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Email

Email

See also: email, e-mail, E-Mail, and émail

German

Noun

Email n (genitive Emails, no plural)

  1. enamel (opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects)
    • 1781, Johann Karl Gottfried Jacobsson, Otto Ludwig Hartwig, Gottfried Erich Rosenthal. Technologisches Wörterbuch, vol. 1 (A–F), p. 585.
      Bey dem Email verursacht der erforderliche Grad der Hitze die gröste Schwierigkeit, nicht nur bey dem Email selbst, sondern auch, wenn die Farben darauf eingebrannt werden.
      On the enamel the required degree of heat causes the greatest difficulty; not just on the enamel itself but also when the colors are burned onto it.
    • 2005, Benvenuto Cellini, Traktate über die Goldschmiedkunst und die Bildhauerei (translation of I trattati dell'oreficeria e della scultura by Ruth Fröhlich and Max Fröhlich), Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, ISBN 3412247057, p. 55:
      Wie ich oben schon erwähnte, ist es besser, das Email mit Wasser in besagtem Stahlmörser zu reiben.
      As I mentioned above, it is better to rub the enamel in water in the aforesaid steel mortar.
    • 2008, Erhard Brepohl, Theorie und Praxis des Goldschmieds, Hanser Verlag, ISBN 3446410503, p. 426:
      Mit feuchtem Pinsel wird etwas Email aus dem Schälchen entnommen, auf das Metall aufgetragen und dort verteilt.
      With a wet brush some enamel is taken from the bowl, applied to the metal and spread on it.

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Luxembourgish

Noun

Email m (uncountable)

  1. enamel

email

email

See also: Email, e-mail, E-Mail, and émail

English

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Etymology

Abbreviation of electronic mail

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈiːmeɪl/
  • Rhymes: -iːmeɪl

Noun

email (countable and uncountable, plural emails)

  1. (uncountable) 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. (countable) 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. (uncountable) 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. (informal) An e-mail address.
    What's your email?
    Don't send personal messages to my work email.

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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. (intransitive) To send, or compose and send, an email or emails.
    Most teenagers spend twenty-six hours a day emailing and surfing the Web.
  3. (transitive, may take two objects) To send via email.
    I'll email you the link.
    He emailed the file out to everyone.
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Etymology 2

French émail (enamel)

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ĕ-mālʹ, IPA(key): /ɛˈmeɪl/
  • Rhymes: -eɪl

Noun

email (plural emails)

  1. (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
  2. A type of dark ink

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Czech

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Noun

email m

  1. enamel
  2. (informal) email (electronic communication)

Usage notes

Some institutions discourage this spelling of electronic communication in favor of e-mail.


Dutch

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Noun

email n (uncountable)

  1. enamel
  2. (heraldry) tincture

Derived terms

  • emaillen

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French

Noun

email m (plural emails)

  1. (informal) email

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Italian

Noun

email f (invariable) (Also: e-mail)

  1. email

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Spanish

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English

Noun

email m (plural emails)

  1. email
  2. email address