Word Type
E-mail can be a verb or a noun.
e-mail used as a verb:
- To compose and send an e-mail
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
e-mail used as a noun:
- A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually via a network.
"He sent me his details via e-mail." - A message sent via an e-mail system.
"I am searching through my old e-mails." - A quantity of e-mail messages.
"I am searching through my old e-mail." - An e-mail address.
"What's your e-mail?"
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
Related Searches
What type of word is e-mail?
- Noun usage: He sent me his details via e-mail.
- Noun usage: The advent of e-mail has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.
- Noun usage: I am searching through my old e-mails.
- Noun usage: He sent me several e-mails last week to that effect.
- Noun usage: I am searching through my old e-mail.
- Noun usage: My inbox used to only allow 50 MB of e-mail at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!
- Noun usage: What's your e-mail?
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of e-mail are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of e-mail, and guess at its most common usage.
Word Type
For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
