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mes⋅sage

  [mes-ij]
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–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)   
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.
  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. mes·saged, mes·sag·ing, mes·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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