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Princeton's WordNet

  1. electronic mail, e-mail, emailverb

    (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

    "you cannot send packages by electronic mail"

  2. e-mail, email, netmailverb

    communicate electronically on the computer

    "she e-mailed me the good news"

Wiktionary

  1. emailnoun

    a raised or embossed image pressed into metal, such as a seal pressed into a foil and attached to a document

Wikipedia

  1. Email

    Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices. Email was thus conceived as the electronic (digital) version of, or counterpart to, mail, at a time when "mail" meant only physical mail (hence e- + mail). Email later became a ubiquitous (very widely used) communication medium, to the point that in current use, an email address is often treated as a basic and necessary part of many processes in business, commerce, government, education, entertainment, and other spheres of daily life in most countries. Email is the medium, and each message sent therewith is also called an email. The term is a mass noun. Email operates across computer networks, primarily the Internet, and also local area networks. Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model. Email servers accept, forward, deliver, and store messages. Neither the users nor their computers are required to be online simultaneously; they need to connect, typically to a mail server or a webmail interface to send or receive messages or download it. Originally an ASCII text-only communications medium, Internet email was extended by Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) to carry text in other character sets and multimedia content attachments. International email, with internationalized email addresses using UTF-8, is standardized but not widely adopted.

ChatGPT

  1. email

    Email, short for electronic mail, is an online communication system that allows users to send and receive digital messages over a network. These messages can include text, attachments such as documents, images, and hyperlinks. Email is typically stored on a server and is accessed by the recipient via various devices, once they have logged into their email account.

Wikidata

  1. Email

    Electronic mail, most commonly referred to as email or e-mail since ca. 1993, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the same time, in common with instant messaging. Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model. Email servers accept, forward, deliver, and store messages. Neither the users nor their computers are required to be online simultaneously; they need connect only briefly, typically to a mail server, for as long as it takes to send or receive messages. Historically, the term electronic mail was used generically for any electronic document transmission. For example, several writers in the early 1970s used the term to describe fax document transmission. As a result, it is difficult to find the first citation for the use of the term with the more specific meaning it has today. An Internet email message consists of three components, the message envelope, the message header, and the message body.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. email

    (also written ‘e-mail’ and ‘E-mail’) 1. n. Electronic mail automatically passed through computer networks and/or via modems over common-carrier lines. Contrast snail-mail, paper-net, voice-net. See network address. 2. vt. To send electronic mail.Oddly enough, the word emailed is actually listed in the OED; it means “embossed (with a raised pattern) or perh. arranged in a net or open work”. A use from 1480 is given. The word is probably derived from French émaillé (enameled) and related to Old French emmailleüre (network). A French correspondent tells us that in modern French, ‘email’ is a hard enamel obtained by heating special paints in a furnace; an ‘emailleur’ (no final e) is a craftsman who makes email (he generally paints some objects (like, say, jewelry) and cooks them in a furnace).There are numerous spelling variants of this word. In Internet traffic up to 1995, ‘email’ predominates, ‘e-mail’ runs a not-too-distant second, and ‘E-mail’ and ‘Email’ are a distant third and fourth.

Editors Contribution

  1. email

    A form of electronic communication system.

    Email is a global tool and form of communication.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 25, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of email in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of email in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of email in a Sentence

  1. Ed Dowd:

    Now he's being accused of stealing an email list from an organization he built? Give me a break, not only did he create this list donor, by donor, friend by friend, but (the charity) still has the list.

  2. Seyit Tumturk:

    The Internet service providers and the email providers have an ethical and a moral responsibility to let the users know that they are being hacked, we are talking in people’s lives here.

  3. Ruth Milanaik:

    It only takes one second for a child to get hurt, if you’re distracted by your cellphone, answering a text or going through your email, then your eyes are not on the children.

  4. State Department:

    The State Department will be denying in full seven email chains, found in 22 documents representing 37 pages, the documents are being upgraded at the request of the Intelligence Community because they contain a category of Top Secret information ... These documents were not marked classified at the time they were sent.

  5. Paul Manafort:

    It is an attempt by them to take the focus off of the FBI's announcement of last Friday on the FBI's renewed interest in the Clinton email scandal and the WikiLeaks release of DNC and Clinton campaign emails, there is nothing of my business activities to investigate. There is no FBI investigation and NBC even admitted that there is no [c]riminal investigation.

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