Messenger
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A messenger is a person employed in business to convey messages, official dispatches, telegrams, letters, or parcels, and go on special errands as part of their duties. In the government and military, a messenger is an official courier.
Messenger may also refer to:
[edit] Computers
- An instant messaging client or service in general, or specifically one of the following services:
- AOL Instant Messenger, an ad-supported instant messaging and presence computer program, published by America Online
- BitWise IM, an instant messaging client published by BitWise Communications, LLC.
- Google Talk, an instant messaging client published by Google
- Miranda IM, an opensource instant messaging client released under GNU GPL
- MSN Messenger, the Microsoft instant messaging client preceding Windows Live Messenger
- QQ, an instant messaging client published by Tencent
- Windows Live Messenger, an instant messaging client published by Microsoft
- Windows Messenger, the instant messaging client bundled with Windows XP
- Yahoo! Messenger, an instant messaging client published by Yahoo!
- The Messenger service, a network-based system notification service included in later versions of Microsoft Windows
[edit] Biology and chemistry
- Chemical messenger or Hormone, a molecule used for cellular signalling
- Messenger RNA (mRNA), RNA that carries information from DNA to the ribosome sites of protein synthesis in a cell
[edit] Media
- Messenger Newspapers a group of newspapers in Adelaide, South Australia
- The Messenger Magazine
[edit] The Arts
- Messenger (album), the third album by Edwin McCain, released on June 15, 1999
- The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, film
- Messenger (novel), a novel written by Lois Lowry
- Messenger, an episode of Power Rangers: SPD
- Messenger Records, a record label
[edit] Other
- MESSENGER, a NASA probe to Mercury launched in 2004
- Messenger, a bicyclist who transports packages through cities
- Messenger (horse), an English thoroughbred horse that was foaled in 1780, and who was the originating sire of modern-day standardbred horses
- Miles Messenger, a British 1940s liaison aircraft
- Muhammad, known as The Messenger in Islam
- Messenger, a tool attached to a capstan used to raise the anchor cables on 17th - 19th century sailing ships