messaging

[mes-uh-jing]

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noun

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

Origin of messaging

message + -ing¹

message

[mes-ij]

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.

Idioms

get the message, Informal. to understand or comprehend, especially to infer the correct meaning from circumstances, hints, etc.: If we don't invite him to the party, maybe he'll get the 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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Related Words for messaging

signify, omen, offer, predict, stop, betoken, forecast, herald, indicate, forebode, foretell, augur, message, portend, presage, foreshow

Examples from the Web for messaging

Contemporary Examples of messaging

In her newest EP Love Your Boyfriend, she takes the messaging of love songs and places it in an abrasive, sonic package.
From Church of Christ to Pansexual Rapper
Tyler Gillespie
November 28, 2014
Forget about new candidates, more money, and better political “messaging.”
How Democrats Can Recover
Will Marshall
November 9, 2014
This story is likely to be messaging a threat/intimidation from the effective coup in the US.
From ISIS to Ebola, What Has Made Naomi Wolf So Paranoid?
Michael Moynihan
October 11, 2014
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
The site runs tremendously slowly, and its attempts to interact with members through a messaging platform have proven fruitless.
ReaganBook Is the Latest Conservative #Fail
Gideon Resnick
July 31, 2014

Historical Examples of messaging

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

messaging

noun

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

message

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

1865, verbal noun from message (v.).

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.

message

"to send messages," 1580s, from message (n.). Related: Messaged; messaging.

Idioms and Phrases with messaging

message

see get the message.