mailbox

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++

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mail·box /ˈmeɪlbɒks $ -bɑːks/ ●●○ noun [countable] American English  1. TCMDHa box, usually outside a house, where someone’s letters are delivered or collected 〔通常置于住宅外的〕信箱 →4  See picture of 见图 POSTBOX →5 see picture at 见图 postbox2. TCMa container where you post letters 邮箱，邮筒 SYN British English postbox3. the part of a computer’s memory where email messages are stored 电子邮箱，电子信箱

Examples from the Corpus

mailbox• You can also create mailboxes other than the simple in and out trays and mark them in however you want.• The only restriction is how often the person receiving the email checks his or her mailbox.• Every day Ralph ran to his mailbox, only to find it empty.• Factor in other magazines, fall catalogs choking the mailbox and spreads in local newspapers and it adds up to stylish overstimulation.• I was helping Syndi shovel out the mailbox and parking spaces down by the road.• The class also used the mailbox facility to ask for brochures which were sent to the school.• A single password protected voice mailbox exists where you can leave, or update a message that only certain users can access.From Longman Business Dictionarymailboxmail‧box /ˈmeɪlbɒks-bɑːks/ noun [countable]1American English a box, usually outside a house, where someone’s mail is delivered or collected2American English a container where you put letters that you want to sendSYN BrE postbox3COMPUTING the part of a computer’s memory where email messages are stored

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mailbox
mail‧box /ˈmeɪlbɒks $ -bɑːks/ noun [countable] American English
1. a box, usually outside a house, where someone’s letters are delivered or collected
2. a container where you post letters
   SYN  postbox British English
3. the part of a computer’s memory where email messages are stored

mail·boxBrE /ˈmeɪlbɒks/ 🔊NAmE /ˈmeɪlbɑːks/ 🔊 noun

(NAmE) (BrE ˈletter box) a small box near the main door of a building or by the road, which mail is delivered to （建筑物大门口或路旁的）信箱

(NAmE) (BrE post·box, ˈletter box) a public box, for example in the street, that you put letters into when you send them 邮筒；邮箱the area of a computer's memory where email messages are stored 电子邮箱，信箱区（计算机的电邮存储区）