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NETMAIL
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Communicate electronically on the computer
Example:
she e-mailed me the good news
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "netmail" is one way to...):
telecommunicate (communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mail)
"Netmail" entails doing...:
mail; post; send (cause to be directed or transmitted to another place)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "netmail"):
spam (send unwanted or junk e-mail)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sentence examples:
They netmail them the information
They netmail the information to them