texting
49
1.8
- noun
- /ˈtɛkstɪŋ/
- Texting
:
enviar mensajes de texto
- You know she is spending all night texting boys?
- texting in class
- texting behavior
- texting on a phone
To answer your question about phones and explaining what texting is, Yeah.
- To answer your question about phones and explaining what texting is, Yeah.
Examples
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These kids are texting each other at the table.
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My quality of life has increased due to texting and posting to SNS.
Academic text (2014) -
Medium of choice for local communication is the cell phone, followed by texting and email.
Academic text (2014) -
Some students used email or texting occasionally to communicate with family, if necessary.
Academic text (2014) -
They were able to share more via texting than face to face.
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An increasing number of health organizations and professionals are developing texting campaigns and programs for health promotion.
Academic text (2014) -
Lori described her summer texting habits of several hundred per day as embarrassing.
Academic text (2014) -
You have more computing power in your pocket than NASA did when they put a man on the moon, but you use it for "mostly texting and Facebook."
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Peter, however, compared texting to in-person interactions and explained that he preferred texting because it prolongs social interaction.
Academic text (2014) -
These kids are texting each other at the table.
Synonyms
44
2.6
The sending and receiving of messages on phones or computers, for example texts and email
Sending and receiving messages by computer or phone
How Often
- Texting
4
3.4
- Texting
49
1.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Texting comes from text, which originally came from a Latin word meaning 'to weave', and the ending -ing turns it into an action. So texting means the action of sending short written messages on a phone, as if you are 'weaving' words together.