Email vs. Mail
Email and Mail Definitions
A system for sending and receiving messages electronically over a computer network.
Materials, such as letters and packages, handled in a postal system
The volume of mail increases around the holidays.
A message or messages sent or received by such a system.
Postal material for a specific person or organization
Could you pick up my mail at the office?.
To send (someone) an email
I'll email you when I know my schedule.
Material processed for distribution from a post office at a specified time
Delivered the morning mail around town.
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To send (a message) by email.
A postal system. Used with the, sometimes in the plural
Used the mail to send the supplies.
Advertisements sent through the mails.
(uncountable) A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually through a network.
Snail mail
He sent me his details via email.
The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.
Chiefly British A vehicle by which mail is transported.
(uncountable) A quantity of messages sent through an email system.
I am searching through my old email.
My inbox used to allow only 50 MB of email at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!
Mail or messages sent electronically; email.
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(countable) A message sent through an email system.
He sent me an email last week to remind me about the meeting.
I archive my old emails using a cloud-based service.
Flexible armor composed of small overlapping metal rings, loops of chain, or scales.
An email address.
What’s your email?
Don’t send personal messages to my work email.
The protective covering of certain animals, as the shell of a turtle.
(transitive) To send an email or emails to.
She emailed me last week, asking about the status of the project.
Rent, payment, or tribute.
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To send (something) through email.
I’ll email you the link.
He emailed the file out to everyone.
To send by a postal system
Mailed the letter yesterday.
(intransitive) To send, or compose and send, an email or emails.
Most teenagers seem to spend almost the whole day emailing and surfing the Web.
To send letters and other material by a postal system.
(computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in
To cover or armor with mail.
Communicate electronically on the computer;
She e-mailed me the good news
A bag or wallet.
A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
The material conveyed by the postal service.
Don't forget to pick up the mail on your way.
(dated) A stagecoach, train or ship that delivers such post.
The postal service or system in general.
He decided to send his declaration by mail.
The letters, parcels, etc. delivered to a particular address or person.
(uncountable) Electronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages.
A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
(uncountable) Armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together.
(nautical) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
A spot on a bird's feather; by extension, a spotted feather.
(historical) An old French coin worth half a denier.
A monetary payment or tribute.
Rent.
Tax.
(ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.
(ditransitive) To send by electronic mail.
Please mail me the spreadsheet by the end of the day.
(transitive) To contact (a person) by electronic mail.
I need to mail my tutor about the deadline.
(transitive) To arm with mail.
(transitive) To pinion.
A spot.
A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V.
Rent; tribute.
A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.
Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.
A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
We . . . strip the lobster of his scarlet mail.
A bag; a wallet.
The bag or bags with the letters, 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.
There is a mail come in to-day, with letters dated Hague.
That which comes in the mail; letters, etc., received through the post office.
A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
To arm with mail.
To pinion.
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.
The bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service
The system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office;
The mail handles billions of items every day
He works for the United States mail service
In England they call mail `the post'
A conveyance that transports mail
Any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered;
Your mail is on the table
Is there any post for me?
She was opening her post
(Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings
Send via the postal service;
I'll mail you the check tomorrow
Cause to be directed or transmitted to another place;
Send me your latest results
I'll mail you the paper when it's written
