texting
noun/ˈtɛkstɪŋ/
Etymology Blend of text + messaging, derived from text messaging
1
The use of a mobile phone to send text messages.
2
The words set to a piece of music.
- More typical (but still not numerous) are the textings supplied for Alleluias, or just as frequently for melismas occurring at the end of the second or third verse of Offertories.1915, Oscar George Sonneck, The Musical Quarterly, volume 52, page 198:
- Derived terms
- double texting, flexting, multitexting, predictive texting, sexting, sex-texting, smexting