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名詞

text message (plural text messages)

1. A brief electronic message sent between mobile phones.

   Synonym: text

   • 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian‎:

     After the kitten had died, Robins sent a text message to Knutton saying: "Remember the saying: 'What goes around comes around?' It has started already to bite you in the arse. The cat? Karma."

   • 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist‎, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):

     A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.

   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎, page 10:

     Similarly, Fingilish usually refers to transliterated Farsi in chatrooms, text messages, and the like.

派生語

• sex-text, sext
• text messaging
• texting

動詞

text message (third-person singular simple present text messages, present participle text messaging, simple past and past participle text messaged)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To transmit a text message.

   I told him to text message you when he's finished.

   Please text message the directions to me.

同意語

• text
• message
• SMS (outside the US/UK)