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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun e-mail has 1 sense
- e-mail(n = noun.communication) electronic mail, email - (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" is a kind of electronic communication
has particulars: freemail, junk e-mail, spam
Derived form verb e-mail1
Antonym: snail mail
Verb e-mail has 1 sense
- e-mail(v = verb.communication) email, netmail - communicate electronically on the computer; "she e-mailed me the good news" is one way to telecommunicate
Derived form noun e-mail1
Sample sentences:
They e-mail them the information
They e-mail the information to them
CIDE DICTIONARY
e-mail, 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. [PJC]
e-mail, v. t.
to send (an e-mail message) to someone; as, I emailed the article to the editor; she emailed me her report. [WordNet 1.5]
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