different between message vs missile

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 Latin missilis (“that may be thrown”), neuter missile (“a weapon to be thrown, a javelin”), in plural missilia (“presents thrown among the people by the emperors”), from mittere (“to send”). From 1611. Compare Middle French missile (“projectile”), from 1636.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: m?s??l, IPA^(key): /?m?sa?l/
• (US, Canada) enPR: m?s??l, m?s??l, IPA^(key): /?m?sa?l/, /?m?s?l/
• Rhymes: -?sa?l, -?s?l

Noun

missile (plural missiles)

1. Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet. [from 17th c.]

   The Rhodians, who used leaden bullets, were able to project their missiles twice as far as the Persian slingers, who used large stones.

2. (military) A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched. [from 20th c.]

   That missile is explosive enough to kill hundreds.

Derived terms

• missileer

Related terms

• mess
• message
• messenger
• mission
• missionary
• missive

Translations

See also

• projectile
• rocket

Further reading

• missile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• missile in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Missile”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 540, column 3.

Anagrams

• mislies, similes, slimies, smilies

French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Latin missilis (“that may be thrown”) (as in English).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.sil/

Noun

missile m (plural missiles)

1. missile

Derived terms

• missile à tête chercheuse

Further reading

• “missile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mis.si.le/
• Rhymes: -issile

Noun

missile m (plural missili)

1. missile

Adjective

missile (plural missili)

1. (relational) missile

Latin

Etymology

From missilis.

Noun

missile n (genitive missilis); third declension

1. a thrown weapon, such as a javelin
2. (plural) presents from the Emperor thrown to the people
3. (New Latin) a missile (self-propelled projectile)
   • 2018, Tuomo Pekkanen, Foederatio occidentalis Syriam missilibus percussit [1], Nuntii Latini 20.4.2018:

     USA, Britannia, Francia mane Sabbati plus centum missilia in tres metas Syriacas miserunt, in quibus arma chemica conficiebantur et tractabantur.

     The US, UK, and France Saturday morning fired over a hundred missiles at three Syrian sites in which chemical weapons were being built and stored.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Synonyms

• (javelin): t?lum, iaculum

Adjective

missile

1. nominative neuter singular of missilis
2. accusative neuter singular of missilis
3. vocative neuter singular of missilis

References

• missilis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• missilis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• missile in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette