message

(mĕs'ĭj)
n.

1. 1. A usually short communication transmitted by words, signals, or other means from one person, station, or group to another.
   2. The substance of such a communication; the point or points conveyed: gestured to a waiter, who got the message and brought the bill.
2. A statement made or read before a gathering: a retiring coach's farewell message.
3. A basic thesis or lesson; a moral: a play with a message.

v.tr., -saged, -sag·ing, -sag·es.

1. To send a message to.
2. To send as a message: messaged the report by cable.

v.intr.
To send a message; communicate.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin missāticum, from Latin missus, past participle of mittere, to send.]

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(1) An e-mail that contains text and possibly other file attachments. See e-mail.

(2) Any set of transmitted data. Just as a program becomes a job when it runs in the computer, data becomes a message when it is transmitted over a network.

(3) In object technology, communicating between objects, similar to a function call in traditional programming.

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Primary element of the communication process, consisting of the information passed from the communicator to the receiver, such as the message of a television commercial or magazine advertisement. For example, the message of an aspirin commercial is usually that the product will relieve pain quicker than other products.

Marshall McLuhan's phrase "The medium is the message" illustrates his thinking that the medium that delivers a message impacts how a message is perceived. For example, an advertisement appearing in the New York Times may be perceived as more credible than an identical ad in a small local newspaper.

noun

1. Something communicated, as information: communication, word. See words.
2. That which is signified by a word or expression: acceptation, connotation, denotation, import, intent, meaning, purport, sense, significance, significancy, signification, value. See meaning.

(DOD) Any thought or idea expressed briefly in a plain or secret language and prepared in a form suitable for transmission by any means of communication.

IN BRIEF: A piece of news or a request sent from one person to another. Also: An important idea that a writer or artist is trying to bring to people.

Dogs come when they're called. Cats take a message and get back to you. — Mary Bly

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Any thought or idea expressed briefly in a plain, coded, or secret language and is prepared in a form suitable for transmission by any means of communication.

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1. a specific piece of information, or something containing information, that is transmitted from a donor to a recipient by some means or agent.
2. a jargon term used, sometimes without an article, as the name of a substance, to denote the particular messenger RNA (mRNA) of interest in a specified context, or any preparation containing that mRNA.
3. the segment of mRNA (or any particular segment of a polycistronic mRNA) that consists of a sequence of codons carrying the information determining the sequence of amino-acid residues of a specific polypeptide to be synthesized at a ribosome.
4. the part of the information contained within the amino-acid sequence of a hormonal polypeptide, or of its biosynthetic precursors, that elicits a specific physiological response to the hormone. Compare address (def. 2).

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - meddelelse
v. tr. - sende en besked til, signalere
v. intr. - sende en besked, kommunikere

idioms:

• message box    meddelelsesboks

Nederlands (Dutch)
boodschap, bericht, onderliggend idee, een boodschap sturen

Français (French)
n. - (gén, Relig, Pol) message, (faire une) course (arch), (faire les) courses
v. tr. - envoyer un message à, envoyer comme message
v. intr. - envoyer un message, communiquer

idioms:

• get the message    comprendre, piger (fam)
• message box    (Comput) zone de message

Deutsch (German)
n. - Nachricht, Mitteilung, Aussage, Botschaft
v. - melden, ankündigen

idioms:

• get the message    verstehen, es schnallen (salopp)
• message box    Nachrichtenksten

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μήνυμα, μαντάτο, παραγγελία, διάγγελμα, είδηση

idioms:

• message box    (Η/Υ) θυρίδα μηνυμάτων

Italiano (Italian)
comunicato, annuncio

Português (Portuguese)
n. - mensagem (f)

Русский (Russian)
сообщение, официальное послание, поручение, проповедь, посылать сообщение, телеграфировать

Español (Spanish)
n. - mensaje, recado, aviso, noticia, comunicación
v. tr. - redactar o difundir un mensaje
v. intr. - redactar o difundir un mensaje

idioms:

• get the message    captar el mensaje, entender
• message box    buzón, casilla de mensajes

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - meddelande, telegram, ärende

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
消息, 讯息, 通讯, 通知, 带信息

idioms:

• message box    信息信箱

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 消息, 訊息, 通訊
v. tr. - 通知
v. intr. - 帶訊息

idioms:

• message box    信息信箱

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 전언, 교훈, 용무
v. tr. - 교신하다
v. intr. - 신호를 주다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 伝言, 通信, メッセージ, 教書, お告げ, 神託, 意図, 教訓

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) رساله‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮הודעה, מסר, בשורה, שדר‬
v. tr. - ‮שיגר מסר, מסר הודעה, שידר שדר‬
v. intr. - ‮שיגר מסר, תקשר‬

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