email

Plural: emails

Noun

• (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
• A system for sending messages and datas by means of computers connected together in a network.
• The quantity of messages sent through an email system.
• A message being sent through email.
• An email address.
• Enamel (“an opaque, glossy coating”).

Verb

• communicate electronically on the computer
• To send an email or emails to.
• To send (data) through email.
• To send, or compose and then send, one or more emails.

Examples

• Don’t send personal messages to my work email.
• He emailed the file out to everyone.
• He sent me an email last week to remind me about the meeting.
• He sent me his details via email.
• I am searching through my old email.
• I archive my old emails using a cloud-based service.
• In this system, your username is your email.
• I’ll email you the link.
• Most teenagers seem to spend almost the whole day emailing and surfing the Web.
• My inbox used to allow only 50 MB of email at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!
• 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.
• She emailed me last week, asking about the status of the project.
• The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.
• What’s your email?

Synonyms

e-mail, electronic mail, netmail, mail

Antonyms

snail mail, mail, mailpiece#Noun, post#Noun

Related Words

email ombrant, webmail