texting
The use of a mobile phone to send text messages.
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. - 1915, Oscar George Sonneck, The...
Origin
Blend of text + messaging, derived from text messaging
Forms
Derived
double texting flexting multitexting predictive texting sexting sex-texting smexting
Verb
- present participle and gerund of text