email

plural emails · alternative e-mail · alternative E-mail · alternative EMail

1. uncountablecomputingA system for transmiting and receiving messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and the Internet Message Format.

   He sent me his details via email.

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   The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.

   Please stop sending me “constructive criticisms” via email, or telling me that “ I feel you are being defensive”, especially just after I have told you “you’re loved”. “Rewards” like that are horrible.

   Synonyms: mail · Antonyms: mail, post, snail mail

2. uncountablecomputingThe quantity of messages sent through an email system.

   I am searching through my old email.

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   My inbox used to allow only 50 MB of email at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!

   Synonyms: mail · Antonyms: mail, post, snail mail

3. countablecomputingA message being sent through email.

   I archive my old emails using a cloud-based service.

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

   Synonyms: mail · Antonyms: mailpiece

4. abbreviationclippingcountableinformalcomputingClipping of email address.

   What’s your email?

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   In this system, your username is your email.

   Don’t send personal messages to my work email.

present singular third person emails · participle present emailing · participle past emailed · past emailed · alternative e-mail · alternative E-mail · alternative EMail

1. transitivecomputingTo send an email (noun sense 3) or emails to.

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

2. intransitivecomputingTo send an email or emails.

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

3. ditransitivecomputingTo send (data) through email.

   I’ll email you the link.

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   He emailed the file out to everyone.

plural emails · alternative emayle

1. obsoleterarecomputingEnamel (“an opaque, glossy coating”).

   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!

   1579 January 10, George Puttenham, “[Appendix] Partheniades [No. 15; believed to have been presented to Elizabeth I of England on 1 January 1579 (Julian calendar)]”, in Joseph Haslewood, editor, Ancient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poësy (Miscellanea Poetica Anglicana Antiqua; 1), volume I, London: Printed by Harding and Wright, […], for Robert Triphook, […], published 1811, →OCLC, page xxxiv

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   It is reported, that the Pope long ſince gaue them [the people of Iceland] a diſpenſation to receiue the Sacrament in ale, inſomuch as for their vnceſſant froſts there, no wine but was turned to red emayle, as ſoone as euer it came amongſt them.

   1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, The Terrors of the Night or, A Discourse of Apparitions, London: Printed by Iohn Danter for William Iones, […], →OCLC, signature Diii; republished in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe. In Four Volumes. […] (The Huth Library), volume III, London; Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire: Printed [by Hazell, Watson, and Viney] for private circulation only, 1883–1884, →OCLC, pages 242–243

   Another part of this Earth being mixt with an equal part of its Salt, and put on the Fire to melt, in part pierc'd thro the Crucible, which was found on the outside, as it were, lin'd with a Brown Email, and the inside of the Crucible was cover'd with a Clear-Red Email.

   1684, [Samuel] Du Clos, “The Eighth Class. Of Cold Waters somewhat Aigre and Vinous, which Participate of a Salt Resembling the Nitre of the Ancients.”, in Observations on the Mineral Waters of France, Made in the Royal Academy of the Sciences, […] Now Made English, London: Printed for Henry Faithorne, and John Kersey […], →OCLC, pages 96–97