messenger

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n. 报信者, 使者 [经] 使者, 送信者, 通信员

发音

US /ˈmɛs.ən.d͡ʒɚ/
UK /ˈmɛs.ən.d͡ʒə/

词形变化

messengers 复数 messengers messengered messengering messengers 三单 messengering 现在分词 messengered 过去式 messengered 过去分词

别名

msngr

教材释义与例句

名词

报信者，送信者；先驱

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    One who brings messages.

    信使

    使者

    伻

  2. 2.

    The secretary bird.

  3. 3.

    The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).

  4. 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.

    法律
  5. 5.

    An instant messenger program.

    计算机 工程 数学
  6. 6.

    A forerunner or harbinger.

    比喻

    a messenger of doom

  7. 7.

    A light scudding cloud preceding a storm.

  8. 8.

    A piece of paper, etc., blown up a string to a kite.

  9. 9.

    A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.

    航海 交通
  10. 10.

    A weight dropped down a line to close a Nansen bottle.

  11. 11.

    A messenger-at-arms.

    苏格兰
  12. 12.

    A pin which travels across the pin deck to knock over another pin, usually for a strike.

    体育
v.
  1. 1.

    To send something by messenger.

    及物

    I'll messenger over the signed documents.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

courier

上位词 2

traveler traveller

下位词 9

runner herald bearer conveyor trumpeter conveyer dispatch rider errand boy process server

相关短语

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词源

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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