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A2 CET-4 Oxf 3000 初中 FREQ #2173 ★★★☆☆

n. 邮件, 邮政, 邮递, 盔甲 vt. 邮寄, 给...穿盔甲 [计] 邮件

发音

US /meɪl/
UK /meɪl/
IN /mel/
其它 /mel/
IN /mɛj(ɪ)l/
其它 /mɛj(ɪ)l/

词形变化

mails 复数 mails 三单 mailing 现在分词 mailed 过去式 mailed 过去分词

别名

maille maile maill

释义与例句

n. A2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    A bag or wallet.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.

    可数 不可数

    Meronym: mailpiece

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

    1823, The stranger in Liverpool; or, An historical and descriptive view of the town of Liverpool and its environs, Seventh Edition, T. Kaye, page 96, The following are the hours at which the letter-box of this office is closed for making up the several mails, and the hours at which each mail is despatched: ¶ […]

    1887, John Houston Merrill (editor), The American and English Encyclopædia of Law, Volume I, Edward Thompson, p.121, If he retains the account, and permits several mails to pass without objecting to it, he will be held to have admitted its correctness.

  4. 4.

    The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.

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

    邮件

    美国 不可数 可数

    It should be in your mail today, unless the post office lost it!

  5. 5.

    A stagecoach, train or ship that delivers such post.

    可数 过时 不可数
  6. 6.

    The postal service or system in general.

    邮件

    邮政

    可数 不可数

    He decided to send his declaration by mail.

  7. 7.

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

    不可数 可数

    Yahoo Mail has been providing mail service since 1997.

  8. 8.

    Email messages conceived in bulk (as with the analogous sense of physical mail).

    不可数 可数

    You've got mail [old audio clip announcing new email in the 1990s-2000s]

  9. 9.

    An email message.

    印度 可数 不可数

    Please look through those mails and confirm whether you received the one about scheduling.

  10. 10.

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

    可数 不可数
  11. 1.

    Armour consisting of metal rings linked together.

    锁子甲

    不可数
  12. 2.

    Armour consisting of small plates linked together.

    不可数 媒体 引申义
  13. 3.

    A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.

    不可数 航海 交通
  14. 4.

    Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.

    不可数
  15. 5.

    A spot on a bird's feather; by extension, a spotted feather.

    废旧 罕用 不可数
  16. 1.

    An old French coin worth half a denier.

    历史
  17. 2.

    A monetary payment or tribute.

    苏格兰
  18. 3.

    Rent.

    苏格兰
  19. 4.

    Tax.

    苏格兰
v. A2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

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

    双及物
  2. 2.

    To send by electronic mail.

    双及物

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

  3. 3.

    To contact (a person) by electronic mail.

    及物

    I need to mail my tutor about the deadline.

  4. 1.

    To arm with mail.

    及物
  5. 2.

    To pinion.

    及物

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词源

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.

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