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email

Pronunciation: /ˈiːmeɪl/

The English word “email” has 8 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. 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.
  2. The quantity of messages sent through an email system.
  3. A message being sent through email.
  4. An email address.
  5. Enamel (“an opaque, glossy coating”).

verb

  1. To send an email or emails to.
  2. To send (data) through email.
  3. To send, or compose and then send, one or more emails.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French email, from Old French esmal (“enamel”) (modern French émail (“enamel; vitreous enamel; glaze (coating on pottery)”)), from Medieval Latin smaltum (“enamel”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to melt; to soften”). Doublet of smalt, smalto, and schmaltz.

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