so it was a nice situation for being able to observe natural behavior without interfering with them at all we had both of our camera operators um filming the dominant mail and then we saw the rival mail appear into this arena the dominant well
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How the mysterious dark...
which is easily exchanged for real-world currencies and gives quite a high degree of anonymity to its users. But at the beginning of these sites, people noticed a flaw. Some of the unscrupulous dealers were running away with peoples' bitcoin before they'd mailed the drugs out.
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The surprising science...
number four like everybody else they said gee thanks doc that's great I can use a new print I'll take number three we explained we would have number three mailed to them we gathered up our materials and we went out of the room and counted to a half-hour back into the
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Stopping Pandemics, An...
next year dr fauci your leadership has not come without uh some stresses and frustrations personally you have talked about during the aids crisis how you got hate mail and during this crisis you have had death threats to the point that you've had to hire security
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Rajesh Rao: Computing a...
When this result was first published, it was highly controversial. There were people who raised a hue and cry, and these people were the ones who believed that the Indus script does not represent language. I even started to get some hate mail.
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Caring For A Sickly Baby...
four or five years and this year's we have to find a mail for her to pair her up to make a new year she's hungry huh do you want something so sh you will find a male from somewhere else in the world and hopefully pair them together exactly
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My life as an outsider PIPE...
unlike a dress that you can send by mail this was a dress I covered in iron filings and I buried it in the ground for several months and after I dug out the dress I felt that the dress actually acquired his own life and became what I
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Julian Assange: Why the...
to enact those legal protections. We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it -- which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do,
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BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...
the mail doesn't seem quite so skillful oh dear luckily she can put things right
Video examples
How one teenager...
These players weren't very friendly, they were all quite overpaid and they acted more like celebrities. In middle school, a friend introduced me to a new way to collect writing the players through the mail. In doing so, I would write a letter, send a self-addressed stamped envelope, and send a few baseball cards.
Video examples
Filming The Kangaroo...
they're not intimidated by people and they're not aggressive to people so it was a nice situation for being able to observe natural behavior without interfering with them at all we had both of our camera operators um filming the dominant mail and then we saw the rival mail appear into this arena the dominant well
Video examples
How the mysterious dark...
which is easily exchanged for real-world currencies and gives quite a high degree of anonymity to its users. But at the beginning of these sites, people noticed a flaw. Some of the unscrupulous dealers were running away with peoples' bitcoin before they'd mailed the drugs out.
Video examples
The surprising science...
number four like everybody else they said gee thanks doc that's great I can use a new print I'll take number three we explained we would have number three mailed to them we gathered up our materials and we went out of the room and counted to a half-hour back into the
Video examples
Stopping Pandemics, An...
next year dr fauci your leadership has not come without uh some stresses and frustrations personally you have talked about during the aids crisis how you got hate mail and during this crisis you have had death threats to the point that you've had to hire security
Video examples
Rajesh Rao: Computing a...
When this result was first published, it was highly controversial. There were people who raised a hue and cry, and these people were the ones who believed that the Indus script does not represent language. I even started to get some hate mail.
Video examples
Caring For A Sickly Baby...
four or five years and this year's we have to find a mail for her to pair her up to make a new year she's hungry huh do you want something so sh you will find a male from somewhere else in the world and hopefully pair them together exactly
Video examples
My life as an outsider PIPE...
unlike a dress that you can send by mail this was a dress I covered in iron filings and I buried it in the ground for several months and after I dug out the dress I felt that the dress actually acquired his own life and became what I
Video examples
Julian Assange: Why the...
to enact those legal protections. We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it -- which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do,
Video examples
BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...
the mail doesn't seem quite so skillful oh dear luckily she can put things right
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Quote examples
Bobby Heenan
American Wrestler
Everyone should have cancer one time - then you'd know that other things aren't important. The guy that gives you the finger at the stoplight don't mean nothing anymore. You come home and something's cold, or you didn't get something in the mail. Big deal. You want to get up every day and see your family and your friends.
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Kurt Cobain
American Singer
I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.
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C. C. H. Pounder
Guyanese Actress
Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful.
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Ruby Bridges
American Activist
We'd get these boxes of clothing in the mail, and my mom would say, 'What makes you think all this is for you? You've got a sister right behind you.' So then I realized, we're all in this together. We have to help each other.
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Christian McCaffrey
American Athlete
You get fan mail and you see the reaction when you write someone back. It's kind of shocking. You can make someone's day and be a positive influence on the world when you're in a position like that.
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Nikki Reed
American Actress
When I get hate mail, I get really down on myself, and I read it to my mom, and my mom is like, 'So what? Who cares? These people don't know you, so you can't take the praise or the hate to heart.
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Lane Kiffin
American Coach
A Tennessee fan mailed me things I signed for him because they said they don't want this trash in their house. So they mailed it back to me.
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Roy Clark
American Entertainer
All the mail that I got, half of it said, 'You looked exactly like my brother,' or, 'You look exactly like so-and-so.
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Miranda Raison
English Actress
I've had more fan mail from 'Doctor Who' than anything. People love the show so passionately.
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Adam Cohen
American Journalist
DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
Quote examples
Bobby Heenan
American Wrestler
Everyone should have cancer one time - then you'd know that other things aren't important. The guy that gives you the finger at the stoplight don't mean nothing anymore. You come home and something's cold, or you didn't get something in the mail. Big deal. You want to get up every day and see your family and your friends.
Quote examples
Kurt Cobain
American Singer
I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.
Quote examples
C. C. H. Pounder
Guyanese Actress
Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful.
Quote examples
Ruby Bridges
American Activist
We'd get these boxes of clothing in the mail, and my mom would say, 'What makes you think all this is for you? You've got a sister right behind you.' So then I realized, we're all in this together. We have to help each other.
Quote examples
Christian McCaffrey
American Athlete
You get fan mail and you see the reaction when you write someone back. It's kind of shocking. You can make someone's day and be a positive influence on the world when you're in a position like that.
Quote examples
Nikki Reed
American Actress
When I get hate mail, I get really down on myself, and I read it to my mom, and my mom is like, 'So what? Who cares? These people don't know you, so you can't take the praise or the hate to heart.
Quote examples
Lane Kiffin
American Coach
A Tennessee fan mailed me things I signed for him because they said they don't want this trash in their house. So they mailed it back to me.
Quote examples
Roy Clark
American Entertainer
All the mail that I got, half of it said, 'You looked exactly like my brother,' or, 'You look exactly like so-and-so.
Quote examples
Miranda Raison
English Actress
I've had more fan mail from 'Doctor Who' than anything. People love the show so passionately.
Quote examples
Adam Cohen
American Journalist
DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
Example 1 of 10
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