Meanings
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1
noun
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.
He sent me his details via email.
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2
noun
The quantity of messages sent through an email system.
I am searching through my old email.
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3
noun
A message being sent through email.
He sent me an email last week to remind me about the meeting.
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4
noun
An email address.
What’s your email?
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5
verb
To send an email or emails to.
She emailed me last week, asking about the status of the project.
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6
verb
To send (data) through email.
I’ll email you the link.
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7
verb
To send, or compose and then send, one or more emails.
Most teenagers seem to spend almost the whole day emailing and surfing the Web.
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8
noun
Enamel (“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!
Etymology
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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