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1.A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
2.The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.
- Don't forget to pick up the mail on your way.
- It should be in your mail today, unless the post office lost it!
- The transfer by tender of some 1,300 mail bags was effected smartly, and the "Ocean Mails Special" train was ready at 9.19 a.m.
3.The postal service or system in general.
- He decided to send his declaration by mail.
4.Electronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages.
- Yahoo Mail has been providing mail service since 1997.

1.To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.
2.To send by electronic mail.
- Please mail me the spreadsheet by the end of the day.
- There has been a crackdown on non-ARPA use of a local ARPA gateway, so I am reluctant to attempt to mail the file to ARPA sites.
- If you mail an attachment from one mail client then it does not matter if the receiver uses a different mail client. The mail you send should be able to be read from their mail client.
3.To contact (a person) by electronic mail.
- I need to mail my tutor about the deadline.
- He mailed me and said he had managed to hack into my email accounts.
- I was horrified but my data was OK. Then, it saw it open my e-mail package and start to mail my friends. I turned the power off.
4.To arm with mail.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *molko-der.?

Thracianbor.?

Proto-Germanic *malhō

Frankish *malhabor.

Medieval Latin malader.

Anglo-Norman malebor.

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Old French malebor.

Middle English male

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