email | |
1. n. A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually via a network. | |
He sent me his details via email. | |
The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart. | |
2. n. A message sent via an email system. | |
He sent me an email last week to that effect. | |
I am searching through my old emails. | |
3. n. A quantity of email messages. | |
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! | |
4. n. (informal) An email address. | |
What's your email? | |
Don't send personal messages to my work email. | |
5. v. To send an email or emails to. | |
She emailed me last week, asking about the status of the project. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To send, or compose and send, an email or emails. | |
Most teenagers spend twenty-six hours a day emailing and surfing the Web. | |
7. v. (transitive, may take two objects) To send via email. | |
I'll email you the link. | |
He emailed the file out to everyone. | |
8. n. (obsolete, circa 13th century) a raised or embossed image pressed into metal, such as a seal pressed into a foil and attached to a document | |
9. n. A type of dark ink | |