messenger
IPA: mˈɛsʌndʒɝ
noun
- 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.
verb
- (transitive) To send something by messenger.
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Examples of "messenger" in Sentences
- The epistemologist was not a true messenger.
- Attack the messenger instead of the message.
- The credibility of the messenger is the issue.
- Shooting the messenger is intellectually weak.
- Mercury is the messenger of the gods in mythology.
- Muhammad is the last as the prophet and the messenger.
- Does the quality of the message depend on the messenger
- There is a confusion between the message and the messenger.
- The flaw is not with the messenger, the flaw is with the model.
- If the message is independent of the messenger, the messenger is off the hook.
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