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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun email has 1 sense
- email(n = noun.communication) e-mail, electronic mail - (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 email1
Antonym: snail mail
Verb email has 1 sense
- email(v = verb.communication) e-mail, netmail - communicate electronically on the computer; "she e-mailed me the good news" is one way to telecommunicate
Derived form noun email1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
CIDE DICTIONARY
email, 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]
email, 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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