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Email

//ˈiːmeɪl// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and the Internet Message Format. uncountable

    "He sent me his details via email."

  2. 2
    Enamel (“an opaque, glossy coating”). obsolete, rare

    "Set Naples courser to an asse, / Fine emerawde vnto greene glasse: / Set rich rubye to redd emayle, / The raven's plume to peacocke's tayle: / [...] / There shall no less an oddes be seene, / In myne from everye other Queene!"

  3. 3
    (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in wordnet
  4. 4
    The quantity of messages sent through an email system. uncountable

    "I am searching through my old email."

  5. 5
    a message sent over the internet via the email system wordnet
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  1. 6
    A message being sent through email. countable

    "He sent me an email last week to remind me about the meeting."

  2. 7
    an identifier that a person uses as their identity to communicate on the email system wordnet
  3. 8
    An email address. countable, informal

    "What’s your email?"

Verb
  1. 1
    To send an email or emails to. transitive

    "She emailed me last week, asking about the status of the project."

  2. 2
    communicate electronically on the computer wordnet
  3. 3
    To send (data) through email. ditransitive, transitive

    "I’ll email you the link."

  4. 4
    To send, or compose and then send, one or more emails. intransitive

    "Most teenagers seem to spend almost the whole day emailing and surfing the Web."

Etymology

Etymology 1

The noun is an abbreviation of electronic mail. First attested in the 1970s. The verb is derived from the noun, by analogy with mail (“to send through the mail”).

Etymology 2

The noun is an abbreviation of electronic mail. First attested in the 1970s. The verb is derived from the noun, by analogy with mail (“to send through the mail”).

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Middle French email, from Old French esmal (“enamel”) (modern French émail (“enamel; vitreous enamel; glaze (coating on pottery)”)), from Medieval Latin smaltum (“enamel”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to melt; to soften”). Doublet of smalt, smalto, and schmaltz.

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