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message
A	noun
	1	message
			a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled; "he sent a three-word message"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚message ╚packet ╚telegram; wire ╚dedication; inscription ╚radiogram ╚phone message; telephone message ╚mail ╚heliogram ╚cipher; cypher ╚broadcast
	2	message, content, subject matter, substance
			what a communication that is about something is about
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚message, content, subject matter, substance ╚refusal ╚acknowledgment; acknowledgement ╚drivel; garbage ╚nonsense; bunk; nonsensicality; meaninglessness; hokum ╚meaning; significance; signification; import ╚digression; aside; excursus; divagation; parenthesis ╚subject; topic; theme ╚latent content ╚memorial ╚request; petition; postulation ╚reminder ╚corker ╚body
B	verb
	1	message
			send a message; "There is no messaging service at this company"
		Category Tree: act; move ╚interact ╚communicate ╚message
	2	message
			send as a message; "She messaged the final report by fax"
		Category Tree: move; displace ╚transfer ╚convey; transmit; communicate ╚communicate; pass on; pass; put across ╚message
	3	message
			send a message to; "She messaged the committee"
		Category Tree: move; displace ╚transfer ╚convey; transmit; communicate ╚communicate; pass on; pass; put across ╚message