mailbox
gb/mˈeɪlbˌɑks/ us/mˈeɪlbˌɑks/
A2
Inglese
~ 8600
Accezioni
0 accezioni
Sostantivo
A2
entity
1
private box for receiving mail
A box at your house, building, or work where the mail person puts your letters and other mail.
Schema d'uso:
put [a letter] in the mailbox
Errore comune:
Learners sometimes confuse a physical mailbox with an email inbox and say things like "I sent you a letter to your mailbox" when they mean email. Use "mailbox" mainly for the physical box for paper mail, and "inbox" or "email" for electronic messages. In British English, "letterbox" or "postbox" is more common for the physical object.
Sinonimi
letterbox (Common in British English; often a slot in a door rather than a separate box, but used for the same purpose of receiving mail.)
Collocazioni
check the mailbox
|open the mailbox
|at the mailbox
|a full mailbox
|put a letter in the mailbox
Temi
daily life
|home
|communication
|daily_life
|core_vocabulary
Esempi
- I check the mailbox every afternoon when I get home from work.
- The package was too big to fit in our small mailbox.
- She ran to the mailbox to see if her acceptance letter had arrived.
- The landlord installs a separate mailbox for each apartment in the lobby.
- Someone forgot to close the mailbox, and all the mail got wet in the rain.
Esempi per chi studia
- The mailman put a letter in our mailbox.
- I walked to the street to open the mailbox.
- There is a big black mailbox in front of my house.
- Please leave the keys in my mailbox.
- Every morning, my father reads the mail from the mailbox.
Sostantivo
A2
entity
2
public box for posting mail
A public box, often on a street, where you put letters so the post office can collect and send them.
Schema d'uso:
drop [a letter] in the mailbox
Errore comune:
Learners may not realize that in some countries (like the US) "mailbox" can mean both the private box at your home and the public box on the street. In British English, people usually say "postbox" or "pillar box" for the public box, and "letterbox" for the slot in a door.
Sinonimi
postbox (More common in British English; describes the same public box used to send mail.)
Collocazioni
public mailbox
|street mailbox
|corner mailbox
|blue mailbox
|outside mailbox
Temi
daily life
|travel
|communication
|daily_life
|core_vocabulary
Esempi
- You can drop the application in the blue mailbox on the corner.
- The last pickup from this mailbox is at 5 p.m.
- She walked two blocks to find a public mailbox for her birthday cards.
- The mailbox outside the post office was overflowing after the holiday weekend.
- They reported a broken lock on the street mailbox to the postal service.
Esempi per chi studia
- I put the letter in the mailbox near my bus stop.
- There is a red mailbox in front of the post office.
- He ran to the mailbox before the last pickup.
- Please find a mailbox and send this card.
- The mailbox on this street is very old.
Sostantivo
B1
entity
3
place where email is stored
The place in an email system where your email messages are saved.
Schema d'uso:
delete [messages] from [your] mailbox
Errore comune:
Learners sometimes think "mailbox" and "inbox" are always the same. In everyday speech, people say "check your inbox" more often. "Mailbox" is more common in technical messages, like system warnings about storage (for example, "Your mailbox is full").
Sinonimi
inbox (Often refers specifically to the main folder for new messages; "mailbox" can be a more general technical term for the whole email storage for a user.)
Collocazioni
email mailbox
|shared mailbox
|mailbox size
|mailbox is full
|access your mailbox
Temi
technology
|computing
|communication
|core_vocabulary
Esempi
- Your mailbox is almost full; please delete some messages.
- You can access your work mailbox from any computer with an internet connection.
- The IT department increased his mailbox size to 10 gigabytes.
- All support requests are sent to a shared mailbox that the whole team can see.
- The system automatically archives messages when your mailbox reaches its storage limit.
Esempi per chi studia
- My email mailbox is full of old messages.
- I check my mailbox every morning at work.
- Please send the file to the team mailbox.
- She cannot get new email because her mailbox is full.
- You can open your mailbox on your phone.
Grammatica
Forma base
mailbox
IPA
GB/mˈeɪlbˌɑks/
US/mˈeɪlbˌɑks/
Sillabe e accento
mail - box (2 sillabe)
Stress on 1st syllable (mail)
Forme flesse
Noun
- Base: mailbox
- Plural: mailboxes
Famiglia di parole
Espressioni
mailbox money
1/mˈeɪlbˌɑks mˈʌni/
idiom
informal
passive income from royalties
Money that you keep getting again and again, like from songs, books, or rent, even when you are not working on them anymore.
Esempi
- The songwriter still gets mailbox money from a hit she wrote twenty years ago.
- He invested in rental properties so he could live off mailbox money in retirement.
- Actors often dream of steady mailbox money from long-running TV shows.
mailbox rule
1/mˈeɪlbˌɑks ɹˈul/
fixed phrase
technical
legal rule about mailed acceptances
In contract law, the idea that when you accept an offer by sending a letter, the contract starts when you mail the letter, not when the other person gets it.
Esempi
- Under the mailbox rule, her acceptance became effective as soon as she mailed the signed contract.
- Law students often struggle with how the mailbox rule applies to email and other modern forms of communication.
- The court decided that the mailbox rule did not apply because the offer required acceptance by fax.