texting

English

Etymology

Blend of text +‎ messaging, derived from text messaging

Verb

texting

present participle and gerund of text

Noun

texting (countable and uncountable, plural textings)

The use of a mobile phone to send text messages.
The words set to a piece of music.
- 1915, Oscar George Sonneck, The Musical Quarterly, volume 52, page 198:
  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.

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Translations

Translations

Afrikaans: SMS (af)
Norman: textéthie f
Spanish: textear (es), mandar texto, textar, escribir texto

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