Mailed vs. Mail — What's the Difference?

Covered with or made of plates of mail

The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems.

Having a hard covering of scales, spines, or horny plate, as an armadillo or a lobster.

Letters and parcels sent by post

Simple past tense and past participle of mail

Armour made of metal rings or plates joined together flexibly

Simple past tense and past participle of mail

Send (a letter or parcel) by post

Armoured in, protected by, or made of mail.

Clothe or cover with mail

(rare) Resembling the scales of armor.

Materials, such as letters and packages, handled in a postal system

Protected by an external coat, or covering, of scales or plates.

Postal material for a specific person or organization

Spotted; speckled.

Material processed for distribution from a post office at a specified time

Wearing protective mail

A postal system. Used with the, sometimes in the plural

Chiefly British A vehicle by which mail is transported.

Mail or messages sent electronically; email.

Flexible armor composed of small overlapping metal rings, loops of chain, or scales.

The protective covering of certain animals, as the shell of a turtle.

Rent, payment, or tribute.

To send by a postal system

To send letters and other material by a postal system.

To cover or armor with mail.

A bag or wallet.

A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.

The material conveyed by the postal service.

(dated) A stagecoach, train or ship that delivers such post.

The postal service or system in general.

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.

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

(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.

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.

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;

A conveyance that transports mail

Any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered;

(Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings

Send via the postal service;

Cause to be directed or transmitted to another place;