Crossword clues for mailbox
mailbox
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
mailbox \mail"box`\ n.
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A public box for deposit of mail, where it is later picked up by the postal authority for delivery.
Syn: postbox, letter box.
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A private box to recieve delivery of mail. The term is used both for boxes receiving mail delivered by the public postal authority, or by a private services, such as for mail to employees in large corporations.
Syn: letter box.
(Computers) A location within a computer storage device where electronic mail is held until it is retrieved by the addressee. Creation and use of an electronic mailbox requires special software as well as a data storage device.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A box into which mail is put 2 (context computing English) A folder or account for the storage of e-mail; an electronic in-box or mailstore.
WordNet
n. a private box for delivery of mail [syn: letter box]
public box for deposit of mail [syn: postbox, letter box]
Wikipedia
A Mailbox is a box, usually at the end of the driveway, that mail carriers put mail in. Mailbox may refer to:
- Letter box (also known as a letter plate, letter hole, deed or mail slot), a private receptacle for incoming mail
- Post box (also known as a drop box), a public receptacle for outgoing mail
- Pillar box, a freestanding post box in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth
- Pigeon-hole messagebox, also known as a cubbyhole, pigeon-hole or pidge
- Email box, a destination for electronic messages
- Message queue, a means of interprocess communication in software engineering
- Mailbox (app), email management software for mobile devices
- The Mailbox, a retail complex in Birmingham, England
- The Mailbox (film), a short movie by the LDS Church
Mailbox was a freeware email management application for iOS and Android, developed by Orchestra, Inc. It drew the attention of numerous technology blogs for its usability and innovative features, such as swipe-based email sorting, snoozing and filtering. Weeks before its launch, a pre-registration period resulted in a waiting list of over 380,000 reservations. Upon its iOS launch on February 7, 2013, Mailbox became the second-most-downloaded free app in the App Store that day.
In March 2013, Orchestra was acquired by Dropbox. The rollout of Mailbox was sped up and the pre-registration period ended in April. In April 2014, Dropbox released Mailbox for Android and announced a public beta version for , which was released in August.
In December 2015, Dropbox announced the discontinuation of Mailbox, saying that they were not able to "fundamentally fix email" with it and that they rather focus on "[streamlining] the workflows that generate so much email". It was ultimately discontinued on February 26, 2016, as announced earlier.
Usage examples of "mailbox".
I entered the hotel, I checked my mailbox and found the invitation Angers had referred toa handsomely printed gilt-edged card which I was asked to display to the person appointed when presenting myself at a garden party at Presidential House, et cetera et cetera.
I own his mailbox, the lookup table to the one spot where he can be reached.
Someone had made a fortune selling rich midwesterners on the idea of oversized mailboxes painted with New England themes: lighthouses, lobster boats, saltbox houses, beach dunes.
You may have to move your messages from the outbox to this folder or mailbox.
Eight Annalee Purves had mail-ordered some bed sheets from Spiegel in Chicago, and so every now and then she would go to a front window of the farmhouse and look down the long dusty slope of the narrow driveway and see the red flag still up on the mailbox and wonder how late this Wednesday delivery would be.
He turned at their mailbox and drove up past the newly scythed lawn toward the house.
Vincent retreated to the edge of the crowd and watched helplessly as Yanders took another step and splintered the wooden mailbox near the front curb.
I took out my keychain and cleaned my fingernails with the mailbox key.
I kept my eyes on the odometer as we passed a succession of plastic mailboxes on posts, all neatly aligned by the roadside, the only sign that, somewhere deep in these forests, lay habitation.
I drove on, counting off the miles, crossing two more bridges and only a handful of mailboxes until I found the intersection I was looking for.
The mailboxes were on the right, three of them, and all were labeled: Apt.
He reached his ground-floor apartment, checked the battered mailbox cluster, which always got wet when it rained--stupid, dumb damn place to put the damn mailboxes, anyway, mailmen getting lazier and lazier-and then went into the concrete hallway, which stank of fried foods, cat piss, and laundry soap in about equal proportions.
Down the drive and across the road stood the birdhouse mailbox on its metal stalk.
What my cane did not tell me onemorning was that a gardener had parked his truck within astone's throw of the mailboxes, and that the steelhandle of his Weed Eater was sticking out over thesidewalk.
A line of mailboxes came into view, and she saw her father's name on the last one in small, neat black lettering: Leo Gottbaum, private and unobtrusive, showing no awareness of style, no interest in presenting an image to the outside world.