Message
['mesɪdʒ] or ['mɛsɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled; 'he sent a three-word message'.
(noun.) what a communication that is about something is about.
(verb.) send a message; 'There is no messaging service at this company'.
(verb.) send as a message; 'She messaged the final report by fax'.
(verb.) send a message to; 'She messaged the committee'.
Edited by Juanita--From WordNet
Definition
(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; as, the President's message.
(v. t.) To bear as a message.
(n.) A messenger.
Checker: Marsha
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Communication, intimation, missive, notice
ANT:Non-communication, interception
Inputed by Eunice
Definition
n. any communication sent from one person to another: an errand: an official communication of advice &c. as a President's Message in the United States.—n. Mess′enger the bearer of a message: a forerunner: a light scudding cloud preceding a storm: a piece of paper &c. blown up the string to the kite: the secretary-bird: a rope or chain by which cables were formerly connected to the capstan when heaving up the anchor: (Scots law) an officer who executes the summonses of the Court of Session called a Mess′enger-at-arms.—Queen's or King's messenger an officer who carries official despatches whether at home or abroad.
Typist: Ollie
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of receiving a message, denotes that changes will take place in your affairs. To dream of sending a message, denotes that you will be placed in unpleasant situations.
Inputed by Barbara
Examples
- The message was from D'Arnot. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He has been something of a voice crying in the wilderness, but a voice that did not understand its own message. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Wright, received the message. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Say my message to thy mistress, and let her do her pleasure. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Fanny had indeed nothing to convey from aunt Norris, but a message to say she hoped that her god-daughter was a good girl, and learnt her book. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- And he indirectly obliges me to force them, if I give her his message. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I could not get Louisville, and the cipher message began to come. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Each machine was operated by a clerk, who translated the message into telegraphic characters and prepared the transmitting tape by punching the necessary perforations therein. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Ten minutes after it touched at the palace a message called me to the council chamber, which I found filling with the members of that body. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The paper is thin, and the reverse will give the message. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Wireless press messages between America and Europe are also matters of daily performances. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But the test had proved Morse’s theory, and he became convinced that in time messages could be sent across the ocean as easily as over land. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The rate of one word a minute was the average speed of transmission when the first messages were sent through the wire. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Hence, two messages can be sent in opposite directions over the same line simultaneously. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To return to what I have digressed from, let me add that perhaps they think I report them to you, deliver little messages, and the like. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The sender went right along, and when he finished with six messages closed his key. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That you sent messages by, you know! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- As time went on the messages came with such lightning speed that the whole force gathered about to see the new man work. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The scheme interested his father, and was put into effect, the messages being written down and handed over for perusal. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I was experimenting, he says, on an automatic method of recording telegraph messages on a disk of paper laid on a revolving platen, exactly the same as the disk talking-machine of to-day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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