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message
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French message, from Late Latin missaticum, from Latin mittere, missum (“to send”). Displaced native Old English ærende which is survived in English errand.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?s?d??/
- Hyphenation: mes?sage
Noun
message (plural messages)
- A communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed.
- I have a message from God unto thee.
- An underlying theme or conclusion to be drawn from something.
- (Britain, Ireland, chiefly in the plural) An errand.
- (Ireland, Scotland, Northern England) See messages (“groceries, shopping”).
Abbreviations
- msg
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: mesej
- ? Gulf Arabic: ???? (m?sij, “short electronic message”)
- ? German: Message
- ? Japanese: ????? (mess?ji)
- ? Korean: ??? (mesiji)
- ? Malay: mesej
- ? Russian: ???????? (m??ss?dž)
Translations
References
- message on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
message (third-person singular simple present messages, present participle messaging, simple past and past participle messaged)
- To send a message to; to transmit a message to, e.g. as text via a cell phone.
- Just message me for directions.
- I messaged her about the concert.
- To send (something) as a message; usually refers to electronic messaging.
- She messaged me the information yesterday.
- Please message the final report by fax.
- (intransitive) To send a message or messages; to be capable of sending messages.
- We've implemented a new messaging service.
- The runaway computer program was messaging non-stop.
- (obsolete) To bear as a message.
Synonyms
- (send a text message to): text
See also
- instant message
- instant messaging
- messenger
- mission
Anagrams
- megasse
French
Etymology
From Old French message, from Late Latin missaticum, from Latin mitto, mittere (“to send”), missum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me.sa?/, /m?.sa?/
Noun
message m (plural messages)
- message
- 1928, André Breton, Nadja
- Un journal du matin suffira toujours à me donner de mes nouvelles : X . . . ., 26 décembre. - L'opérateur chargé de la station de télégraphie sans fil située à l' Île du Sable, a capté un fragment de message qui aurait été lancé dimanche soir à telle heure par le . . . . Le message disait notamment : « Il y a quelque chose qui ne va pas » mais il n'indiquait pas la position de l'avion à ce moment, et, par suite de très mauvaises conditions atmosphériques et des interférences qui se produisaient, l'opérateur n'a pu comprendre aucune autre phrase, ni entrer de nouveau en communication. Le message était transmis sur une longueur d'onde de 625 mètres ; d'autre part, étant donné la force de réception, l'opérateur a cru pouvoir localiser l'avion dans un rayon de 80 kilomètres autour de l' Île du Sable.
- A morning paper will always be adequate to give me my news : X . . ., December 26 -- The radio operator on the Ile du Sable has received a fragment of a message sent Sunday evening at such and such an hour by the . . . . The message said, in particular : "There is something which is not working" but failed to indicate the position of the plane at this moment, and due to extremely bad atmospheric conditions and static, the operator was unable to understand any further sentence, nor to make communication again. The message was transmitted on a wave length of 625 meters ; moreover given the strength of the reception, the operator states he can localize the plane within a radius of 50 miles around the Ile du Sable.
- Un journal du matin suffira toujours à me donner de mes nouvelles : X . . . ., 26 décembre. - L'opérateur chargé de la station de télégraphie sans fil située à l' Île du Sable, a capté un fragment de message qui aurait été lancé dimanche soir à telle heure par le . . . . Le message disait notamment : « Il y a quelque chose qui ne va pas » mais il n'indiquait pas la position de l'avion à ce moment, et, par suite de très mauvaises conditions atmosphériques et des interférences qui se produisaient, l'opérateur n'a pu comprendre aucune autre phrase, ni entrer de nouveau en communication. Le message était transmis sur une longueur d'onde de 625 mètres ; d'autre part, étant donné la force de réception, l'opérateur a cru pouvoir localiser l'avion dans un rayon de 80 kilomètres autour de l' Île du Sable.
- 1928, André Breton, Nadja
Derived terms
- messager
- messagerie
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: mesaj
- ? Albanian: mesazh
- ? Azerbaijani: mesaj
- ? Moroccan Arabic: ?????? (mesaž)
- ? Romanian: mesaj
- ? Turkish: mesaj
Related terms
- mettre
Further reading
- “message” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Interlingua
Etymology
Old French message, see above.
Noun
message (plural messages)
- message
Derived terms
- messagero
- messageria
Norman
Noun
message m (plural messages)
- Alternative form of m'sage
Old French
Alternative forms
- mesage, messaige
Etymology
From Late Latin missaticum, from Classical Latin missum, the supine of mitt?
Noun
message m (oblique plural messages, nominative singular messages, nominative plural message)
- message (form of communication)
- messenger
Derived terms
- messagier
Related terms
- metre
Descendants
- Middle French: message
- French: message
- Haitian Creole: mesaj
- ? Albanian: mesazh
- ? Azerbaijani: mesaj
- ? Moroccan Arabic: ?????? (mesaž)
- ? Romanian: mesaj
- ? Turkish: mesaj
- Norman: m'sage, message
- French: message
- ? English: message
- Tok Pisin: mesej
- ? Gulf Arabic: ???? (m?sij, “short electronic message”)
- ? German: Message
- ? Japanese: ????? (mess?ji)
- ? Korean: ??? (mesiji)
- ? Malay: mesej
- ? Russian: ???????? (m??ss?dž)
- ? Galician: mensaxe
- ? Italian: messaggio
- ? Portuguese: mensagem
- ? Scots: message
- ? Spanish: mensaje
Scots
Etymology
Old French message, see above.
Noun
message (plural messages)
- message
- (in plural) purchases, shopping
- go the messages - do one's shopping
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account
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?.?ka?nt/
- Rhymes: -a?nt
- Hyphenation: ac?count
Etymology 1
From Middle English account, acounte, accounten, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin comput? (“to sum up”).
Noun
account (plural accounts)
- (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. [from c. 1300]
- (banking) A bank account.
- 1910, Journal of the American Bankers Association Vol. XI, No. 1, American Bankers Association, page 3:
- The Pueblo bank has advised that the operator opened an account at that bank with currency, and a few days later withdrew the amount.
- 1910, Journal of the American Bankers Association Vol. XI, No. 1, American Bankers Association, page 3:
- A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
- Synonyms: accounting, explanation
- A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
- A record of events; a relation or narrative. [from c. 1610]
- Synonyms: narrative, narration, relation, recital, report, description, explanation
- 1657, James Howell, Londonopolis: An Historical Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London
- A laudible account of the city of London.
- An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
- Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
- Synonyms: membership, registration
- Meronym: username
- (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
- Profit; advantage.
Usage notes
- Abbreviations: (business): A/C, a/c, acct., acc.
- Account, narrative, narration, recital are all words applied to different modes of rehearsing a series of events
- Account turns attention not so much to the speaker as to the fact related, and more properly applies to the report of some single event, or a group of incidents taken as whole; for example, a vivid account of a battle, of a shipwreck, of an anecdote, etc.
- A narrative is a continuous story of connected incidents, such as one friend might tell to another; for example, a narrative of the events of a siege, a narrative of one's life, the narrative of the film etc.
- Narration is usually the same as narrative, but is sometimes used to describe the mode of relating events; as, his powers of narration are uncommonly great.
- Recital denotes a series of events drawn out into minute particulars, usually expressing something which peculiarly interests the feelings of the speaker; such as, the recital of one's wrongs, disappointments, sufferings, etc, a piano recital (played without sheet music), a recital of a poem (learned by heart).
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ????? (akaunto)
- ? Swahili: akaunti
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old French acounter, accomptere et al., from a- + conter (“to count”)). Compare count.
Verb
account (third-person singular simple present accounts, present participle accounting, simple past and past participle accounted)
- To provide explanation.
- (obsolete, transitive) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. [14th-17th c.]
- (intransitive, now rare) To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described). [from 14th c.]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deem
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, III.8:
- The Pagan Hercules, why was he accounted a hero?
- (intransitive) To consider that. [from 14th c.]
- Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. [from 15th c.]
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. [from 16th c.]
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. [from 16th c.]
- (intransitive) To establish the location for someone. [from 19th c.]
- (intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for). [from 19th c.]
- To count.
- (transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). [from 14th c.]
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
- neither the motion of the Moon, whereby moneths are computed; nor of the Sun, whereby years are accounted, consisteth of whole numbers, but admits of fractions, and broken parts, as we have already declared concerning the Moon.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
- (obsolete) To count (up), enumerate. [14th-17th c.]
- (obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.). [14th-16th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
- Long worke it were / Here to account the endlesse progeny / Of all the weeds that bud and blossome there [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
- (transitive, now rare) To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). [from 14th c.]
Derived terms
Translations
Related terms
- accountable
- accountant
Further reading
- account on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- account (bookkeeping) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- account at OneLook Dictionary Search
- account in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English account.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??k?u?nt/
- Hyphenation: ac?count
Noun
account n (plural accounts, diminutive accountje n)
- a subscription to an electronic service
Related terms
- accountant
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: akun
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English account. Doublet of conto.
Noun
account m (invariable)
- (computing) account
- Synonym: conto
Further reading
- account in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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