messaging

[ mes-uh-jing ]

/ ˈmɛs ə dʒɪŋ /

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noun

a system or process of transmitting messages, especially electronically, by computer, telephone, television cable, etc.

Nearby words

message center, message stick, message switching, message unit, messager, messaging, messalian, messalina, messaline, messan, messapian

Origin of messaging

message + -ing¹

Definition for messaging (2 of 2)

message

[ mes-ij ]

/ ˈmɛs ɪdʒ /

noun

a communication containing some information, news, advice, request, or the like, sent by messenger, telephone, email, or other means.

an official communication, as from a chief executive to a legislative body: the president's message to Congress.

Digital Technology. a post or reply on an online message board.

the inspired utterance of a prophet or sage.

the point, moral, or meaning of a gesture, utterance, novel, motion picture, etc.

Computers. a warning, permission, etc., communicated by the system or software to the user: an error message; a message to allow blocked content.

verb (used without object)

to send a message, especially an electronic message.

verb (used with object)

to send (a person) a message.

to send as a message.

Origin of message

1250–1300; Middle English < Old French < Vulgar Latin *missāticum, equivalent to Latin miss(us) sent (past participle of mittere to send) + -āticum -age

Related formsin·ter·mes·sage, noun, adjective

Can be confusedmassage message

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Examples from the Web for messaging

In her newest EP Love Your Boyfriend, she takes the messaging of love songs and places it in an abrasive, sonic package.
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Forget about new candidates, more money, and better political “messaging.”
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This story is likely to be messaging a threat/intimidation from the effective coup in the US.
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But there is no credible data yet showing that the reach of ISIS messaging has diminished.
ISIS Is Winning the Online Jihad Against the West|Ali Fisher, Nico Prucha|October 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The site runs tremendously slowly, and its attempts to interact with members through a messaging platform have proven fruitless.
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Which occasions such negotiating, and messaging across the Oder, for the next six weeks, as—as shall be omitted in this place.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XX. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle

British Dictionary definitions for messaging (1 of 2)

messaging

/ (ˈmɛsɪdʒɪŋ) /

noun

the practice of sending and receiving written communications by computer or mobile phone

British Dictionary definitions for messaging (2 of 2)

message

/ (ˈmɛsɪdʒ) /

noun

a communication, usually brief, from one person or group to another

an implicit meaning or moral, as in a work of art

a formal communiqué

an inspired communication of a prophet or religious leader

a mission; errand

(plural) Scot shoppinggoing for the messages

get the message informal to understand what is meant

verb

(tr) to send as a message, esp to signal (a plan, etc)

Word Origin for message

C13: from Old French, from Vulgar Latin missāticum (unattested) something sent, from Latin missus, past participle of mittere to send

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Word Origin and History for messaging (1 of 3)

messaging

1865, verbal noun from message (v.).

Word Origin and History for messaging (1 of 3)

message

c.1300, "communication transmitted via a messenger," from Old French message "message, news, tidings, embassy" (11c.), from Medieval Latin missaticum, from Latin missus "a sending away, sending, despatching; a throwing, hurling," noun use of past participle of mittere "to send" (see mission). The Latin word is glossed in Old English by ærende. Specific religious sense of "divinely inspired communication via a prophet" (1540s) led to transferred sense of "the broad meaning (of something)," first attested 1828. To get the message "understand" is from 1960.

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