| 单词 | snail mail |
| 释义 | > as lemmassnail mail snail mail n. (a) colloquial mail or post which takes a long time to be delivered; (b) Computing slang (originally U.S.) the physical delivery of mail, as by the postal service, considered as slow in comparison to electronic mail; a letter, etc., sent by post. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] pauchle1608 postage1650 mail1654 Royal Mail?1780 snail mail1929 society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > letters, etc., by method of dispatch or conveyance post-letter1648 ship-letterc1675 by-letter1685 penny-post letter1686 way letter1710 by-night1766 cross-letter1789 twopenny1818 box letter1827 non-paid1829 balloon-letter1870 pigeongram1875 railway letter1891 pneumatogram1894 airmail1918 aerogram1919 airgram1919 air letter1920 pneumatique1924 pneu1926 snail mail1929 aerogramme1934 airgraph1941 1929 Indianapolis Star 23 Dec. 1/3 (heading) Snail mail... Edward Ranton has just received a statement of account which the Wild Automobile Agency here mailed nearly three years ago. 1982 Reply to: Yacc Wizardry Sought in net.unix-wizards (Usenet newsgroup) 3 June Our Unix-Wizard mail is slower than snail mail these days. 1983 N.Y. Times 13 Sept. c4/6 Other terms, like snail mail, for messages delivered by the United States Postal Service, as opposed to those transported electronically, are more widely comprehensible. 1989 New Scientist 6 May 66/3 All this is so much more congenial than..what we electronic-sophisticates now call ‘snail mail’, that one can properly talk of a new age. 2000 Nation 14 Feb. 7/1 Many of those voices mobilized..firing off thousands of e-mail and snail-mail missives to the FCC. < as lemmas |
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