email

Noun (1)

email (countable and uncountable, plural emails)

1. (uncountable) A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and the Internet Message Format.
   • He sent me his details via email.
   • The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.

   Synonyms:

   mail

   Antonyms:

   mail, post, snail mail

2. (uncountable) The quantity of messages sent through an email system.
   • I am searching through my old email.
   • My inbox used to allow only 50 MB of email at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!

   Synonyms:

   mail

   Antonyms:

   mail, post, snail mail

3. (countable) A message being sent through email.
   • He sent me an email last week to remind me about the meeting.
   • I archive my old emails using a cloud-based service.

   Synonyms:

   mail

   Antonyms:

   mailpiece

4. (countable, informal) An email address.
   • What’s your email?
   • In this system, your username is your email.

Verb

email (third-person singular simple present emails, present participle emailing, simple past and past participle emailed)

1. (transitive) To send an email or emails to.
   • She emailed me last week, asking about the status of the project.
2. (ditransitive, transitive) To send (data) through email.
   • I’ll email you the link.
   • He emailed the file out to everyone.
3. (intransitive) To send, or compose and then send, one or more emails.
   • Most teenagers seem to spend almost the whole day emailing and surfing the Web.

Noun (2)

UK/ɛˈmeɪl/

email (plural emails)

1. (obsolete, rare) Enamel (“an opaque, glossy coating”).
   • 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 10, George Puttenham, “[Appendix] Partheniades [No. 15; believed to have been presented to Elizabeth I of England on 1 January 1579 (Julian calendar)]”, in Joseph Haslewood, editor...
   • 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.1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, The Terrors of the Night or, A Discourse of Apparitions, London: Printed by Iohn Danter for William Iones, […], →OCLC, signature Diii; republished in Alexander B[alloch]...