Word Confusion: Mail versus Male

Plural for the noun: mails (the system of mails operated or supervised by the national government, for sending or delivering letters, packages, etc.)
Gerund: mailing

Third person present verb: mails
Past tense or past participle: mailed
Present participle: mailing

Plural: males

• The postal system
• [As modifier] A mail truck
• [In singular noun] A single delivery or collection of mail

[Computing] E-mail

[Dated] A vehicle, such as a train, carrying mail

[Archaic] A bag of letters to be conveyed by the postal system

[Historical] Armor made of metal rings or plates, joined together flexibly ²

• The protective shell or scales of certain animals
• [Textiles] An oval piece of metal pierced with a hole through which the warp ends are threaded, serving as an eyelet on a heddle or especially on the harness cords of a Jacquard loom

[Scottish] Payment, rent, tribute ³

Verb, transitive:
Send a letter or package using the postal system ¹

• [Computing] Send (someone) e-mail

Clothe or cover with mail ²

• Relating to or characteristic of men or male animals
  • Masculine
• [Of a plant or flower] Bearing stamens but lacking functional pistils
• [Of parts of machinery, fittings, etc.] Designed to enter, fill, or fit inside a corresponding female part

Noun:
A male person, plant, or animal

The check is in the mail

Did the mail truck come yet?

Did you see that new magazine that came in the mail today?

Chain mail has been around since at least the fourth century BC and continues to be used today.

Chain mail was eventually supplanted by plate armor.

“We ordain and appoint our present Town-thesaurer, and his successors in office, to pay the house-rent and mails of his Lordship and succeeding Presidents of the Session” (Act).

“The arrears of rent, or, in our law-style, of mails and duties, prescribe, if they be not pursued for within five years after the tenant’s removing from the lands out of which the arrears are due” (Jamieson).

Verb, transitive:
If you will mail the coupon, we’ll send you a free trial package.

Hank, e-mail those attachments now.

Mail up!

Male unemployment is at an all-time high.

He had a deep male voice that made me shiver.

They protect their territory from other males.

The police are looking for a tall white male in his mid-twenties.

“If a flower is having only stamens as sex organs and not the carpel, such flowers are called staminate flowers and are falsely referred to as male” (Unisexual).

You’re supposed to insert the male hose end into the female hose end to make the connection.

Noun:
The audience consisted of adult males.

The male of the species has two brains.

A male nurse came to take my temperature.

Male dogs tend to be more aggressive.

1. Its first known use was in the 13th century.
   Middle English male, from the Anglo-French, of Germanic origin and akin to the Old High German malaha meaning bag.

   The notion by post dates from the mid-17th century.

2. Its first known use was in the 14th century.
   Middle English (also denoting the individual metal elements composing mail armor) and from the Old French maille, from the Latin macula meaning spot or mesh.
3. Its first known use was in before 1150.
   Middle English male, maille, from the Old English māl meaning agreement, pay, from the Old Norse māl meaning speech, agreement and akin to the Old English mǣl speech.