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text message

text message noun: a brief electronic message sent between mobile phones.

Noun

text message (plural text messages)

  1. A brief electronic message sent between mobile phones.
    • After the kitten had died, Robins sent a text message to Knutton saying: "Remember the saying: 'What goes around comes around?' It has started already to bite you in the arse. The cat? Karma."2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian
    • A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and 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.2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly)
    Synonyms:
    text

Verb

text message (third-person singular simple present text messages, present participle text messaging, simple past and past participle text messaged)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To transmit a text message.
    • I told him to text message you when he's finished.
    • Please text message the directions to me.
    Synonyms:
    text, message, SMS

text message meaning in Hindi, Arabic, Persian and Vietnamese

text message in Hindi

to transmit a text message — see also send, text, message
तेक्स्ट करने teksṭ karne

text message in Arabic

a brief electronic message
رِسَالَة risāla, رِسَالَة إِس إِم إِس risālat ʔes ʔem ʔes, مِيسِيج mīsij

text message in Persian

a brief electronic message
پیامک payâmak

text message in Vietnamese

a brief electronic message
tin nhắn văn bản, nhắn tin

Synonyms of text message

Forms of text message

Noun
pluraltext messages
Verb
third-person singular presenttext messages
present participletext messaging
past participletext messaged
pasttext messaged

Words formed from text message

Questions about text message

What does text message mean?
Text message means a brief electronic message sent between mobile phones.
What is text message in Hindi?
Text message in Hindi is तेक्स्ट करने (teksṭ karne). See Text message meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is text message?
Text message can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of text message?
The plural of text message is text messages.

Words near text message in the dictionary

  1. text hookers
  2. text hooks
  3. text linguistics
  4. text link
  5. text links
  6. text message
  7. text messaged
  8. text messages
  9. text messaging
  10. text neck
  11. text painting

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