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Definition: Mailing |
MailingNoun1. Mail sent by a sender at one time; "the candidate sent out three large mailings". 2. The transmission of a letter; "the postmark indicates the time of mailing". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mailing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
Synonym: MailingSynonym: posting (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Mailing |
| English words defined with "mailing": addressing machine, Addressograph ♦ box-number ♦ frank ♦ handling charge, handling cost ♦ Packet day, postmark. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mailing": blanket mailing. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mailing" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (mailing), Spanish (mailing). |
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![]() | What every husband knows. The perfect letter mailing technique, a wife's ideal of ... Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Dallas, Texas. Mailing room at the Dallas Morning News. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Poughkeepsie New Yorker Building, Poughkeepsie, New York. Mailing conveyor. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Suffolk County Federal Savings, Babylon, Long Island, New York. Mailing room. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Mailing division, U.S. Post Office, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | We maintain a 300-member mailing list that is used to notify the cancer community about FDA advisory committee meetings, open public hearings or seminars on cancer research or policy. (references) | |
Business | Department stores advertise through mailing campaigns to their customers. (references) | |
The magazine offers advertising opportunities and sells mailing lists to dental companies. (references) | ||
The resulting database is constantly updated, and can be used to produce disks, mailing lists and labels in any format required. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Ukraine | Restrictions by the Communications Ministry on the mailing of scientific documents also have caused concern. (references) |
China | The authorities do not consider persons who receive dissident e-mail publications responsible for having gotten onto a mailing list, but forwarding those messages to others is illegal. (references) | |
Economic History | Kiribati | Mailing address: P.O. Box 1379, Majuro, MH 96960-1379. Tel: 692-247-4011. (references) |
Trade | Argentina | For more information and to get on their mailing list, log on to www.exim.gov to fill out an information form. (references) |
Brazil | Such products may include: used products in general, products that enjoy import tariff reductions, imports that do not involve payment from importer to the exporter -- e.g., samples, donations, temporary admission, psychotherapeutic drugs, products for human or veterinary research; weapons and related products, radioactive products and rare earth metal compounds, crude oil, oil derivatives or other petroleum derivatives, anti-hemophilic serum, medications with plasma and human blood, products that may be harmful to the environment -- e.g., CFC, mailing machines, stamp selling machines, airplanes, etc. (references) | |
Travel | Greece | Mailing Greek currency, foreign exchange, or checks abroad is forbidden. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | In the mailing of a tariff bill the prime motive is taxation and the securing thereby of a revenue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Mailing" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 56.59% of the time. "Mailing" is used about 182 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 56.59% | 103 | 32,137 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 22.53% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10.44% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.89% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (common) | 0.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 182 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "mailing": combination mailing ♦ mailing address ♦ mailing list ♦ mailing machine ♦ mailing piece. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mailing": mailing-card, mailing-list. | |
Ending with "mailing": black-mailing, E-mailing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
mailing list | 5,296 | mailing envelope | 85 |
mailing list company | 2,074 | mailing supply | 83 |
mailing | 1,201 | mailing list software | 81 |
mailing label | 558 | mailing service | 71 |
mailing address | 413 | company mailing address | 68 |
mailing box | 353 | mailing house | 62 |
mass mailing | 264 | residential mailing list | 62 |
mailing services | 245 | mailing fax | 60 |
mailing list broker | 244 | telemarketing mailing list list | 56 |
free mailing list | 221 | mlm mailing list | 56 |
bulk mailing | 199 | mailing list provider | 56 |
business mailing list | 161 | mailing software | 54 |
consumer mailing list | 154 | find a company mailing address | 52 |
mailing equipment | 140 | list mailing manual php | 50 |
direct mailing | 127 | home mailing | 48 |
work at home mailing | 118 | opportunity seeker mailing list | 47 |
mailing tube | 117 | mailing machine | 46 |
work from home mailing | 99 | buy mailing list | 46 |
direct mailing list | 99 | mailing address label | 44 |
email mailing list | 88 | find a mailing address | 44 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "mailing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | listë pajtimtareve (mailing list). (various references) | |
Chinese | 邮寄 (mailed). (various references) | |
Danish | rundskrivelse (circular, circular letter, mailing piece), postadresse (address for correspondence, mailing address, postal address), kombineret forsendelse (combination mailing, envoi mixte), forsendelsesliste (mailing list), edb-adresseliste (computerized mailing list), datamaskine-genereret brev (computer-generated letter, computer-generated mailing piece, data mailer), cirkulaere (circular, circular letter, mailing piece), adresseliste (directory, load map, mailing list). (various references) | |
Dutch | verzendlijst (mailing list), rondschrijven (circular), postadres (address for correspondence, mailing address, postal address), omzendbrief (circular, circular letter, mailing piece), gemengde zending (combination mailing, envoi mixte), geautomatiseerde postlijsten (computerized mailing list), computer-omslag (computer-generated letter, computer-generated mailing piece, data mailer), circulaire (circular), adressenlijst (mailing list, map, tape address register). (various references) | |
Finnish | postituslista (mailing list), postiosoite (postal address). (various references) | |
French | postage d'une lettre, expédition (mail), envois, dépôt la poste, action de préparer pour la poste. (various references) | |
German | abschickend, Post (mail, post, post office). (various references) | |
Greek | ταχυδρομικόσ (postal). (various references) | |
Hungarian | címjegyzék (address list, directory, mailing list). (various references) | |
Italian | mailing, invio (consignation, despatch, dispatch, forwarding, remittance, sending). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 郵送 , 郵送 , メール交換 (10^6, correspondence, exchange of letters, mace, mail, mail order, mailer, mailing list, main, main amp, main bank, main course, main culture, main event, main gate, main pole, main stand, main street, main table, main title, mainframe, main-memory, make, make-up, mate, mechanic, mechanical, mechanical automation, mechanics, mechanism, mechatronics, mega-, mega trend, megacycle, megaton, MT), メートル法 (maid, mail, mail order, mail survey, mailing list, mail-reader, mail-system, metric system, Moebius), 投函 (posting). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | メーリング , メイリング , ゆうそう (brave, bravery, gallant, heroic, heroism, majestic, quiet window, soul-stirring), とうか" (bitter cold, disregard, frost, make light of, neglect, negligence, posting, supervision, supervisor, sweating while sleeping). (various references) | |
Korean | 우편물 (mail). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ailingmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sobrescrito informático (computer-generated letter, computer-generated mailing piece, data mailer), objecto postal misto (combination mailing, envoi mixte), lista de endereços informatizada (computerized mailing list), lista de endereços (mailing list), lista de difusão (mailing list), envelope informático (computer-generated letter, computer-generated mailing piece, data mailer), endereço postal (address for correspondence, mailing address, postal address), endereço para correspondência (mailing address), direcção postal (mailing address, postal address), circular (be about, circle, circulate, circumvent, course, float, go around, rotate, round, show card, surround), carta-circular (circular, circular letter, mailing piece). (various references) | |
Romanian | listã de adrese (mailing list). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | slanje poštom. (various references) | |
Spanish | mailing, envío (consignment, despatch, dispatch, remittance, sending, shipment, shipping), buzoneo. (various references) | |
Swedish | postande, post (entry, item, lot, mail, post, postal, quarter), expedition (dispatch, execution, expedition, exploration, forwarding, office, orderly room, posting, sending, serving of customers). (various references) | |
Thai | การส่งไปรษ"ีย์. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | відправка поштою, поштове відправлення (posting). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mailing": mailings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "mailing": airmailing, blackmailing, emailing, greenmailing, remailing. (additional references) | |
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"Mailing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ameling, Amelung, Macibini, maiding, maillen, mailling, mainin, maining, Maitlin, malang, Malini, malinin, mauline, mawling, Maylin, Mealing, Meiling, miaouing, miling, minilink, minipig, smailing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mailing" (pronounced mā"ling) |
| 4 | -ā" l i ng | ailing, assailing, bailing, baling, curtailing, derailing, detailing, entailing, failing, flailing, Grayling, hailing, inhaling, jailing, nailing, prevailing, railing, regaling, sailing, scaling, surveilling, tailing, trailing, unavailing, unfailing, unveiling, veiling, wailing, whaling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | annealing, appalling, appealing, ambling, angling, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tangling, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unwilling, waffling, waggling, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-l-m-n" | |
-1 letter: ailing, aiming, laming, limina, liming, lingam, malign, nilgai. | |
-2 letters: algin, align, animi, gamin, liang, ligan, liman, linga, milia. | |
-3 letters: agin, amin, anil, gain, glia, glim, ilia, inia, lain, lang, lima, limn, ling, magi, mail, main, mina, mini, nail. | |
-4 letters: ail, aim, ain, ami, ani, gal, gam, gan, gin, lag, lam, lin, mag, man, mig. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-i-l-m-n" | |
+1 letter: claiming, emailing, imaginal, impaling, mailings, miauling, misalign. | |
+2 letters: anglicism, bigeminal, climaxing, gimbaling, grimalkin, imbalming, imblazing, inflaming, maligning, malignity, misaligns, mislaying, remailing. | |
+3 letters: acclaiming, admiringly, airmailing, alimenting, almsgiving, amplifying, anglicisms, calamining, declaiming, diplomaing, exclaiming, filmmaking, gadolinium, gimballing, grimalkins, imaginable, imaginably, immolating, impaneling, impearling, implanting, impleading, laminating, magnifical, mainlining, marginalia, melanizing, metalising, metalizing, militating, misaligned, misallying, miscalling, misdealing, misdialing, misleading, misplacing, misplaying, misvaluing, moralising, moralizing, multigrain, mutilating, reclaiming, simulating, trigeminal, ultimating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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