mail vs male

mail

Definitions

noun

  1. a conveyance that transports the letters and packages that are conveyed by the postal system
  2. (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings
  3. the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office
  4. any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
  5. the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service

verb

  1. send via the postal service
  2. cause to be directed or transmitted to another place

Examples

I have no great picture of her to link because I am out of town in San Francisco and all the pictures I have are the naked librarian Playboy centerfolds I got in email a few days back.

Email and Net abuse at work have become the number one reason why UK employees face the sack, according to a survey out today.

I'll forward any mail to your new address.

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male

Definitions

adjective

  1. being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation
  2. for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys
  3. characteristic of a man

noun

  1. a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies
  2. an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)

Examples

A great deal of the nudge-nudge wink-wink routine by the young upwardly mobile male executives was the usual response to her presence.

A couple of weeks ago, while glassing four female Meneliks bushbuck two hundred yards away feeding in a tiny clearing during a pouring rain, a nice male stepped into view.

One of the nastiest is the way in which male honour is seen as bound up with female behaviour so that any supposed compromise or scandal in what happens to women, even becoming a rape victim, justifies violence against them as well as against their abusers or seducers; hence the 'honour killings' of young girls that disfigure some societies even today.

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