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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}...
E-mail messages happen in bursts. -- Antonio, Sherry, Sveinar, Sonia
Email: when it absolutely, positively has to get lost at the speed of light.
Emallgration: Migration toward lower-tech, lower-information environments containing a lessened emphasis on consumerism.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. -- Bob Marley
EMANCIPATION, n. A bondman's change from the tyranny of another to the despotism of himself.
He was a slave: at word he went and came; His iron collar cut him to the bone....
EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds.
Embrace the flag, And hope to someday live in that free republic for which it stands.
Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars, White, black, and gray, with all their trumpery.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book iii, Line 474...
E = mc^2 +_ 3d6

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