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email

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Synonyms: mail, smail, gmail, e-mail, e mail, emil, vmail, emal, rmail, dmail, emall

Antonyms: mail, smail, gmail, e-mail, e mail, emil, vmail, emal, rmail, dmail, emall

Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.

Noun

  1. A system for transmiting and receiving messages and data 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.
    • The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.
  2. The quantity of messages sent through an email system.
    • I am searching through my old email.
    • My inbox used to allow only 50 MB of email at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!
  3. A message being sent through email.
    • He sent me an email last week to remind me about the meeting.
    • I archive my old emails using a cloud-based service.
  4. Clipping of email address.
    • What’s your email?
    • In this system, your username is your email.
    • Don’t send personal messages to my work email.

Verb

  1. To send an email (etymology 1, noun sense 3) or emails to.
    • She emailed me last week, asking about the status of the project.
  2. To send an email or emails.
    • Most teenagers seem to spend almost the whole day emailing and surfing the Web.
  3. To send (data) through email.
    • I’ll email you the link.
    • He emailed the file out to everyone.

Noun

  1. Enamel (“an opaque, glossy coating”).

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