:email: /ee'mayl/ (also written `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 arranged in a net work".
A use from 1480 is given. The word is derived from French
`emmailleure', network.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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 arranged in a net work".
A use from 1480 is given. The word is derived from French
`emmailleure', network.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- email /ee'mayl/
(also written `e-mail' and `E-mail')
1.
. Electronic mail automatically passed through computer networks and/or via modems over common-carrier lines.... - ail-mail: n. Paper mail, as opposed to electronic.
Sometimes written as the single word `SnailMail'.... - paper-net: n. Hackish way of referring to the postal service,
analogizing it to a very slow, low-reliability network.
USENET {sig block}s sometimes include a "Paper-Ne... - voice-net: n. Hackish way of referring to the telephone system,
analogizing it to a digital network.
USENET {sig block}s not uncommonly include the sender's phone next to a "Voice... - ail-mail n.
Paper mail, as opposed to electronic.
Sometimes written as the single word `SnailMail'.... - voice-net n.
Hackish way of referring to the telephone
system, analogizing it to a digital network.
Usenet sig blocks not uncommonly include the "Voice... - paper-net n.
Hackish way of referring to the postal
service, analogizing it to a very slow, low-reliability network.
Usenet sig blocks sometimes include a "Paper-Ne... - pam vt.,vi.,n.
[from "Monty Python's Flying
Circus"] 1.
To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data.... - P-mail: n. Physical mail, as opposed to {email}. Synonymous
with {snail-mail}.
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