Definition of "email"

email¹

/ˈiːmeɪl/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural emails
1. (uncountable) A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually through a network.
2. (uncountable) A quantity of messages sent through an email system.
3. (countable) A message sent through an email system.
4. (countable, informal) An email address.
verb
third-person singular simple present emails, present participle emailing, simple past and past participle emailed
1. (transitive) To send an email or emails to.
2. (transitive, ditransitive) To send (something) through email.
3. (intransitive) To send, or compose and send, an email or emails.

email²

/ɛˈmeɪl/

noun
plural emails
1. (obsolete, rare) Enamel (“an opaque, glossy coating”).
  Quotations
  Set Naples courser to an asse, / Fine emerawde vnto greene glasse: / Set rich rubye to redd emayle, / The raven's plume to peacocke's tayle: / [...] / There shall no less an oddes be seene, / In myne from everye other Queene!
  1579 January 11, George Puttenham, “[Appendix] Partheniades ”, in Joseph Haslewood, editor, Ancient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poësy (Miscellanea Poetica Anglicana Antiqua; 1), volume I, London: Printed by Harding and Wright, […], for Robert Triphook, […], published 1811, page xxxiv
  It is reported, that the Pope long ſince gaue them [the people of Iceland] a diſpenſation to receiue the Sacrament in ale, inſomuch as for their vnceſſant froſts there, no wine but was turned to red emayle, as ſoone as euer it came amongſt them.In other words, the weather was so cold that wine froze and resembled red enamel.
  1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, The Terrors of the Night or, A Discourse of Apparitions, London: Printed by Iohn Danter for William Iones, […], signature Diii; republished in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe. In Four Volumes. […] (The Huth Library), volume III, London, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire: Printed [by Hazell, Watson, and Viney] for private circulation only, 1883–1884, pages 242–243
  Another part of this Earth being mixt with an equal part of its Salt, and put on the Fire to melt, in part pierc'd thro the Crucible, which was found on the outside, as it were, lin'd with a Brown Email, and the inside of the Crucible was cover'd with a Clear-Red Email.
  1684, [Samuel] Du Clos, “The Eighth Class. Of Cold Waters somewhat Aigre and Vinous, which Participate of a Salt Resembling the Nitre of the Ancients.”, in Observations on the Mineral Waters of France, Made in the Royal Academy of the Sciences, […] Now Made English, London: Printed for Henry Faithorne, and John Kersey […], pages 96–97

Definition of "email"

email1

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verb

email2

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