Definition of "email" in İngilizce

noun

1. (uncountable) A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and the Internet Message Format.

   • He sent me his details via email.
   • The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.
   • Please stop sending me “constructive criticisms” via email, or telling me that “ I feel you are being defensive”, especially just after I have told you “you’re loved”. “Rewards” like that are horrible.

2. (uncountable) The quantity of messages sent through an email system.

   • 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!

3. (countable) A message being sent through email.

   • He sent me an email last week to remind me about the meeting.
   • I archive my old emails using a cloud-based service.

4. (countable, informal) An email address.

   • What’s your email?
   • In this system, your username is your email.
   • Don’t send personal messages to my work email.

verb

1. (transitive) To send an email or emails to.

   • She emailed me last week, asking about the status of the project.

2. (transitive, ditransitive) To send (data) through email.

   • I’ll email you the link.
   • He emailed the file out to everyone.

3. (intransitive) To send, or compose and then send, one or more emails.

   • Most teenagers seem to spend almost the whole day emailing and surfing the Web.

noun

1. (obsolete, rare) Enamel (“an opaque, glossy coating”).