[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/mail/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [M](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/m/) / mail # mail noun (mail); verb (mail, mails, mailed, mailing) «mail» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. Mail is the letters and parcels sent by post. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mail/#m1) 2. Mail is the system that carries them: send it by mail. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mail/#m2) 3. To mail something is to send it by post. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mail/#m3) 4. Mail is short for email. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mail/#m4) 5. Mail (or chain mail) is armour made of small metal rings, worn by knights. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mail/#m5) ### In the lessons In maths mail is items counted, sent or delivered: per day × days, or each × price of a stamp. Mailing takes the items away from the sender. In everyday life: checking the mail, a mailbox, junk mail, mailing a birthday card to Grandma. In safety: never open mail or emails from strangers that ask for passwords. ### Examples - She mailed 12 cards. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mail/#x1) - The mail carrier delivers 300 letters a day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mail/#x2) - Each stamp for the mail costs 1 dollar. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mail/#x3) - How many letters in a week? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mail/#x4) - Is there any mail for me today? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mail/#x5) - I mailed a postcard from the beach. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mail/#x6) - Lots of the mail was junk mail. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mail/#x7) - Check your mail for the class newsletter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mail/#x8) - The knight wore a shirt of chain mail. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mail/#x9) - "Tan-ta-ra-ra, tan-ta-ra-ra," sounded the horn, and the mail-coach came lumbering up. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mail/#x10) ### Note Uncountable: «some mail», «a lot of mail» (not «a mail»); for one item say «a letter» or «a parcel». «Mail» is common in the USA and Canada; «post» in the UK, Ireland and Australia. Homophone: «male» (a boy or man). Maths trap: mailing takes the items away from the sender. ## In Jewish tradition It means a coat or robe with a woven opening, like armour, for the neck of the priest's robe. **Interpretation.** Tradition sees the strong binding around the neck hole of the priest's robe as a sign of care and holiness in the priestly clothes. ### Examples - and the hole of the robe in the midst thereof, as the hole of a coat of mail, with a binding round about the hole of it, that it should not be rent. (Torah EXO.39.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mail/#x1) - Mailer, Efiii/niphisclie fMiikinalei' aiis Ara/iieii, Vienna 18S9, p. 19. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mail/#x2) - Harness the horses, and mount, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail. (Prophets JER.46.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mail/#x3) - And Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging. (Writings 2CH.26.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mail/#x4) - And Saul clad David with his apparel, and he put a helmet of brass upon his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail. (Prophets 1SA.17.38, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mail/#x5) ### Note Uncountable: «some mail», «a lot of mail» (not «a mail»); for one item say «a letter» or «a parcel». «Mail» is common in the USA and Canada; «post» in the UK, Ireland and Australia. Homophone: «male» (a boy or man). Maths trap: mailing takes the items away from the sender. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «mail» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mail/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«mail» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/mail.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «mail» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mail/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«mail» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/mail.html) on Mova free.