email

4 definitions found

email - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
          [PJC] email
          E-mail

  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]

email - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  email
      n 1: (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; "you
           cannot send packages by electronic mail" [syn: electronic mail
           , e-mail, email] [ant: snail mail]
      v 1: communicate electronically on the computer; "she e-mailed
           me the good news" [syn: e-mail, email, netmail]

email - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  email
   /ee'mayl/
  
     (also written `e-mail' and `E-mail')
  
     1. n. Electronic mail automatically passed through computer networks
     and/or via modems over common-carrier lines. Contrast snail-mail,
     paper-net, voice-net. See network address.
  
     2. vt. To send electronic mail.
  
     Oddly enough, the word emailed is actually listed in the OED; it
  means
     "embossed (with a raised pattern) or perh. arranged in a net or open
     work". A use from 1480 is given. The word is probably derived from
     French emaille (enameled) and related to Old French emmailleure
     (network). A French correspondent tells us that in modern French,
     `email' is a hard enamel obtained by heating special paints in a
     furnace; an `emailleur' (no final e) is a craftsman who makes email
     (he generally paints some objects (like, say, jewelry) and cooks them
     in a furnace).
  
     There are numerous spelling variants of this word. In Internet
  traffic
     up to 1995, `email' predominates, `e-mail' runs a not-too-distant
     second, and `E-mail' and `Email' are a distant third and fourth.