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e-mail

/ ˈiːmeɪl /

noun

  1. short for electronic mail
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. to contact (a person) by electronic mail
  2. to send (a message, document, etc) by electronic mail
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

e-mail

/ ēmāl′ /

  1. A system for sending and receiving messages electronically over a computer network. E-mail is asynchronous and does not require the receiver of the message to be online at the time the message is sent or received. E-mail also allows a user to distribute messages to large numbers of recipients instantaneously.
  2. A message or messages sent or received by such a system.


e-mail

  1. E-mail has become one of the most widely used aspects of the Internet , because it provides a means of mass communication to almost anywhere in the world at high speed.


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Notes

The proliferation of spam and the transmission of computer viruses through e-mail attachments are two of the more problematic aspects of this technology.
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Derived Forms

  • ˈe-mailer, noun
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Example Sentences

“For the record, I do not believe unions belong in government—including the police force,” Sherk said in an e-mail.

A phone message for Freundel at his synagogue was not returned, nor was an e-mail to his personal account.

Kushner, in an e-mail, said the reference came to her while she was writing.

Perhaps traditional mail will be revived, replacing e-mail, chats, and SMS.

“Our review was conducted on all publications, not one single publication,” Haney said in an e-mail.

If you come across a long passage that you recognize, e-mail lucy2424 at sbcglobal dot net.

Our e-mail reaches us as it reaches those to whom we send messages, even though most people have no idea how.

Determining the paths of an e-mail message is trivial for a machine, but almost impossible for a human being.

Messages exchanged on the data highways-from e-mail to Web communication-often display the same characteristics of aphasia.

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