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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
email
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an email/mail message (=a message that you receive by email)
▪ Just send me an email message to let me know what time.
sb’s email address
▪ I can’t find his email address.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
address
▪ The address hook Despite first appearances, Internet email addresses aren't so hard to recall.
▪ You will be prompted to enter your email address as the password.
▪ To get yourself a free email address, see p.1 18.
▪ Start off by adding every email address you know, and click on all the options until you know it inside out.
▪ Each list has a central email address.
▪ It targeted families by offering multiple email addresses and parental controls.
▪ And a free email address, like Hotmail, spells trouble.
▪ Internet email addresses might look odd at first glance but they're really quite logical.
message
▪ In most cases, you subscribe by sending a single email message or by filling out a form on a Web page.
▪ If we keep only the email message and lose the medium we give up much valuable information.
■ VERB
send
▪ Before you can send email, you have to complete your email details.
▪ Mail lets you send email, and Print will print the document you're viewing.
▪ It also means you can send Web pages by email.
▪ In most cases, you subscribe by sending a single email message or by filling out a form on a Web page.
▪ Never, ever, ever, send bulk email other than to people you know or who've requested information.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Email has revolutionized the way we all think and work.
▪ Give me your email address and I'll send you directions to the party.
▪ I'll send you an email when I know more about it.
▪ I sent him an email two weeks ago, but I haven't heard anything back.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As discussions are conducted entirely by email, the only software needed is your standard mail program.
▪ Mail lets you send email, and Print will print the document you're viewing.
▪ The dates are held over email, and women reveal their most intimate desires over the phones.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I'll email you my resume when I get home.
▪ We'd been emailing each other for six months before we actually met.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Almost all shops you email confirming your order.
▪ Chances are they are emailing their mates or booking holiday flights.
▪ If you notice a pattern, email the distributors and ask for a fix.
▪ Ok, post and/or email me direct if you are or might be interested.
▪ Parties will be able to email the judge with interim applications.
▪ Security experts think the hackers might have found a way in by emailing a Trojan to the company's network.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
email

E-mail \E-mail\, email \email\, e-mail \e-mail\([=e]"m[^a]l`), n. electronic mail; a digitally encoded message sent from one computer to another through an electronic communications medium, especially by means of a computer network.

Syn: electronic mail.

email

E-mail \E-mail\, email \email\, e-mail \e-mail\v. t. [imp. & p. p. E-mailed; p. pr. & vb. n. E-mailing.] to send (an e-mail message) to someone; as, I emailed the article to the editor; she emailed me her report.

Syn: mail electronically. [WordNet 1.5] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
email

type of pottery design pattern, 1877, from French email, earlier esmail (12c.), literally "enamel" (see enamel (n.)). Also now a variant of e-mail.

Wiktionary
email

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context obsolete circa 13th century English) a raised or embossed image pressed into metal, such as a seal pressed into a foil and attached to a document 2 A type of dark ink Etymology 2

n. (alternative spelling of e-mail English) vb. (alternative spelling of e-mail English)

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WordNet
email

n. (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in [syn: electronic mail, e-mail] [ant: snail mail, snail mail, snail mail]

email

v. communicate electronically on the computer; "she e-mailed me the good news" [syn: e-mail, netmail]

Wikipedia
Email

Electronic mail is a method of exchanging digital messages between computer users; such messaging first entered substantial use in the 1960s and by the 1970s had taken the form now recognised as email. Email operates across computer networks, which in the 2010s is primarily the Internet. Some early email systems required the author and the recipient to 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.

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 multi-media content attachments. International email, with internationalized email addresses using UTF-8, has been standardized, but as of 2016 not widely adopted. The history of modern, global Internet email services reaches back to the early ARPANET, with standards for encoding email messages proposed as early as 1973 (RFC 561). An email message sent in the early 1970s looks very similar to a basic text email sent today. Email played an important part in creating the Internet, and the conversion from ARPANET to the Internet in the early 1980s produced the core of the current services. The ARPANET initially used extensions to the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to exchange network email, but this is now done with the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), first published as Internet standard 10 (RFC 821) in 1982.

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Usage examples of "email".

Even if an adolescent just wants to talk with friends in chat rooms, newsgroups, or email encounters, he or she still has to WRITE.

Even if an adolescent just wants to talk with friends in chat rooms, blogs, message boards, or email encounters, he or she still has to WRITE.

If you can't reach Project Gutenberg, you can always email directly to: Michael S.

But believe me, I just read the report Black emailed in from the plane.

In an organization with high security requirements, the corporate firewall shall be configured to filter out all email attachments.

De gedachte aan Otto mengde zich in die herinnering en zenuwachtig zochten hare vingers dan het medaillon van zwart email, aan hare horlogeketting.

And to all those enthusiastic and impatient people who read Sorcery Rising and sent me emails and letters urging me to get on and finish the next book: here it is!

The emails prove that the killing was staged for the benefit of the webcams Sophie Booth had set up.

Maybe if she found a higher paying job she could afford liposuction or bariatric surgery or one of those hypnosis clinics that kept sending emails.

Before installing that lock, it was agreed that Britch would email Vicki and in the course of the conversation, she would let slip her location, in the hopes that K would be still monitoring her email and thus discover where to find her.

Agnes had given them into the modem, so that only Britch or Agnes could access their email or phone.

In addition, you must train employees against the danger of being deceived into downloading a program, or opening an email attachment that could install malicious software.

With Falsh currently out schmoozing his VIP, perhaps the Doctor could fake an email from the boss to the supplies manager, demanding ten millilitres of mercury be brought at once to Docking Bay Two.

The software captures the activities of the user, including passwords and keystrokes typed, email, chat conversations, instant messenger, all the web sites visited, and screenshots of the display screen.

She was afraid I would be as unconvincing on the phone as I was by email, and that would just make her feel worse.