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texting

verb
/ˈtɛkstɪŋ/

Etymology

Blend of text + messaging, derived from text messaging

  1. derived from *meyth₂-✻ — “to exchange”
  2. derived from mitto — “send”
  3. derived from missāticum
  4. derived from message
  5. inherited from message
  6. suffixed as messaging — “message + ing”
  7. compounded as texting — “text + messaging”

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of text

  2. The use of a mobile phone to send text messages.

  3. The words set to a piece of music.

    • More typical (but still not numerous) are the textings supplied for Alleluias, or just as frequently for melismas occurring at the end of the second or third verse of Offertories.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for texting. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA