texting

English

Etymology

Blend of text +‎ messaging, derived from text messaging

Verb

texting

present participle 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.

Derived terms

Translations

Translations

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

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