different between message vs libel

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)

1. A communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed.

   • I have a message from God unto thee.

2. An underlying theme or conclusion to be drawn from something.

3. (Britain, Ireland, chiefly in the plural) An errand.
4. (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)

1. 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.

2. To send (something) as a message; usually refers to electronic messaging.

   She messaged me the information yesterday.

   Please message the final report by fax.

3. (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.

4. (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)

1. 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.

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)

1. message

Derived terms

• messagero
• messageria

Norman

Noun

message m (plural messages)

1. 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)

1. message (form of communication)
2. 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
• ? 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)

1. message
2. (in plural) purchases, shopping

   go the messages - do one's shopping

English

Etymology

From Old French libelle, from Latin libellus (“petition”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: l??b?l, IPA^(key): /?la?b?l/
• Rhymes: -a?b?l

Noun

libel (countable and uncountable, plural libels)

1. (countable) A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation.
2. (uncountable) The act or crime of displaying such a statement publicly.
3. (countable) Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.
4. (law, countable) A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of their cause of action, and of the relief they seek.
   • 1873, United States Supreme Court, The Rio Grande, 86 U.S. 178,179

     These provisions of law being in force, the steamer Rio Grande, owned, as was alleged, by persons in Mexico, being in the port of Mobile, in the Southern District of Alabama, certain materialmen, on the 26th of November, 1867, filed separate libels against her in the district court for the said district.

5. (countable) A brief writing of any kind, especially a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

   • 1382–1395, John Wycliffe et al. (translators), Matthew verse 31

     a libel of forsaking [divorcement]

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:slander

Usage notes

In common usage, the noun and verb is particularly used where the defamatory writing meets the legal definition of libel in a particular jurisdiction.

Translations

Verb

libel (third-person singular simple present libels, present participle (UK) libelling or (US) libeling, simple past and past participle (UK) libelled or (US) libeled)

1. (transitive) To defame someone, especially in a manner that meets the legal definition of libel.

   He libelled her when he published that.
2. (law) To proceed against (a ship, goods, etc.) by filing a libel.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:defame

Translations

Derived terms

See also

• defamation
• defame
• slander

Anagrams

• Belli, I'll be, Ibell, Liebl

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?b?l/
• Hyphenation: li?bel
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin libella or libellula.

Noun

libel f (plural libellen, diminutive libelletje n)

1. dragonfly, insect of the infraorder Anisoptera
2. dragonfly or damselfly, insect of the order Odonata

Alternative forms

• libelle

Hyponyms

• (insect of the order Odonata): beekjuffer, breedscheenjuffer, pantserjuffer, waterjuffer, winterjuffer

Etymology 2

From Latin libellus, diminutive of liber (“book”).

Noun

libel n (plural libellen, diminutive libelletje n)

1. booklet, notably a libel (defamatory writing)

Synonyms

• schotschrift
• smaadschrift

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin libella.

Noun

libel f (plural libellen, diminutive libelletje n)

1. A vial of a level.

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]