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mes·sage

[mes-ij] Pronunciation Key

–noun

1.	a communication containing some information, news, advice, request, or the like, sent by messenger, radio, telephone, or other means.

2.	an official communication, as from a chief executive to a legislative body: the President's message to Congress.

3.	the inspired utterance of a prophet or sage.

4.	Computers. one or more words taken as a unit.

5.	the point, moral, or meaning of a gesture, utterance, novel, motion picture, etc.

—Idiom

6.	get the message, Informal. to understand or comprehend, esp. to infer the correct meaning from circumstances, hints, etc.: If we don't invite him to the party, maybe he'll get the message.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME < OF < VL *missāticum, equiv. to L miss(us) sent (ptp. of mittere to send) + -āticum -age

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mes·sage (měs'ĭj) Pronunciation Key
n.

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.
A statement made or read before a gathering: a retiring coach's farewell message.
A basic thesis or lesson; a moral: a play with a message.

v. tr. mes·saged, mes·sag·ing, mes·sag·es

To send a message to.
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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message

1297, "communication transmitted via a messenger," from O.Fr. message, from M.L. missaticum, from L. missus, pp. of mittere "to send." The L. word is glossed in O.E. by ærende. Specific religious sense of "divinely inspired communication via a prophet" (1546) let to transf. sense of "the broad meaning (of something)," first attested 1828. To get the message "understand" is from 1964.

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message
noun
1.	a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled; "he sent a three-word message"
2.	what a communication that is about something is about
verb
1.	send a message to; "She messaged the committee"
2.	send as a message; "She messaged the final report by fax"
3.	send a message; "There is no messaging service at this company"

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message

see get the message.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

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message
In object-oriented programming sending a message to an object (to invoke a method) is equivalent to calling a procedure in traditional programming languages, except that the actual code executed may only be selected at run time depending on the class of the object. Thus, in response to the message "drawSelf", the method code invoked would be different if the target object were a circle or a square.
(1995-02-16)