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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.
message
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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 shopping
going 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)
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of message1
Idioms and Phrases
- 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.
More idioms and phrases containing message
see get the message .Example Sentences
Olivia's message read: "If you find my bottle please ring my granddad John."
With vastly different cricketing backgrounds and languages, she found ways to articulate her message to each player, showing patience and a desire to get to know them all.
They described their earlier times together as days of leaving post-it notes for each other rather than phone calls or modern-day text messages, and joked that time spent apart had helped them stay together.
It added: "Some of these messages explicitly mentioned payment for submitting to beatings."
On Monday, two individuals arrived at Lillian Street Elementary School’s main office and identified themselves as “representatives of a federal agency,†according to a message school officials sent to parents and others.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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