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# email

noun (email, emails); verb (email, emails, emailed, emailing)

«email» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An email is a message sent from one computer or phone to another over the internet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/email/#m1)
2. Email is the system for sending such messages. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/email/#m2)
3. To email is to send an email. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/email/#m3)

### In the lessons

a thing counted: emails received or sent in the morning, afternoon or evening; «in the day» adds the parts; phrases: «send an email», «get an email», «email address», «reply to an email»

### Examples

- Jack received 6 emails in the morning. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/email/#x1)
- He got 3 emails in the afternoon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/email/#x2)
- How many emails did he get in the day? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/email/#x3)
- How many more emails in the morning than in the evening? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/email/#x4)
- I emailed my teacher my project. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/email/#x5)
- Gran sends me an email every week. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/email/#x6)
- Check the email address before you press send. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/email/#x7)
- Never open an email from someone you don't know. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/email/#x8)

### Note

Countable: an email, emails. Also written e-mail. A thing counted, often split by time of day. «in the day» adds the parts. Trap: letters and emails are counted apart. Safety: do not share passwords in emails.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «email» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/email/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«email» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/email.html) on Mova free.