Definitions for email
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Princeton's WordNet(2.40 / 5 votes)Rate this definition:

1. electronic mail, e-mail, email(verb)

   (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, netmail(verb)

   communicate electronically on the computer

   "she e-mailed me the good news"

Wiktionary(3.55 / 11 votes)Rate this definition:

1. email(Noun)

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

Freebase(2.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

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(3.00 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

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(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. email

   A form of electronic communication system.

   Email is a global tool and form of communication.

   Submitted by MaryC on February 25, 2020  

How to pronounce email?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

How to say email in sign language?

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. Ogochukwu Diei:

   Instead of me having to interact physically with my friends and contact them or run into them in order to get their attention and let them know how I'm doing, they can just contact me on Facebook or through email, it's easier for me to say 'Hey, I'm doing fine.'.

2. Paul Ryan:

   This decision, long overdue, is the result of her reckless use of a private email server, and her refusal to be forthcoming with federal investigators, i renew my call for the Director of National Intelligence to suspend all classified briefings for Bill Clinton until this matter is fully resolved.

3. Kate Brown:

   Former Governor Kitzhaber’s legal counsel has been notified of the lack of archiving for this time period and has committed to producing public records from that email account from that time frame to the governor’s Office, those records will be reviewed upon receipt by the governor’s office, and will be released as part of the additional productions from this account.

4. Secretary Clinton:

   Ithink if you take his encouragement that the Russians hack into American email accounts, if you take his quite excessive praise for Putin, his absolute allegiance to a lot of Russian wish-list foreign policy positions … [ it ] leads us once again to conclude he is not temperamentally fit to be president and commander in chief.

5. Howard Krongard:

   Certainly to my knowledge at least, Secretary [Condoleezza] Rice did not have a personal server. I certainly never either sent an email to one or received an email from one.

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