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[mes-ij] 
–noun
—Idiom| 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. |
| 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
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) n.
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
Mes"sage\ (?; 48), n. [F., fr. LL. missaticum, fr. L. mittere, missum, to send. See Mission, and cf. Messenger.]1. Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another. Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. --Judg. iii. 20. 2. Hence, specifically, an official communication, not made in person, but delivered by a messenger; as, the President's message. Message shell. See Shell.Message
Mes"sage\, v. t. To bear as a message. [Obs.]Message
Mes"sage\, n. [OE., fr. OF. message, fr. LL. missaticus. See 1st Message.] A messenger. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Language Translation for : message
Spanish:
mensaje, recado,
German:
die Mitteilung,
Japanese:
伝言
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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message
see get the message.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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