noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a message of hate
▪ White nationalists are using the media to preach a message of hate.
a message/letter of sympathy
▪ We are grateful for all the messages of sympathy we have received.
an email message
▪ I can send email messages on my phone.
an underlying message
▪ The underlying message of his speech was that the economic good times are over.
an urgent message
▪ I have an urgent message for Sam – where is he?
coded message
▪ He sent a coded message to CIA headquarters.
contradictory messages/statements/demands etc
▪ The public is being fed contradictory messages about the economy.
convey a message (=express an important idea – used about books, films, art etc)
▪ Do you think the poem conveys a message about society?
instant messaging
▪ instant messaging services
message board
message drummed into
▪ ‘Don’t talk to strangers’ is a message drummed into children.
multimedia messaging
picture messaging
subliminal message
▪ a subliminal message
text message
text message
▪ She’s always text messaging her friends.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clear
▪ Sue's boss was angry; he says it sends a clear message to criminals.
▪ His clear message: Trade is good.
▪ They believe that it would benefit both children and parents if a clear message were given.
▪ Stuck in two new polls behind frontrunner Bob Dole and two insurgent candidates with clear ideological messages, Texas Sen.
▪ One of the clearest messages from our Cellulite Roadshow was lack of motivation scuppered most peoples plans.
▪ Capital punishment does send out one reasonably clear social message.
▪ The clear and simple message contained in the Samuel case has, however, been diluted.
▪ That is certainly a clear message about the power of tradition, even when it is biased and oppressive.
important
▪ This extract contains important messages for teachers.
▪ Finally, the most important message we give is that the client try it.
▪ At times the real story, the important message, was being completely lost.
▪ It means that you have an important message.
▪ These are the seven most important sound messages made by domestic cats.
▪ They were unable to convey the single most important message: &038;.
▪ The most important message is that we should rely much more on men to parent than we presently do.
political
▪ But whereas calypso now only rarely contains a political message reggae almost always does.
▪ Some also fear that political or ideological messages benefiting business could find their way into the curriculum.
▪ To be effective, a political message should be very simple.
▪ To say that long-term success depends on more structural reform and more austerity is not a comfortable political message.
▪ However, there are situations where face-to-face communication is not the preferred medium for a political message.
▪ Thus the political message of local elections provides another motive for ministers to deny their importance.
▪ Radio and television have enabled political messages to reach mass populations.
urgent
▪ He wasn't all that sorry to find an urgent message from Headquarters that meant leaving the glutinous pasta.
▪ This is an urgent message for Celestine Price.
▪ There is no pattern to the way they bring their urgent message.
▪ The amazonian flow of colors, signals, urgent messages that had been besieging their brains since birth evaporated.
▪ He - er - received an urgent message to return to his yacht.
▪ I've a very urgent message for you from Mr Norris.
▪ Example 3 An urgent message is received for a guest, Mrs Jones.
▪ I was present when he left the hotel last evening after an urgent message recalling him to Osborne House.
■ NOUN
error
▪ If you return to this field, an error message is displayed at the foot of the screen.
▪ Many who signed on later in the day were turned away with blank screens or error messages.
▪ CorelDRAW can still bring up those strange Waldo error messages when you're using the Blend option.
▪ Write down any error messages you see, no matter how cryptic.
▪ Because a single stack is used, the following error messages do not exist.
▪ We got an error message, indicating there was no dial tone.
▪ It doesn't come up with irrational error messages and it's nice and simple to use.
▪ If the information entered into any field is invalid, an error message will be displayed at the foot of the page.
mail
▪ The submitter also receives an additional mail message if the package has been denied, giving the reason for approval being denied.
▪ Please read the specified mail message for more information on the error.
▪ If the entry is blank, the mail message has not been inspected.
▪ If all the above conditions are met, the new user will be notified by way of a mail message.
▪ Once you have requested the package be prepared for approval, wait for the mail message telling you that it is ready.
▪ You will receive a mail message confirming the outcome of the approval.
▪ The lower field displays the current page number of this mail message.
▪ You may print either a subset or all of your oldest 16 mail messages.
telephone
▪ They remain friends, though she is quick to be petulant over telephone messages left unanswered and favours left undone.
▪ Attorneys for Sheik Sultan did not return telephone messages left at their offices on Wednesday.
▪ Army bomb disposal experts scoured the city for 5 hours, after receiving a coded telephone message.
▪ An estimated 1, 000 to 2, 000 households were alerted by a computerized telephone message.
▪ There is the added machismo of breaking the law. Telephone messages that have to be carried out in code.
▪ Peter Gass, an attorney for Lundwall, did not return telephone messages seeking comment.
▪ Desks were littered with yards of wire stories, celebrity bulletins, picture handouts, telephone messages, and empty coffee cups.
▪ The telephone messages had already prepared him for some of the problems.
text
▪ He shows her a text message sent by Emily asking how the field trip is going.
▪ If the software detects unusual activity on an account, it will send a text message to the mobile phone.
▪ However, the spokesman said it will contact the body before any text messages are sent out.
▪ Amnesty International is also harnessing text messages to apply speedy pressure on governments to release political prisoners.
▪ Almost all users sent and received text messages.
warning
▪ Such reservations include a warning message, flagging of the citing field or a setting of the citing field to null.
▪ A warning message will be displayed if the Package version has not been approved however this will not prevent registration.
▪ If entitlements are exceeded, the system will issue the relevant warning message and stop pay.
▪ Mrs Thatcher's public speeches contained thinly veiled warning messages to colleagues who doubted the strategy.
▪ An appropriate warning message will be displayed if you attempt to update a despatched Issue.
▪ Disapproval would at first enrage and then devastate him, and these warning messages apparently arrived visually.
■ VERB
bring
▪ When Gabriel brought your message to Mary; she could have said ` No'.
▪ Looking into the future brings a message of uncertainty.
▪ There is no pattern to the way they bring their urgent message.
▪ We see then that the idea introduces us to a radical gospel which brings an uncomfortable message to our hearts.
▪ Some people like the feel of writing; the movement of their hands against the paper somehow brings the message closer.
▪ Except when Liddy brought her food or messages, she kept the bedroom door locked so that her husband could not come in.
▪ It was because I thought I should be unable to bring this message to this group of employees of mine.
carry
▪ The knot of squires at Hotspur's back hung close and eager, ready to carry his messages.
▪ I made several secret trips up to New York, carrying messages back and forth between them.
▪ There were numerous illustrated broadsides and woodcuts which carried their message in visual form.
▪ Across that implacable distance a train carrying a message would crawl with the slowness of a beetle.
▪ From wherever they lodged, the couriers raced in and out, carrying orders and relaying messages.
▪ Gandhi carried this message to the people.
▪ Computer tags carry a coded message which the computer at the cash desk can read.
▪ The parties no longer carry the candidates' message to the people.
code
▪ They used miniature cameras to photograph secret documents and shortwave radios to receive coded messages from their spy masters, prosecutors said.
▪ Yardley copied the coded message as the five hundred words began flashing across the wire.
convey
▪ Paul Manville had to be given his due - he could not have chosen a more apt record to convey his message.
▪ A speaker can use the very same sentence to convey quite different messages depending on the context.
▪ The whole body may be conveying a message.
▪ Migliore was clearly eager to convey the message that all would now be well, according to Orr.
▪ Gestures must convey the message for those friends who can not appreciate words.
▪ He spoke with many pauses so that the translator at his right could convey the message in the vernacular.
▪ Some elements lay the foundation on which other elements may convey a message.
▪ One television ad featured a live chicken to convey the message: Stop being one; start investing.
deliver
▪ Its marketers are fabled for delivering feel-good messages.
▪ The Republican candidate must aggressively deliver his message directly to black organizations, church groups, colleges and schools.
▪ Why did she deliver the message then?
▪ Another group of medications neutralizes the enzymes that normally break down dopamine after it delivers its chemical message.
▪ The Ego was designed as a mere postal service which delivers messages to our conscious mind.
▪ Purim, a festival that delivers the transcendent message that good will always conquer evil.
▪ This must make it hard for the agencies who undertake to deliver telephone sales messages.
▪ We deliver our messages with the way we play the game.
get
▪ He got one message to me.
▪ The screen remains blank and the audience gradually gets the message.
▪ Do you ever wish you could get a message to somebody quickly when they are out and about?
▪ It might take hours before he gets the message.
▪ To get the message across, the National Wildlife Federation sends out 60 million pieces of mail.
▪ Hoffman said the company needed to do a better job getting its marketing messages to customers.
▪ The Forum is taking a number of strategic directions to get its message across.
▪ I get fax messages printed out through my phone line in the hospital.
give
▪ What is the process and what happens when people give and exchange messages?
▪ In addition, it gives credibility to your message while underscoring your point.
▪ I've found out more about it now, so if you wouldn't mind giving him a message, Ruth?
▪ Getting his attention comes first; engaging him comes second; inter-acting with him, then giving him your message comes third.
▪ Even worse, we had the Chairmen of the Whitley Councils publicly giving the same message.
▪ Clarke assumed it was a prank but promised to give Alvin the message.
▪ With the hood down my summer sun bleached hair might give the wrong message?
▪ Very often in our work we give contradictory messages.
hear
▪ The people didn't want to hear the message, and took out their frustration on Jeremiah.
▪ The training program heard that message each year from John Gutfreund.
▪ She should come with him to the United Reform Church in Florence and hear messages not of vengeance but of forgiveness.
▪ The United States is not ready to hear these messages.
▪ This year there's a willingness to hear the nationalist message as never before.
▪ And they heard the message of nonviolence.
▪ It's the cry for us all to hear, See the message writ afar.
▪ As for missions, how could slaves really hear the message of freedom from masters?
indicate
▪ They contained transmit and receipt logs indicating to whom messages and documents were sent and indicating date and time.
leave
▪ If they are unavailable, leave the message on their chair.
▪ She sent me memos, left Eugenia phone messages.
▪ And a guy left a message, a guy... em, McCluskey.
▪ Within a few days, people who call the number hear taped invitations to leave messages, which are never answered.
▪ She left a message on his answering machine: Nick, I wanted to thank you for last night.
▪ She leaves another message and another.
▪ They would still be driving home, so she could leave a message on the answering machine.
▪ For Stillman had not left his message anywhere.
pass
▪ I was in the middle of them both and passing on horrible messages from one to the other.
▪ Nor did Bo ever meet his superior, who passed him messages through an intermediary.
▪ The way horses pass messages between themselves will be the way that they will try and impart a message to us.
▪ And because of this luxury, the women used me to pass messages.
▪ I should have told her it was important to pass the message on immediately.
▪ The book trade should have an interest in passing on that message.
▪ He might try you again, but I said I'd pass the message along.
▪ We can always pass the message on to other runners.
read
▪ He tried to read some deeper personal message into it.
▪ Some people remember being able to read all new messages posted to Usenet newsgroups every day.
▪ Please read the specified mail message for more information on the error.
▪ One, the act of reading electronic messages will not infect a computer.
▪ Wordlessly, he waved Tahad in closer to the screen, inviting him to read the message.
▪ Users now wanted to connect to the Internet, browse the World Wide Web, send e-mail and read newsgroup messages.
▪ KNode is an online newsreader and when you choose to read a message, it is fetched directly from the server.
receive
▪ He received the same message as Sir Ralph.
▪ As he expected, Manion received an e-mail message from Philippe Fontaine requesting a meeting on the following Tuesday.
▪ Army bomb disposal experts scoured the city for 5 hours, after receiving a coded telephone message.
▪ Move to Autonomy: Setting Limits Children who receive affection and messages of acceptance are likely to feel secure.
▪ I promised her again that I would go to the prison to receive the message, whatever that might be.
▪ I own a Macintosh and have had no problems sending and receiving e-mail messages with IBM-compatible users.
▪ The submitter also receives an additional mail message if the package has been denied, giving the reason for approval being denied.
relay
▪ There are no layers of middle managers relaying messages - the environment is perfect for communication and intuition.
▪ He was more likely to call Rob and relay a message.
▪ The priest, standing in front of them, was relaying Siward's message, which contained words he thought he had forgotten.
▪ By 1914, they had set up a system of relaying messages from coast to coast.
▪ The Chair of the plenary session, Inez McCormack opened the afternoon session by relaying some messages to the conference.
▪ Freedman said he would relay the message.
▪ Some one who relays messages and passes on little notes.
▪ They will verbally relay the daily messages from home and transmit back her responses.
send
▪ If not Ill have to SEND and import the message I want to quote.
▪ And sometimes they send e-mail messages to Walsh and Pulver, updating the information on the size of their share-holdings.
▪ When some one wants to send you a private message, they scramble it using your public key.
▪ He sent a message saying that the Phoenix King did not answer demands but granted pleas.
▪ Or I could send a message back to myself, that I knew I had not received.
▪ By and large, the retina only sends messages to the brain when the image on it changes.
▪ Quick, somebody send the kid a message to come to his senses.
spread
▪ They were continually spreading the message that the library is an integral part of the school's operation.
▪ Forbes is traveling the country at an impressive clip, spreading his flat-tax message and pocketing IOUs from Republican pols.
▪ The managers of such funds are on the stump, spreading the message that their day has come at last.
▪ And with an estimated $ 5, 000 in contributions, he has tried to spread his message through community group meetings.
▪ His intention was to contact people and spread his message to the world.
▪ She speaks to the media from her home and travels a week out of every month to spread her message of awareness.
▪ Production was severely disrupted in all departments during the afternoon as the shop stewards spread the message.
▪ But once they get back home they continue to spread the Falun Gong message.
write
▪ He tells them that Claudia has written them a last message.
▪ I write messages to people I never see.
▪ That is the only reason I agreed to write this message to you.
▪ Wilson wrote in a veto message.
▪ On a single sheet of paper write down the main message of the report.
▪ To take his mind off his worries, I suggested that he wrote out a message for his family.
▪ But other customers prefer to write the messages themselves, for more of a personal touch.
▪ Application Have the students write secret messages.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
send (sb) a message/signal
▪ A cellular phone is really a mobile radio system that sends a signal out over public airwaves.
▪ And sometimes they send e-mail messages to Walsh and Pulver, updating the information on the size of their share-holdings.
▪ And they coincided with the bulges in the geoid, which sent a clear message to geophysicists.
▪ But finding a way to send a message faster than light struck me as more straight forward.
▪ For the 11 countries inside the euro, it sends a positive signal to the financial markets.
▪ Provided you both have Net access, it's as quick, easy and cheap as sending a message across the street.
▪ Turned out she wanted to know if Uncle Adam had been sending any radio messages.
▪ Would I care to send in a message?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "What is it?" "A message from the hospital. Harry's worse."
▪ Did you get my message?
▪ He says he has received many messages of support from the public.
▪ I'm sorry, Mr Banks isn't here right now. Would you like to leave a message?
▪ I hope Frank got my message that I was going to be late.
▪ When I got home, there were two messages on my answering machine.
▪ Where's Dick? I've got a message for him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the programs featured a variety of themes and methods and were not consistent in advocating abstinence as the central message.
▪ Fon somehow understood that the ancient rhythms of the words soothed Katherine as much as the message behind them.
▪ Joseph was alarmed by Monteith's message, and bewildered that he could have been so misunderstood at the previous council.
▪ One was that their writers eliminate industry jargon that transformed an everyday message into a threat.
▪ The message was delivered in eight days, starting in Houston before arriving at its final destination of Los Angeles.
▪ The latest management fashion brings a different message.
▪ The person offering the communication is, of course, just as much part of the message as the words that are uttered.
▪ Users just have to click an on-screen button to encrypt an outgoing message.