message
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)messages
- a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled“he sent a three-word message”Type of communicationKinds telegram, broadcast, mail, cipher, email message, radiogram, dedication, phone message, packet, sext +2 more
- content communicating a message; what something is aboutSynonyms: contentsubject mattersubstanceType of communicationKinds information, narrative, statement, meaning, subject, wit, proposal, guidance, request, direction +22 more
Verb (3)messages, messaged, messaging
- send a message to“She messaged the committee”More general communicate, pass onMore specific tweet, text
- send as a message“She messaged the final report by fax”More general communicate, pass on
- send a message“There is no messaging service at this company”More general communicate
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Translations
Noun communication, concept or information conveyed
- Spanish
- mensaje
- French
- message
- German
- Nachricht
- Italian
- messaggio
- Portuguese
- mensagem
- Turkish
- mesaj
- Russian
- сообще́ние soobščénije
- Arabic
- رِسَالَة risāla
- Chinese
- 消息 xiāoxi
- Japanese
- メッセージ messēji
36 more languages
- Dutch
- bericht
- Polish
- wiadomość
- Swedish
- meddelande
- Greek
- μήνυμα mínyma
- Korean
- 메시지 mesiji
- Indonesian
- pesan
- Vietnamese
- tin nhắn
- Hungarian
- üzenet
- Portuguese (PT)
- mensagem
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 訊息 xùnxī
- Albanian
- mesazh
- Breton
- kemennadenn
- Catalan
- missatge
- Corsican
- messaghju
- Czech
- zpráva
- Danish
- besked
- Esperanto
- mesaĝo
- Estonian
- sõnum
- Finnish
- viesti
- Georgian
- შეტყობინება šeṭq̇obineba
- Hebrew
- הוֹדָעָה hoda'á
- Icelandic
- skilaboð
- Kurdish
- peyam
- Latvian
- ziņa
- Lithuanian
- pranešimas
- Malagasy
- hafatra
- Norwegian
- melding
- Romanian
- mesaj
- Scottish Gaelic
- teachdaireachd
- Serbo-Croatian
- poruka
- Slovak
- správa
- Slovenian
- sporočilo
- Swahili
- ujumbe
- Walloon
- messaedje
- Welsh
- neges
- Yiddish
- מעלדונג meldung
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F., fr. LL. missaticum, fr. L. mittere, missum, to send. See Mission, and cf. Messenger.
1. Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another.
Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee.— Judg. iii. 20.
2. Hence, specifically, an official communication, not made in person, but delivered by a messenger; as, the President's message.
Message shell. See Shell.
To bear as a message. obsolete
Origin: OE., fr. OF. message, fr. LL. missaticus. See 1st Message.
A messenger. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
In object-oriented programming sending a message to an object (to invoke a method) is equivalent to calling a procedure in traditional programming languages, except that the actual code executed may only be selected at run time depending on the class of the object. Thus, in response to the message "drawSelf", the method code invoked would be different if the target object were a circle or a square.
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