e-mail message
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- noun
- /ˈiːˌmeɪl ˈmɛsɪdʒ/
- Texting
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mensaje de correo electrónico
- In short, lawyers need to take e-mail messages as seriously as a memo or opinion letter.
- send e-mail messages
- receive e-mail messages
- personal e-mail messages
Examples
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To subscribe to the Roadmap Workshop, send an e-mail message to listserv@lists.internic.net.
Academic text (1997) -
Of the 1,237 e-mail messages we sent in the original mailing, 350 were undeliverable.
Academic text (2002) -
To join this discussion list, send an e-mail message in the following manner:
Academic text (2004) -
To subscribe, address an e-mail message in the following manner:
Academic text (2004) -
I found an e-mail message from Clearburg.
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The participants who did not respond one week after the second e-mail message were contacted via telephone.
Academic text (2007) -
To find out more about this, send an e-mail message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu.
Academic text (1997) -
"I am thrilled," she said in an e-mail message from McMurdo Station.
Academic text (2009) -
Sales employee Michael Smyth thought the e-mail messages he sent to his supervisor at Pillsbury Co. would be confidential.
Academic text (2000) -
To join this discussion list, send an e-mail message in the following manner:
Synonyms
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A written message sent to a person or organization, often by mail
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A message sent over the internet to another person
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Messages sent or received over the internet
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A message that someone sends by computer to another person over the internet
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A way to send messages and documents between computers over the Internet
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A short written note sent by phone or email
A message sent over the internet to another person
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is transparently composed from 'e-mail' (an electronic message) and 'message' (a communication), so a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer it refers to a communication sent electronically. The composition follows standard noun-noun compounding and is cross-linguistically common, with no idiomatic shift or metaphorical extension.
Etymology
E-mail message comes from the old idea of 'mail' as a letter and e-mail meaning mail sent by computer, so imagine a letter travelling through wires. That's why a message called an e-mail message is a note you 'send by computer' or over the internet.