email

Abbreviation of electronic mail

• e-mail

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːmeɪl/

• audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːmeɪl

email (countable and uncountable, plural emails)

1. (uncountable) A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually via a network.

   He sent me his details via email.

   The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.

2. (countable) A message sent via an email system.

   He sent me an email last week to that effect.

   I am searching through my old emails.

3. (uncountable) A quantity of email messages.

   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!

4. (informal) An email address.

   What's your email?

   Don't send personal messages to my work email.

email (third-person singular simple present emails, present participle emailing, simple past and past participle emailed)

1. (transitive) To send an email or emails to.

   She emailed me last week, asking about the status of the project.

2. (intransitive) To send, or compose and send, an email or emails.

   Most teenagers spend twenty-six hours a day emailing and surfing the Web.

3. (transitive, may take two objects) To send via email.

   I'll email you the link.

   He emailed the file out to everyone.

• email address

• snail mail
• webmail

French émail (“enamel”)

• enPR: ĕ-mālʹ, IPA^(key): /ɛˈmeɪl/
• Rhymes: -eɪl

email (plural emails)

1. (obsolete, circa 13th century) 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

• Lamie, ameli, maile

• e-mail

email m

1. enamel
2. (informal) email (electronic communication)

Some institutions discourage this spelling of electronic communication in favor of e-mail.

• Audio

  (file)

email n (uncountable)

1. enamel
2. (heraldry) tincture

• emailleren

• maile

Borrowed from English email.

email m (plural emails)

1. (informal) email

• courriel
• courrier électronique

• émail

• maile, mailé, mêlai

From French émail, from Old French esmal, from Frankish *smalt.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛmɒʲil], [ˈɛmaːj], [ˈɛmaːjl]
• Hyphenation: email

email (plural emailok)

1. enamel, glaze (an opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects)

   Synonym: zománc

2. enamel (the hard covering on the exposed part of a tooth)

   Synonym: fogzománc

• emailíroz
• emailos

• Laczkó, Krisztina and Attila Mártonfi. Helyesírás (’Orthography’). Budapest: Osiris Kiadó, 2006. →ISBN

email m or f (invariable)

1. email

   Synonym: e-mail

• emailare

• amile, malie

English

email m (plural emails)

1. email
2. email address