MAIL

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Traducere în limba română

mail¹ I. substantiv

1. zale, za, platoşă, cuirasă;

clad in mail îmbrăcat în zale.

2. carapace (a crabului, broaştei ţestoase etc.).

3. (text.) ochi (de ţesătură, plasă etc.).

4. (înv.) pată.

mail¹ II. verb tranzitiv

1. a îmbrăca în za(le).

2. (fig.) (şi to mail up) a înveli, a înfăşura.

3. (cinegetică) a vopsi aripile (unui şoim).

4. (înv.) a păta, a mânji.

mail² I. substantiv

1. sac poştal / de scrisori.

2. poştă; (înv.) curier poştal;

by the first / earliest mail, by return of mail cu prima poştă, cu primul curier poştal;

the outward mail a) poşta pentru străinătate; b) poşta pentru provincie;

the inward mail a) poşta care soseşte din străinătate; b) poşta care vine din provincie.

3. poştaş, factor poştal.

4. (înv.) geantă; valiză.

mail² II. verb tranzitiv

a expedia (scrisori, colete) prin poştă.

mail³ substantiv

1. (scoţ.) impozit, dare, bir.

2. (ist.) monedă mică de argint din vremea lui Henric al V-lea.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

At the end of the fifth week the manuscript came back to him, by mail, without comment.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

It was a hard trip, with the mail behind them, and the heavy work wore them down.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

When we arrived before day at the inn where the mail stopped, which was not the inn where my friend the waiter lived, I was shown up to a nice little bedroom, with DOLPHIN painted on the door.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Then he caught himself up and added: "I ain't stoppin' long. I got to be pullin' north again. I go out on to-night's train. You see, I've got a mail contract with the government."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

"Girls, girls, do be quiet one minute! I must get this off by the early mail, and you drive me distracted with your worry," cried Mrs. March, crossing out the third spoiled sentence in her letter.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I just come down the Coast on one of the Pacific mail steamers.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

I was to go home next night; not by the mail, but by the heavy night-coach, which was called the Farmer, and was principally used by country-people travelling short intermediate distances upon the road.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Ruth returned his "Sea Lyrics" by mail.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

How the breaking-up day changed its place fast, at last, from the week after next to next week, this week, the day after tomorrow, tomorrow, today, tonight—when I was inside the Yarmouth mail, and going home.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He roused himself and began glancing through his mail.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

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