E-mail

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  E-mail \E-mail\, email \email\, e-mail \e-mail\([=e]"m[^a]l`),
     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.
  


     Syn: electronic mail.
          [PJC] email
          E-mail

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  E-mail \E-mail\, email \email\, e-mail \e-mail\v. t. [imp. & p.
     p. {E-mailed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {E-mailing}.]
     to send (an e-mail message) to someone; as, I emailed the
     article to the editor; she emailed me her report.
  
     Syn: mail electronically.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  e-mail
       n : (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic
           communication in which a computer user can compose a
           message at one terminal that is generated at the
           recipient's terminal when he logs in [syn: {electronic
           mail}, {email}] [ant: {snail mail}, {snail mail}, {snail
           mail}]
       v : communicate electronically on the computer; "she e-mailed me
           the good news" [syn: {email}, {netmail}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  email
       n : (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic
           communication in which a computer user can compose a
           message at one terminal that is generated at the
           recipient's terminal when he logs in [syn: {electronic
           mail}, {e-mail}] [ant: {snail mail}, {snail mail}, {snail
           mail}]
       v : communicate electronically on the computer; "she e-mailed me
           the good news" [syn: {e-mail}, {netmail}]

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  email /ee'mayl/ (also written `e-mail' and `E-mail') 1. n. Electronic
     mail automatically passed through computer networks and/or via modems
     over common-carrier lines. Contrast {snail-mail}, {paper-net},
     {voice-net}. See {network address}. 2. vt. To send electronic mail.
  
     Oddly enough, the word `emailed' is actually listed in the OED; it
     means "embossed (with a raised pattern) or perh. arranged in a net or
     open work". A use from 1480 is given. The word is probably derived from
     French `e'maille'' (enameled) and related to Old French `emmailleu"re'
     (network). A French correspondent tells us that in modern French,
     `email' is a hard enamel obtained by heating special paints in a
     furnace; an `emailleur' (no final e) is a craftsman who makes email (he
     generally paints some objects (like, say, jewelry) and cooks them in a
     furnace).
  
     There are numerous spelling variants of this word. In Internet traffic
     up to 1995, `email' predominates, `e-mail' runs a not-too-distant
     second, and `E-mail' and `Email' are a distant third and fourth.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  e-mail
       
          {electronic mail}