emailing

Pluralemailings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of email.

   The committee is emailing each member a copy of the revised bylaws.

   By emailing the figures directly, she bypassed the slower internal mail system.

   Note

   The -ing form keeps all three of the verb's patterns. Its object can be the person reached (emailing the committee), the thing sent (emailing the figures), or both at once, with the person first (emailing each member a copy). It can also stand without an object, meaning simply sending or writing emails, as in she spent the morning emailing.

2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The act of transmitting a message to someone over the internet as electronic mail.

   The emailing of the quarterly report took only a moment once the file was ready.

   Routine emailing has largely replaced the paper memos that once circulated through the office.

   Note

   A noun that can be counted or not, depending on what is meant. Routine emailing is the activity in general, while emailings, in the plural, are separate occasions of sending. Grammar tells it apart from the verb form: the noun takes articles and adjectives and puts its object after of (the emailing of the report), while the verb takes a direct object (emailing the report).

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