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e·mail

or e-mail E5101300 (ē′māl′)n.1. A system for sending and receiving messages electronically over a computer network.2. A message or messages sent or received by such a system.tr.v. e·mailed, e·mail·ing, e·mails or e-mailed or e-mail·ing or e-mails 1. To send (someone) an email: I'll email you when I know my schedule.2. To send (a message) by email.

[e(lectronic) mail.]

email

Past participle: emailed
Gerund: emailing

Imperative
email
email

Present
I email
you email
he/she/it emails
we email
you email
they email

Preterite
I emailed
you emailed
he/she/it emailed
we emailed
you emailed
they emailed

Present Continuous
I am emailing
you are emailing
he/she/it is emailing
we are emailing
you are emailing
they are emailing

Present Perfect
I have emailed
you have emailed
he/she/it has emailed
we have emailed
you have emailed
they have emailed

Past Continuous
I was emailing
you were emailing
he/she/it was emailing
we were emailing
you were emailing
they were emailing

Past Perfect
I had emailed
you had emailed
he/she/it had emailed
we had emailed
you had emailed
they had emailed

Future
I will email
you will email
he/she/it will email
we will email
you will email
they will email

Future Perfect
I will have emailed
you will have emailed
he/she/it will have emailed
we will have emailed
you will have emailed
they will have emailed

Future Continuous
I will be emailing
you will be emailing
he/she/it will be emailing
we will be emailing
you will be emailing
they will be emailing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been emailing
you have been emailing
he/she/it has been emailing
we have been emailing
you have been emailing
they have been emailing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been emailing
you will have been emailing
he/she/it will have been emailing
we will have been emailing
you will have been emailing
they will have been emailing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been emailing
you had been emailing
he/she/it had been emailing
we had been emailing
you had been emailing
they had been emailing

Conditional
I would email
you would email
he/she/it would email
we would email
you would email
they would email

Past Conditional
I would have emailed
you would have emailed
he/she/it would have emailed
we would have emailed
you would have emailed
they would have emailed

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	email - (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in; "you cannot send packages by electronic mail"electronic mail, e-mailcomputer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structureselectronic communication - communication by computerfreemail - a service providing free email delivery in exchange for exposure to advertisingjunk e-mail, spam - unwanted e-mail (usually of a commercial nature sent out in bulk)snail mail - any mail that is physically delivered by the postal service; "email is much faster than snail mail"
Verb	1.	email - communicate electronically on the computer; "she e-mailed me the good news"e-mail, netmailcomputer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structurestelecommunicate - communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mailspam - send unwanted or junk e-mail

Translations

电子邮件电子邮箱的发电子邮件发送电子邮件

e-mail,

email

(ˈiːmeil) noun (also E-mail). 1. electronic mail. She sent him an email.电子邮件2. (adjectival) What is your e-mail address?. 电子邮箱的 verbHe promised to e-mail us his answer.发电子邮件

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→ 发送电子邮件zhCN, 电子邮件zhCN

May I have your email? (US)
Can I have your email? (UK) → 我可以知道你的电子邮件地址吗？

email

(Electronic-MAIL) The transmission of text messages from sender to recipient. Email messages can also be formatted with graphics like a brochure or Web page, an enhancement that many users like, but that creates more spam and a security risk (see HTML email).

Users can send a mail message to a single recipient or to multiple users. In addition, JPEG photos as well as any other type of computer file may be attached to the message (see email attachment). Mail is sent to a simulated mailbox in the organization's mail server until it is downloaded to the "in" mailbox in the user's computer.

The Messaging System and the Client
An email system requires a messaging system, which is primarily a store and forward capability based on the Internet's Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). A mail program (email client), such as Windows Mail, Mac Mail, Outlook and Eudora, provides the user interface for mailboxes and send and receive functions. Popular email services such as Gmail and Yahoo! Mail are Web based, in which case the Web browser is used as the mail program (see email interfaces).

The Internet Changed It All
The Internet revolutionized email by turning countless incompatible islands into one global system. Initially serving its own users, in the mid-1990s, the Internet began to act as a mail gateway between the major online services such as CompuServe and America Online (AOL). It then became "the" messaging system for the planet. In the U.S., Internet mail is measured in the trillions of messages each year. See email vs. fax, messaging system, instant messaging, read receipt and self-destructing email.

Could They Have Imagined Spam?

When they sent this first message in 1971, could they have imagined the trillions of email messages that would follow in years to come? (Image courtesy of Dan Murphy, www.opost.com/dlm)

The First Email on the Internet

In 1971, the first email message was typed into the Teletype terminal connected to the Digital Equipment PDP-10 toward the back of the room in the following picture. The message was transmitted via ARPAnet, the progenitor of the Internet, to the PDP-10 in front. Dan Murphy, a Digital engineer, took this photo in the Bolt, Beranek and Newman datacenter. See ARPAnet.

Could They Have Imagined Spam?

When they sent this first message in 1971, could they have imagined the trillions of email messages that would follow in years to come? (Image courtesy of Dan Murphy, www.opost.com/dlm)

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noun (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in

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verb communicate electronically on the computer

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