mailとは

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語源 1

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.

名詞

mail (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 mails)

1. (now regional) A bag or wallet. [from 13^thc.]
   • 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:

     What, loo, man, see here of dyce a bale; / A brydelynge caste for that is in thy male!

2. A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
3. The material conveyed by the postal service. [from 17^thc.]

   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.

   • 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, OCLC 5661828:

     There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.

4. (dated) A stagecoach, train or ship that delivers such post.
   • 1962 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: North Eastern Region”, in Modern Railways, pages 422, 425:

     On the morning after the one-day strike, October 4, one of the Type 4s on crew-training, No. D169, was appropriated to head the 3 a.m. mail to Hull, as no steam locomotive had been lit up and the usual Hull Type 3 was not available; [...].

5. The postal service or system in general. [from 17^thc.]

   Synonym: (英国用法, Ireland) post

   He decided to send his declaration by mail.

6. (chiefly US, uncountable) The letters, parcels, etc. delivered to a particular address or person. [from 19^thc.]
7. (uncountable) Electronic mail, e-mail: a computer network–based service for sending, storing, and forwarding electronic messages. [from 20^thc.]
8. A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
   • 1819, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 277985465:

     “Fetch me the little private mail with the padlocks, that I recommended to your particular charge — d'ye hear?”

使用する際の注意点

In the United States, mails (plural) can mean "the postal system".

派生語

動詞

mail (三人称単数 現在形 mails, 現在分詞 mailing, 過去形および過去分詞形 mailed)

2. (ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail.
3. (ditransitive) To send by electronic mail.

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

   • 1983, "Donn Seeley", Source for 'Grab' (on newsgroup net.unix-wizards)

     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.

   • 1998, "Michael Tomsett", Re: Multiple postings? (on newsgroup alt.music.manics)

     Since .mp3's are so big (well for me with a 33.6kp/s connection they are anyway) maybe you should offer on your site to mail the file to people who want it, and have them request it, thus saving your web space, your upload time and their download time […]

   • 2003, "Chrissy", Re: Send mail with attachment (on newsgroup microsoft.public.excel.programming)

     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.

4. (transitive) To contact (a person) by electronic mail.

   I need to mail my tutor about the deadline.

   • 2000, "Carlton Alton Deltree", Whoever did this sucks... (on newsgroup alt.comp.virus)

     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.

   • 2002, Jessica Mann, The voice from the grave, page 189:

     'Yes, at Quantico. She was so excited by it, she sent all those emails, you remember I told you about it -' 'Yes, she mailed me from there too.'

   • 2011, Rose Budworth-Levine, Intimate Encounters, page 41:

     He mailed me and said he had managed to hack into my email accounts.

同意語

• (send through the mail): post

派生語

派生した語

• Thai: เมล์ (mee)

語源 2

From Middle English maille (“mail armor”), borrowed from Old French maille (“loop, stitch”), from Vulgar Latin *macla, from Latin macula (“blemish, mesh”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *smh₁-tleh₂, from *smeh₁- (“smear, rub”).

別の表記

• maille

名詞

mail (usually uncountable, 複数形 mails)

Mail.

1. (uncountable) Armour consisting of metal rings or plates linked together.
2. (nautical) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
3. Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
   • 1716, John Gay, Epistle to the Earl of Burlington

     We […] strip the lobster of his scarlet mail.

   • 1954 July 29, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “A Journey in the Dark”, in The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published September 1973, →ISBN, page 412:

     There beryl, pearl, and opal pale, / And metal wrought like fishes' mail, / Buckler and corslet, axe and sword, / And shining spears were laid in hoard.

4. (obsolete, rare) A spot on a bird's feather; by extension, a spotted feather.
   • 1676, Izaak Walton, “[The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation: Part I […].] Fovrth Day.”, in Richard Le Gallienne, editor, The Compleat Angler, 5th edition, London; New York, N.Y.: John Lane, The Bodley Head, published 1897, OCLC 504457631, page 116:

     [T]he moorish-fly: made with the body of duskish wool; and the wings made of the blackish mail of the drake.

派生語

関連する語

• mailed

動詞

mail (三人称単数 現在形 mails, 現在分詞 mailing, 過去形および過去分詞形 mailed)

1. (transitive) To arm with mail.
2. (transitive) To pinion.

語源 3

From Middle English mal, male from 古期英語 māl (“speech, contract, agreement”) from Old Norse mál (“agreement, speech, lawsuit”). Akin to 古期英語 mǣl (“speech”). Related to 古期英語 mǣlan (mell), maþelian (“to speak out, declare”). From *maþlą (“meeting-place”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to encounter, come”), if so related to meet, and moot.

別の表記

• maile, maill, maille

名詞

mail (複数形 mails)

1. (historical) An old French coin worth half a denier.
2. (chiefly Scotland) A monetary payment or tribute.
3. (chiefly Scotland) Rent.
4. (chiefly Scotland) Tax.

派生語

アナグラム

• Alim, Liam, Lima, Mali, Mila, alim, lima, mali