单词 | picture message |
释义 | picture messagen. 1. An image or symbol used to convey an idea, meaning, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol tokeningc888 tokenc890 print1340 bannerc1380 signingc1390 signala1393 signc1400 similitude?c1400 type?a1500 sacrament1534 resemblance1548 adumbration1552 character1569 picture1580 symbol1590 moral?1594 attribute1600 symbolization1603 allegory1606 emblema1616 hieroglyph1646 simile1682 documentor1684 symptoma1687 monument1728 metaphor1836 presentation1866 symbolisms1876 ideogram1897 picture message1912 figura1959 1912 J. McCabe Story of Evol. xx. 303 Lord Avebury reproduces an Eskimo drawing, or picture-message, in his ‘Prehistoric Times’. 1953 W. J. Entwistle Aspects of Lang. iv. 139 The picture-message, in fact, corresponds to a number of different oral sentences which have the same broad effect. 1988 OptiMSt (Nexis) 30 June 8 These tools include: 12 colored ‘picture message cards’. 2. An image which is transmitted electronically, esp. (in later use) from one mobile phone to another. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > call or message > types of personal call1843 local call1882 ringback1895 long distance1902 private call1907 trunk-call1910 toll call1912 callback1914 overflow1924 picture message1929 alarm call1966 text message1977 text1990 1929 Times 29 Oct. (Printing Suppl.) p. xix/6 The picture ‘messages’ and the synchronizing signals travel simultaneously over the same line. 1970 Times 29 Sept. 3/2 The radio signals are converted into a series of pulses by the radio transmitter and reconstituted as a voice or picture message by the receiver. 1999 Independent (Nexis) 16 June (Business section) 1 Nokia is two months away from launching the first ‘media phone’ which uses wireless technology to issue weather reports, send picture messages and calculate biorhythms. 2002 What Mobile Apr. 24/1 With the advent of enhanced messaging services (EMS) you will soon be able to send animated picture messages with sound effects from one mobile to the other. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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