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noun

e-mail, email, 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.

Synonyms: electronic mail.

verb

e-mail, email, E-mail v. t. (past & past part. e-mailed; pres. part. e-mailing) To send (an e-mail message) to someone; as, I emailed the article to the editor; she emailed me her report.

Synonyms: mail electronically.

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Etymology of 'Email'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Email" Quotes from Famous Books

... provides a free electronic mailing list, *NewsNet,* that issues periodic email messages on the subject of copyright. The messages alert subscribers to hearings, deadlines for comments, new and proposed regulations, new publications, and other copyright-related subjects of interest. NewsNet is not an interactive ...

— Copyright Basics • Library of Congress. Copyright Office.

... all been treated by me with candour, which they have not been careful of observing to one another. It is not easy to discover from what cause the acrimony of a scholiast can naturally proceed. The subjects to be discussed by him are of very email importance; they involve neither property nor liberty; nor favour the interest of sect or party. The various readings of copies, and different interpretations of a passage, seem to be questions that might exercise the wit, without engaging the passions. But, whether it be, that small things make ...

— Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations • Charles W. Eliot