手機上的一則文字訊息
名詞是那個東西，動詞是傳那個東西的動作；同一個畫面，只是一個靜止、一個在動。
noun · A2
A short piece of writing that you send from a mobile phone and that the other person reads on their screen. Older devices called pagers could receive them too.
簡訊
核心畫面
You can picture a few typed words leaving one phone and appearing on the screen of another. The words are short, they are written rather than spoken, and they arrive one at a time — each one a separate little block that can be counted, saved or answered. The word names that block; the verb names the act of pushing one across.
可以想成打好的幾個字，從一支手機跳到另一支手機的螢幕上。它很短，是寫出來的，不是講出來的。而且它是一則一則到的，每一…更多收起
可以想成打好的幾個字，從一支手機跳到另一支手機的螢幕上。它很短，是寫出來的，不是講出來的。而且它是一則一則到的，每一則都是一個可以數、可以留著、可以回的小方塊。名詞說的是那個小方塊，動詞說的是「把它推過去」這個動作。One branch
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
text messagenoun
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A brief electronic message sent between mobile phones.
- After the kitten had died, Robins sent a text message to Knutton saying: "Remember the saying: 'What goes around comes around?' It has started already to bite you in the arse. The cat? Karma."
- A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
text messageverb
- 1
To transmit a text message.
- I told him to text message you when he's finished.
- Please text message the directions to me.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。