mailer

See also: Mailer

English

Etymology

mail +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪlə(ɹ)

Noun

mailer (plural mailers)

1. One who sends mail.
   • 2009, Robert Bly, 88 Money-Making Writing Jobs, page 133:

     Large and frequent mailers may send material on a monthly basis to their house lists, test acquisitions several times a year to drum up new donors, and perhaps do a few special appeals on top of that.

2. A computer program that sends electronic mail.
3. A packet or container designed for postal use.

   The cassette came in a brown paper mailer.

4. A mailshot; advertising sent by mail.
   • 1957, Printers' Ink, volume 260, page 43:

     Lasky Co., Newark (N. J.) printer, has been using a direct-mail campaign slanted toward this problem. Latest mailer, an oversized post card, has on the address side a colorful drawing of a bird perched on top of a sign post.

   • 1982, NHFA's CompetitivEdge, volume 56, page 71:

     Do they recall your latest mailer? Did you ever sell an armoire through ads on hard-rock radio? Find out with low-cost "intercept" surveys of customers as they leave the store.

Related terms

• bubble mailer
• e-mailer
• hate mailer
• junk mailer
• mail
• padded mailer

 

Anagrams

• Elmira, Mari El, Mariel, remail

French

Etymology

From mail +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

mailer

1. to email (send an email)

Conjugation

Conjugation of mailer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	mailer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	mailant /mɛ.lɑ̃/ or /me.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		mailé /mɛ.le/ or /me.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	maile /mɛl/	mailes /mɛl/	maile /mɛl/	mailons /mɛ.lɔ̃/ or /me.lɔ̃/	mailez /mɛ.le/ or /me.le/	mailent /mɛl/
	imperfect	mailais /mɛ.lɛ/ or /me.lɛ/	mailais /mɛ.lɛ/ or /me.lɛ/	mailait /mɛ.lɛ/ or /me.lɛ/	mailions /mɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /me.ljɔ̃/	mailiez /mɛ.lje/ or /me.lje/	mailaient /mɛ.lɛ/ or /me.lɛ/
	past historic2	mailai /mɛ.le/ or /me.le/	mailas /mɛ.la/ or /me.la/	maila /mɛ.la/ or /me.la/	mailâmes /mɛ.lam/ or /me.lam/	mailâtes /mɛ.lat/ or /me.lat/	mailèrent /mɛ.lɛʁ/ or /me.lɛʁ/
	future	mailerai /mɛl.ʁe/	maileras /mɛl.ʁa/	mailera /mɛl.ʁa/	mailerons /mɛl.ʁɔ̃/	mailerez /mɛl.ʁe/	maileront /mɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	mailerais /mɛl.ʁɛ/	mailerais /mɛl.ʁɛ/	mailerait /mɛl.ʁɛ/	mailerions /mɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /me.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	maileriez /mɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /me.lə.ʁje/	maileraient /mɛl.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	maile /mɛl/	mailes /mɛl/	maile /mɛl/	mailions /mɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /me.ljɔ̃/	mailiez /mɛ.lje/ or /me.lje/	mailent /mɛl/
	imperfect2	mailasse /mɛ.las/ or /me.las/	mailasses /mɛ.las/ or /me.las/	mailât /mɛ.la/ or /me.la/	mailassions /mɛ.la.sjɔ̃/ or /me.la.sjɔ̃/	mailassiez /mɛ.la.sje/ or /me.la.sje/	mailassent /mɛ.las/ or /me.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	maile /mɛl/	—	mailons /mɛ.lɔ̃/ or /me.lɔ̃/	mailez /mɛ.le/ or /me.le/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “mailer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• limera