noun🔗ShareOne who brings messages."The company used messengers to deliver important documents across the city. "communicationpersonjobChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier."The sailors used the messengers to pull the thick mooring ropes from the ship to the dock. "nauticalsailingtechnicalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data)."The weight of the new fiber optic cable is supported by strong steel messengers running between the telephone poles. "utilitytechnologycommunicationelectricbuildingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA 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 court appointed three messengers to oversee the bankrupt bakery's assets. "lawbusinessjobChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAn instant messenger program."My brother uses the messengers program to talk to his friends about homework. "communicationtechnologyinternetcomputingmediaChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA forerunner."The robin's cheerful songs in early spring are often messengers of warmer weather to come. "communicationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA light scudding cloud preceding a storm."The dark, heavy clouds were still on the horizon, but already the messengers, wisps of pale cloud, raced across the sky, warning us of the coming storm. "weathernatureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA piece of paper, etc., blown up a string to a kite."The children attached little paper messengers to their kites, hoping they would carry their wishes up to the sky. "entertainmentgameChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA weight dropped down a line to close a Nansen bottle."The oceanographers deployed the Nansen bottles, then sent down messengers along the wire to trigger their closure at specific depths. "nauticaloceantechnicaldeviceenvironmentscienceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe secretary bird."Because secretary birds are efficient messengers, delivering information quickly across vast distances, they were often employed for communication in rural communities. "birdChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA messenger-at-arms."The sheriff dispatched two messengers to serve the eviction notice at the farmer's property. "lawjobpersoncommunicationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading