SMS

• S.M.S., S. M. S.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛs ɛm ˈɛs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛs

Abbreviation

SMS (countable and uncountable, plural SMSes)

1. (uncountable, telecommunications) Initialism of short message service: a system enabling cell phones to send or receive text messages.
   • 2007 October 15, Eric Newman, “iPhone is different things to different dudes”, in Brandweek‎^[1], volume 48, →ISSN, page 226:

     The second spot, “One Thing,” shows the unlikely custom car shop workin', musclebound dude-bro, who loves his iPhone because it consolidates the iPod, camera, cell phone and SMS device he used to carry around in “a little bag.”

   • 2023 February 18, Ramishah Maruf, “Twitter to charge for SMS two-factor authentication”, in CNN Business‎^[2]:

     As of 2021, only 2.6% of Twitter users had a 2FA method enabled – and of those, 74.4% used SMS authentication, a Twitter account security report said.

   1. (countable) A text message sent using this system.

      Synonym: text

2. (numismatics) Initialism of special mint set.
3. Initialism of salesman sample.
4. Initialism of Smith-Magenis syndrome.
5. (psychology) Initialism of short man syndrome.
6. (neurology) Initialism of stiff man syndrome.

   Synonym: SPS

7. Initialism of safety management system: a system designed to identify and manage occupational safety and health risks.

SMS (third-person singular simple present SMSes, present participle SMSing, simple past and past participle SMSed)

1. To send a message on a cell phone via short message service.

   Synonym: text

   I SMSed him and asked why he was late.

   I can't talk to her: she is too busy SMSing her friends.

• Appendix:Glossary of textspeak

SMS

1. (video games) Initialism of Sega Master System.

From German SMS.

SMS (uncountable)

1. (military, nautical, initialism) SMS — Seiner Majestät Schiff – literally, "His Majesty's Ship" in German;

   Coordinate terms: HM, HMS, HBMS, HSMS, HSwMS, HDMS, HDaMS, HNLMS, HNMS, HNoMS

   Coordinate terms: SM, Zr.Ms., Hr.Ms.

   1. A ship prefix for a ship in the navy of the Empire of Germany (usually for the period leading to WWI and WWI)

      Synonym: HIGMS

• MSS, MSS., MSs, Mss, Mss., SSM, mss, mss.

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SMS

1. misspelling of sms

• IPA^(key): /ɛ.sɛ.mɛs/ ~ /e.se.mɛs/

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SMS m (plural SMS)

1. SMS, text, text message

   Synonym: (France) texto

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛsʔɛmˈʔɛs/ (official standard)

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• IPA^(key): /ˌɛsɛˈmɛs/, /-se-/, /-zɛ-/, /-ze-/ (common speech, for Etymology 1)

SMS f or n (strong or mixed, genitive SMS, plural SMS or SMSen or SMSe)

1. SMS (text message)

• The noun is almost exclusively feminine in northern Germany, central Germany, and Luxembourg. The neuter gender is predominant in the southern half of the language area, but the feminine is also heard.
• The unchanged plural SMS is generally used with the neuter gender. The form SMSe is rarer.
• With the feminine, the marked form SMSen is often needed to express the plural, but the unchanged form can be used when the plural is evident from the grammatical construction or the context.

• S. M. S.

SMS

1. (nautical, military) SMS — Seiner Majestät Schiff (His Majesty's Ship)

Used for naval ships of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Second Reich of Imperial Germany, for the Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine and Kaiserliche Marine, respectively.

• English: SMS

Initialism of Short Message Service.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛʃɛmɛʃ]

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• Rhymes: -ɛʃ

SMS (plural SMS-ek)

1. SMS, text message (a service for sending text messages on a cellular telephone system)

• IPA^(key): /ɛsˈɛm.ɛs/, [ɛsˈɛm.ɛs]

SMS (plural SMS-SMS)

1. SMS (text message)

   Synonym: layanan pesan singkat

2. (military) initialism of senapan mesin sedang (“medium machine gun”)

SMS m

1. SMS (text message)

SMS(エスエムエス) • (esu-emu-esu) 

1. SMS

• 伝言(でんごん) (dengon)

• sms

Orthographic borrowing from English SMS.

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.ɛmˈɛs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛs
• Syllabification: S‧M‧S

SMS m animal or m inan (related adjective SMS-owy)

1. (countable) SMS, text message (brief electronic message sent between mobile phones)

   Synonyms: es, esek, esemes, eska

2. (uncountable, telecommunications) short message service (system for transmitting text messages on mobile phones)

• SMS in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• SMS in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English SMS.

SMS m or f (invariable)

1. SMS; text message (a text message sent on a cell phone)

   Synonyms: mensagem de texto, (Brazil) torpedo

Borrowed from English SMS.

SMS n (plural SMS-uri)

1. SMS; text message (a text message sent on a cell phone)

• mesaj SMS, mesaj scurt

• IPA^(key): /ˌese ˌeme ˈese/ [ˌe.se ˌe.me ˈe.se]

SMS m (plural SMS)

1. (telecommunications) SMS
   • 2013 April 17, “Revisa tu celular: estos son los países más afectados por el "malware"”, in CNN en Español‎^[3]:

     Los usuarios móviles también pueden ser engañados a través del llamado smishing; una combinación de las palabras SMS y phishing (donde un usuario recibe un mensaje de texto en el que se le pide información personal como un número de tarjeta de crédito o dirección de correo electrónico).

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “SMS”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024