messenger

IPA: mˈɛsʌndʒɝ

One who brings messages.
The secretary bird.
The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).
(law) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge of the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.
(computing) An instant messenger program.
(figurative) A forerunner or harbinger.
A light scudding cloud preceding a storm.
A piece of paper, etc., blown up a string to a kite.
(nautical) A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.
(oceanography) A weight dropped down a line to close a Nansen bottle.
(Scotland) A messenger-at-arms.
(bowling) A pin which travels across the pin deck to knock over another pin, usually for a strike.
A surname originating as an occupation for a messenger.

Examples of "messenger" in Sentences

Kill the messenger is also SOP in the Cheney administration.
Attacking the messenger is a lot easier than refuting the facts.
Shoot the messenger is a real problem and some might fear for their employment or future employment.
Attacking the messenger is the oldest and saddest trick in the book for people who have no positive message.
Your habit of shooting the messenger is therefore happily confined to metaphor. on July 29, 2009 at 9: 00 am Finger Moose
If so, that would sound like a violation of federal civil rights laws - denying the ad based on the fact the messenger is a church.
Also, the built-in messenger is nice, and I LOVE the fact that you can use it to SMS, and not just in the US, but here in India as well.
“By αγγελος, angel [or messenger], we are to understand the _messenger_, or person sent by God to preside over the church; and to him the epistle is directed, not as pointing out his state, but the state of the church under his care.
The sermon, recorded some time ago, talks about assassinating those who have “defamed” the Prophet Mohammed – citing one religious authority as saying “Harming Allah and his messenger is a reason to encourage Muslims to kill whoever doesthat.”
The Jewish writers run into gross absurdities to evade the conviction of this evidence; some of them say that this messenger is the angel of death, who shall take the wicked out of this life, to be sent into hell torments; others of them say that it is