text message

text message

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noun
an electronic message sent over a cellular network from one cell phone to another by typing words, often in shortened form, as “l8t” for “late,” on the phone's numeric or QWERTY keypad.
Compare instant message (def. 1).
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Text message is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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text message
 
n
a written message sent by means of a mobile phone

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Main Entry:  text message
Part of Speech:  n
Definition:  any short electronically transmitted written message, esp. those sent to a handheld device such as a pager, PDA, cell phone
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