different between smail vs email

English

Etymology

From snail mail, patterned on email.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??s.me?l/, /sme?l/

Noun

smail (uncountable)

1. (Internet, dated) Conventional postal mail; snail mail.
   • 1997 November 18, “SteveH1491” (username), “Trick Int'l smail address?”, in alt.music.cheap-trick, Usenet.
   • 2000 August 5, “Robin” (username), “Re: Letter from india”, in uk.politics.misc and other newsgroups, Usenet:

     On a similar note just imagine if we could persuade companies that sending junk smail is hugely ineffective. All those people, using all that paper, printers, ink, postmen etc etc.

   • 2002 July 15, “Thor” (username), “Looking for Maisto On Track Diescast Trains”, in rec.models.railroad, Usenet:

     If anyone knows a smail order or internet vendor who carries them, please let me know ¶

Verb

smail (third-person singular simple present smails, present participle smailing, simple past and past participle smailed)

1. (Internet, dated) To send by postal mail.

Anagrams

• Islam, Salim, Simla, alims, limas, mails, malis, misal, salmi, simal

English

Etymology 1

The noun is an abbreviation of electronic mail. The verb is derived from the noun, by analogy with mail (“to send through the mail”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?i?me?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?i?me?l/
• Rhymes: -i?me?l

Noun

email (countable and uncountable, plural emails) (computing)

1. (uncountable) A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually through a network.

   Antonym: snail mail

2. (uncountable) A quantity of messages sent through an email system.

3. (countable) A message sent through an email system.

4. (countable, informal) An email address.

Alternative forms

• e-mail

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

email (third-person singular simple present emails, present participle emailing, simple past and past participle emailed)

1. (transitive) To send an email or emails to.

2. (transitive, may take two objects) To send (something) through email.

3. (intransitive) To send, or compose and send, an email or emails.

Translations

See also

• webmail

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French email, from Old French esmal (“enamel”) (modern French émail (“enamel; vitreous enamel; glaze (coating on pottery)”)), from Medieval Latin smaltum (“enamel”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to melt; to soften”). Doublet of smalt, smalto, and schmaltz.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: ?-m?l?, IPA^(key): /??me?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l

Noun

email (plural emails)

1. (obsolete, rare) Enamel (“an opaque, glossy coating”).

Alternative forms

• emayle

Derived terms

• email ink
• emailled (adjective)

Related terms

• email ombrant

References

Further reading

• email on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Lamie, ameli, maile

Czech

Alternative forms

• e-mail

Noun

email m

1. enamel
2. (informal) email (electronic communication)

Usage notes

Some institutions discourage this spelling of electronic communication in favor of e-mail.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French émail, from Old French esmal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e??m?i?/
• Hyphenation: email

Noun

email n (uncountable)

1. enamel

   Synonym: emaus

2. (heraldry) tincture

Derived terms

• emailleren

Related terms

• emaus
• smalt
• smelten

Anagrams

• maile

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English email.

Noun

email m (plural emails)

1. (informal) email

Synonyms

• courriel
• courrier électronique

See also

• émail

Anagrams

• maile, mailé, mêlai

Hungarian

Etymology

From French émail, from Old French esmal, from Frankish *smalt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??m?jil], [??ma?j], [??ma?jl]
• Hyphenation: email

Noun

email (plural emailok)

1. enamel, glaze (an opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects)

   Synonym: zománc

2. enamel (the hard covering on the exposed part of a tooth)

   Synonym: fogzománc

Declension

Derived terms

• emailíroz
• emailos

See also

• e-mail

References

• Laczkó, Krisztina and Attila Mártonfi. Helyesírás (’Orthography’). Budapest: Osiris Kiadó, 2006. ?ISBN

Further reading

• email in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Noun

email m or f (invariable)

1. email

   Synonym: e-mail

Derived terms

• emailare

Anagrams

• amile, malie

Romanian

Etymology 1

From French émail.

Noun

email n (plural emailuri)

1. enamel

Declension

Etymology 2

From English email.

Noun

email n (plural emailuri)

1. email

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?imeil/, [?i.mei?l]

Noun

email m (plural emails)

1. email
2. email address