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# email

«email» in Mova's school dictionary: **a message sent from one computer or phone to another over…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) An email is a message sent from one computer or phone to another over the internet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/email/#m1)

2) Email is the system for sending such messages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/email/#m2)

3) To email is to send an email. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/email/#m3)

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

### In the corpora

- [AI helps scammers write perfect emails, so good spelling is no longer proof a message is real.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/16/)
- [AI can sort emails at work and save time, but it sometimes puts important ones in the wrong pile.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/14/)
- [Spam filters use AI to spot junk and scam emails, but some real emails end up in the spam folder too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/6/)
- ["Per my last email" means "you did not read my email properly"; it is office jargon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/18/)
- [An email or message is fine to thank someone for small things, but a handwritten card means more for big gifts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «email» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/email/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.