email or e-mail /ēˈmāl/

1. (in full electronic mail) the sending and receiving of written messages by electronic means
2. A message sent in this way

1. To send email to
2. To send by email

eˈmailer noun

eˈmailing noun

E

1. (as a medieval Roman numeral) 250
2. Electric field strength
3. Electromotive force
4. Energy

E

1. Earl
2. Earth
3. East
4. Eastern
5. Ecstasy, the drug (informal)
6. (also e) electronic, esp as over the Internet, as in e-mail, e-trading, e-economy
7. English
8. European (as in E number)
9. Exa-
10. Spain (ie España; IVR)

e-cigarette or e-cig noun

See separate entry

e-banking noun see separate entry.

e-book noun see separate entry.

e-business noun see separate entry.

e-card noun see separate entry.

E. coli see Escherichia coli under Escherichia

e-commerce noun see separate entry.

e-economy noun see separate entry.

Eˈ-fit® noun

A form of identikit, the image being composed on screen and adjustable by fine degrees

e-journal noun see separate entry.

E-layer or E-region see Kennelly-Heaviside layer

e-learning noun see separate entry.

email or e-mail noun see separate entry.

e-nose noun see separate entry.

E number noun

An identification code required by EU law for food additives such as colourings and preservatives, consisting of the letter E followed by a number

e-ticket noun see separate entry.

e-waste noun see separate entry.

E or e /ē/

1. The fifth letter in the modern English alphabet as in the Roman, with various sounds, as in me, get, England, her, prey, and often mute, commonly indicating a preceding long vowel or diphthong: cf not, note
2. Bit, bite
3. The third note of the diatonic scale of C major (music)
4. The key or scale having that note for its tonic (music)
5. In hexadecimal notation, 14 (decimal) or 1110 (binary)
6. In advertising and marketing, a person who has no regular income or who is dependent on state benefit
7. A tablet of the drug Ecstasy (informal)
8. Anything shaped like the letter E

• half-hearted
• half-heartedly
• half-heartedness
• half hitch
• half hitches
• half-holiday
• half-holidays
• half-hose
• half-hour
• half-hourly
• half-hours
• half-hunter
• half-inch
• half-inched
• half-inches
• half-inching
• half-integer
• half-integers
• half-integral
• half-kirtle
• half-kirtles
• half-landing
• half-leather
• half-leathers
• half-length