messenger
a person who carries a message or goes on an errand for another, especially as a matter of duty or business.
a person employed to convey official dispatches or to go on other official or special errands: a bank messenger.
Nautical.
a rope or chain made into an endless belt to pull on an anchor cable or to drive machinery from some power source, as a capstan or winch.
a light line by which a heavier line, as a hawser, can be pulled across a gap between a ship and a pier, a buoy, another ship, etc.
Oceanography. a brass weight sent down a line to actuate a Nansen bottle or other oceanographic instrument.
Archaic. a herald, forerunner, or harbinger.
to send by messenger.
Origin of messenger
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How to use messenger in a sentence
The first attempt to use synthetic messenger RNA to make an animal produce a protein was in 1990.
The next act for messenger RNA could be bigger than covid vaccines | David Rotman | February 5, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewThe company uses software developed by another bicycle messenger company that can be tied directly to many restaurants’ online ordering platforms.
Restaurants Avoiding Big Delivery Apps Have to Get Creative | Kristen Hawley | February 1, 2021 | EaterWe saw this as an extension of our role as public health messengers.
People are fed up with broken vaccine appointment tools — so they’re building their own | Tanya Basu | February 1, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewSSRIs increase levels of the chemical messenger serotonin in the brain.
The antidepressant fluvoxamine could keep mild COVID-19 from worsening | Esther Landhuis | February 1, 2021 | Science NewsLike the Pfizer-BioNTech shot, it uses messenger RNA technology that teaches the body’s cells to fight off infection.
No direct link between the COVID vaccine and a recent string of deaths in the elderly, Norway finds | Katherine Dunn | January 18, 2021 | Fortune
Even an imperfect messenger is capable of delivering news everyone needs to hear.
Bill Cosby Foe Hannibal Buress Joked About Date Rape | Rich Goldstein | November 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs important as the messenger is here, the message—jobs—is even more so.
I hate to use “passion project,” but Kill the messenger does seem like just that for you.
Jeremy Renner Opens Up About Marriage, His Problems with the Media, and the Future of Hawk-Eye | Marlow Stern | September 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn between the blockbusters, the 43-year-old managed to slip in Kill the messenger.
Jeremy Renner Opens Up About Marriage, His Problems with the Media, and the Future of Hawk-Eye | Marlow Stern | September 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere had already been a documentary on the case that aimed to do just that, as if killing the messenger would mute the message.
What It's Like to Watch Kate Beckinsale Play You in a Movie | Barbie Latza Nadeau | September 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe voice is the most potent influence of expression, the winged messenger between soul and soul.
Expressive Voice Culture | Jessie Eldridge SouthwickIt occurs commonly enough in the Royal Wardrobe Accounts, and means simply "a messenger."
When the three were at last alone, she paused before opening the letter and turned again to the messenger.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniHe did not have to wait very long until a man in the garb of a telegraph messenger came up the street.
The messenger looked both ways and finally turned up that sidewalk between the two tenements.
British Dictionary definitions for messenger
/ (ˈmɛsɪndʒə) /
a person who takes messages from one person or group to another or others
a person who runs errands or is employed to run errands
a carrier of official dispatches; courier
nautical
a light line used to haul in a heavy rope
an endless belt of chain, rope, or cable, used on a powered winch to take off power
archaic a herald
Origin of messenger
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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