Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A usually short communication transmitted by words, signals, or other means from one person, station, or group to another.
- n. The substance of such a communication; the point or points conveyed: gestured to a waiter, who got the message and brought the bill.
- n. A statement made or read before a gathering: a retiring coach's farewell message.
- n. A basic thesis or lesson; a moral: a play with a message.
- v. To send a message to.
- v. To send as a message: messaged the report by cable.
- v. To send a message; communicate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A communication transmitted; a notice sent; information or opinion or advice communicated through a messenger or other agency: as, a verbal or written message; a telegraphic message.
- n. In United States politics, an official communication of information, opinion, or advice from a chief executive to a legislative body, or a formal statement of matters requiring legislative consideration or action, sent by the hands of a messenger: as, the President's or governor's message; an annual or a special message (that is, the message regularly presented at the opening of an annual legislative session, or one relating to some special matter subsequently arising).
- n. A company of messengers; an embassy.
- n. A messenger.
- To deliver in the manner of a messenger; announce.
Wiktionary
- n. A communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed.
- n. An underlying theme or conclusion to be drawn from something.
- n. A text message
- n. An instant message
- n. An email
- v. To send a message to; to transmit a message to, e.g. as text via a cell phone.
- v. To send (something) as a message; usually refers to electronic messaging.
- v. intransitive To send a message or messages; to be capable of sending messages.
- v. obsolete To bear as a message.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another.
- n. Hence, specifically, an official communication, not made in person, but delivered by a messenger.
- v. obsolete To bear as a message.
- n. obsolete A messenger.
WordNet 3.0
- v. send a message to
- n. what a communication that is about something is about
- v. send as a message
- n. a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled
- v. send a message
Etymologies
- Old French, from Late Latin missaticum, from Latin mittere, missum ("to send"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin missāticum, from Latin missus, past participle of mittere, to send. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Do we really need an an automated message *after our own message* saying, “at the tone, please record your…blah blah blah”?”
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“At a recent event, DLC leaders were asked about the Democratic message in 2006; they replied that the events and the economy will determine the outcome, therefore Dems needed no message at present.”
“EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'CDO. Message', @message OUT -- create the message object”
“* Add backtrace message for debugging function add_backtrace ($message) if ($this - > backtrace) $this - > backtrace_log [] = utf8_htmlspecialchars ($message);”
“You then send a message to your customer using $message to confirm the action they requested and show them the current contents of the cart.”
“$_POST [ "from"]; $subject = $_POST [ "subject"]; $message = $_POST [ "message"]; To specify from whom the e-mail is coming, use the optional fourth parameter for the mail () function, headers.”
“$message = censor_text (trim ($message_parser - > message));”
“$message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format. \n\n".”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘message’.
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Words related to knowledge
Words that relate to learning, knowing, being enlightened...
revelation, eureka, awakening, idea, sapient, astute, canny, intelligent, wise, sharp, shrewd, informed and 467 more...
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POL - campaign tokenisms
Positive words and vague promises. THE words and expressions to use when you want to win over the masses or just don't know what to say.
"CAPITAL" stands for the administrative capital...deserve, deserve better, destiny, determination, determine, determine the wil..., dialogue, differentiation, difficult question, disappointments, diverse, diversity and 751 more...
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The -ages of Man(-age)
Trivet also has this list, which you should go see. And then I found this list, and this list...
manage, salvage, selvadge, savage, voyage, umbrage, entourage, homage, carriage, marriage, language, potage and 123 more...
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Words For Novel (Part 2)
fable, sprite, syphilitic, anvil, wonderstruck, vertigo, bridled, tufted, fettered, savvy, tweed fedora, tryst and 255 more...
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Sage advice
sage, sage advice, usage, sagebrush, passage, embassage, message, presage, Seven Sages of Rome, runer, massage, corsage and 48 more...
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Technology
forum, profile, identify, register, user, community, sign in, text, address, inbox, key, screen and 53 more...
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Latin Spelling Bee List
need to know these words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
inane, ambivalent, incriminate, interrupt, amicable, meticulous, animosity, curriculum, electoral, transect, condolences, bugle and 132 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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INTERP - VOCABULARY
The vocabulary of conference interpreting. I commend this list to those who want to know more about the profession and to those who wish to organize their knowledge about the profession. To aspirin...
retour language, A-language, B-language, C-language, relay language, take sy on relay, language booth, booth meeting, mic, mike, mission, freelance interpr... and 2086 more...
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Tunie: Secord's Warning
By Tanglefoot.
"Secord's Warning"
by Joe Grant and Steve Ritchie
Come all you brave young soldier lads
With your strong and manly bearing
I'll tell you ...domination, free, guard, stand, station, canadians, usurping, save, dare, yankee, delivered, message and 49 more...
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de-verb this word
Nouns made into unnatural verbs, nouns used as verbs, verbs that used to be intransitive
systematize, alphabeticalize, problematize, impact, monetize, incentivize, actualize, randomize, conceptualize, exit, access, resource and 31 more...
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punkin words
mercurial, fickle, capricious, cancer, adoring, crabby, sleepy, blue, wandering, manic, hug, love and 33 more...
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TT3 Lesson 27
cousin, message, urgent, extremely, document, tip, gone for the day, happen, call in, contact, matter, keep fingers crossed and 19 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for message.
oroboros Take it or leave it. (NYT X-word puzzle clue/answer) Apr 21, 2011
whichbe This word make communication sound so... messy. Sep 3, 2008