text message

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Noun

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textmessage(pluraltext messages)

  1. Abriefelectronicmessage sent betweenmobilephones.
    • 2011December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, inGuardian‎[1]:
      After the kitten had died, Robins sent atext messageto Knutton saying: "Remember the saying: 'What goes around comes around?' It has started already to bite you in the arse. The cat? Karma."
    • 2012December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, inThe Economist‎[2],volume405,number8813,page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
      A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part bytext messageand pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
    • 2018,James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, inEnglish World-Wide‎[3],page10:
      Similarly,Fingilishusually refers to transliterated Farsi in chatrooms,text messages,and the like.

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Verb

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textmessage(third-person singular simple presenttext messages,present participletext messaging,simple past and past participletext messaged)

  1. (transitiveorintransitive)Totransmitatext message.
    I told him totext messageyou when he's finished.
    Pleasetext messagethe directions to me.
    Justtext messageme the information.
    Stoptext messagingduring class time.
    She's beentext messagingall afternoon.

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Translations

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to transmit a text message—see alsosend,‎text message
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