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texting en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈtɛkstɪŋ/

Etymology

Blend of text + messaging, derived from text messaging

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The use of a mobile phone to send text messages.
  2. (countable, uncountable) 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. 1915, Oscar George Sonneck, The Musical Quarterly, volume 52, page 198:

Forms

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textings Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

sexting · sex-texting · smexting · flexting · double texting · multitexting · predictive texting

Translations (7)

es mandar texto (Translations) · es textear (Translations) · af SMS (Translations) · es escribir texto (Translations) · de Simsen (Translations) · nrf textéthie (Translations) · es textar (Translations)

texting en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈtɛkstɪŋ/

Etymology

Blend of text + messaging, derived from text messaging

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of text
    form of text