text message
verb1
To transmit a text message.
- I told him to text message you when he's finished.
- Please text message the directions to me.
text message
noun1
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):
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- Similarly, Fingilish usually refers to transliterated Farsi in chatrooms, text messages, and the like.2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 10:
- Derived terms
- sex-text, sext, text messaging, texting