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Messages are communications sent from one person or system to another.
The word covers everything from handwritten notes to texts to voicemails: I left you three messages.
In computing, messages are data packets exchanged between programs or devices.
To get the message is to understand what someone means, even if unstated: After being ignored twice, she got the message.
Digital written communication
- textWritten or printed words
- SMSMobile text protocol
- voicemailRecorded caller messages
- DMPrivate digital correspondence
chat · letter · note · postcard · telegram · fax · memo · correspondence
Exchange of spoken ideas
- dialogueSpoken exchange between parties
- back-and-forthAlternating reciprocal motion
- correspondenceExchanged written communication
- threadFiber for stitching
reply · response · banter · chat · discourse · communique · missive · dispatch
Flag-based signaling system
- smoke-signalVisible airborne message system
- beaconGuiding light source
- flareSudden bright burst
- drumbeatRhythmic percussion sound
carrier-pigeon · runner · telegraph · blinker · SOS · whistles · skywriting
Brief public announcement
- broadcastTransmitted media signal
- alertWarning or watchfulness
- noticeBecome aware of
- notificationFormal notice given
advisory · communique · dispatch · update · circular · memo · newsflash · headline
Digital written communication
DM · chat · letter · note · postcard · telegram · fax · memo · correspondence · reply
conversation
Exchange of spoken ideas
- dialogueSpoken exchange between parties
- back-and-forthAlternating reciprocal motion
- correspondenceExchanged written communication
thread · reply · response · banter · chat · discourse · communique · missive · dispatch · tête-à-tête
semaphore
Flag-based signaling system
- smoke-signalVisible airborne message system
- beaconGuiding light source
- flareSudden bright burst
drumbeat · carrier-pigeon · runner · telegraph · blinker · SOS · whistles · skywriting
bulletin
Brief public announcement
notification · advisory · communique · dispatch · update · circular · memo · newsflash · headline · briefing
sermon
Clergy's worship address
revelation · parable · commandment · blessing · prayer · homily · doctrine · testament · epistle · psalm
lesson
Unit of teaching
point · subtext · implication · significance · insight · wisdom · symbolism · allegory · import · gist
- informationdata, facts, details, knowledge, intel
- appsapps, browser, software, calculator, calendar
- smartphonesSamsung, smartphone, cellphone, Google, mobile phone
- correspondenceletters, letter, handwritten letters, family letters, missives
- preloaded appscalculator, calendar, camera app, clock, contacts
- Things that spreaddiseases, infections, viruses, bacteria, germs
messagessilence
Total lack of sound
radio silence · no contact · blackout · unresponsiveness · incommunicado
- text messageBrief electronic communication
- get the messageComprehend unspoken meaning
- mixed messagesInconsistent, contradictory communication
- secret messageCovert transmitted information
- text messagingPhone-based written communication
- got the message