messenger

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈmɛs.ən.d͡ʒə/    美 /ˈmɛs.ən.d͡ʒɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who brings messages.
  2. The secretary bird.
  3. The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).
  4. A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge of the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.
    — The Messenger under the joint Commission of Bankruptcy might have seized the Whole, if they had remained in their Warehouse
  5. An instant messenger program.
    — The 4 primary messengers include ^([sic]) AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, and MSN Messenger.
  6. A forerunner or harbinger. figuratively
    — a messenger of doom
  7. A light scudding cloud preceding a storm.
  8. A piece of paper, etc., blown up a string to a kite.
  9. A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.
  10. A weight dropped down a line to close a Nansen bottle.
  11. A messenger-at-arms. Scotland
  12. A pin which travels across the pin deck to knock over another pin, usually for a strike.
动词 v.
  1. To send something by messenger. transitive
    — I'll messenger over the signed documents.

词形变化

messengers plural messengers present,singular,third-person messengering participle,present messengered participle,past messengered past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English messengere, messingere, messangere, from Old French messanger, a variant of Old French messagier (French messager), equivalent to message + -er. Doublet of messager.
Displaced native Old English boda (“messenger, envoy”) and ǣrendraca (“messenger, ambassador”).
For the replacement of -ager with -enger, -inger, -anger, compare passenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer. This development may have been merely the addition of n, or it may have resulted due to contamination from other suffixes such as Middle English -ing and the rare Old French -ange, -enc, -inge, -inghe (“-ing”) for Old French -age (“-age”).
词源 2
From Middle English messengere, messingere, messangere, from Old French messanger, a variant of Old French messagier (French messager), equivalent to message + -er. Doublet of messager.
Displaced native Old English boda (“messenger, envoy”) and ǣrendraca (“messenger, ambassador”).
For the replacement of -ager with -enger, -inger, -anger, compare passenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer. This development may have been merely the addition of n, or it may have resulted due to contamination from other suffixes such as Middle English -ing and the rare Old French -ange, -enc, -inge, -inghe (“-ing”) for Old French -age (“-age”).
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