mailbox
gb/mˈeɪlbˌɑks/ us/mˈeɪlbˌɑks/
A2
Inggeris
~ 8600
Makna
0 makna
Kata nama
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.
Corak penggunaan:
put [a letter] in the mailbox
Kesilapan biasa:
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.
Sinonim
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.)
Kolokasi
check the mailbox
|open the mailbox
|at the mailbox
|a full mailbox
|put a letter in the mailbox
Tema
daily life
|home
|communication
|daily_life
|core_vocabulary
Contoh
- 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.
Contoh untuk pelajar
- 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.
Kata nama
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.
Corak penggunaan:
drop [a letter] in the mailbox
Kesilapan biasa:
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.
Sinonim
postbox (More common in British English; describes the same public box used to send mail.)
Kolokasi
public mailbox
|street mailbox
|corner mailbox
|blue mailbox
|outside mailbox
Tema
daily life
|travel
|communication
|daily_life
|core_vocabulary
Contoh
- 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.
Contoh untuk pelajar
- 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.
Kata nama
B1
entity
3
place where email is stored
The place in an email system where your email messages are saved.
Corak penggunaan:
delete [messages] from [your] mailbox
Kesilapan biasa:
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").
Sinonim
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.)
Kolokasi
email mailbox
|shared mailbox
|mailbox size
|mailbox is full
|access your mailbox
Tema
technology
|computing
|communication
|core_vocabulary
Contoh
- 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.
Contoh untuk pelajar
- 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.
Tatabahasa
Bentuk kamus
mailbox
IPA
GB/mˈeɪlbˌɑks/
US/mˈeɪlbˌɑks/
Suku kata dan tekanan
mail - box (2 suku kata)
Stress on 1st syllable (mail)
Bentuk kata
Noun
- Base: mailbox
- Plural: mailboxes
Keluarga kata
Ungkapan
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.
Contoh
- 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.
Contoh
- 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.