texting

/ˈtɛkstɪŋ/

texting means the use of a mobile phone to send text messages. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 93 out of 100.

texting is pronounced /ˈtɛkstɪŋ/.

Etymology

Blend of text + messaging, derived from text messaging

noun

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

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Derived

double texting flexting multitexting predictive texting sexting sex-texting smexting

Often followed by

me each someone him

Often preceded by

proof phone sms mobile through

Near rhymes

begin extinct next of kin berlin ding din erwin