Used in a Sentence

notifications

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for notifications.

Editorial note

Must: allow voicemail for any/all extensions, with notifications when a message is left.

Examples17
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(countable) A specific piece of information that serves to notify.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of notifications gathered in one view.

noun

(countable) A specific piece of information that serves to notify.

noun

(uncountable) The act of notifying.

noun

(countable, computing) A message, alert, or signal displayed by a system or application to inform the user of an event, update, new message, etc.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for notifications.

noun

(countable) A specific piece of information that serves to notify.

noun

(uncountable) The act of notifying.

noun

(countable, computing) A message, alert, or signal displayed by a system or application to inform the user of an event, update, new message, etc.

Example sentences

1

Must: allow voicemail for any/all extensions, with notifications when a message is left.

2

The per channel notifications and showing notifications on logging back in are both things I really wanted in Hipchat at the time.

3

I guess the idea is that the watch notifications are less disruptive to general life.

4

I would like to see notifications for when the package is five minutes out, so I can meet the driver at the curb.

5

Does this mean gists can have comment notifications again?

6

UM in Redmond mode is the only one that just flashes the taskbar icon upon notifications, which makes perfect sense to me.

7

We might get down to the level of something like handling out-of-order change notifications.

8

For the rest of the day keep your email client closed and notifications off.

9

To answer your question - no, I don't charge for emails unless the volume is excessive (> 10/day or so, not counting notifications from PM systems and the like).

10

I think that good companies know they can accomplish their goal without being obtuse by using notifications to help vs.

11

With Hipchat I'd either miss messages I wanted to see or have to get constant notifications.

12

Personally, being in a ~20 person company, I really don't really care about per-channel notifications.

Quote examples

1

The smart watch can -- if designed like Pebble -- provide ambient awareness of "notifications" without interruption.

2

This one was egregious: "Quora becoming desperate, makes browser extension to spam notifications".

3

"More granular notifications" was either the #1 or #2 highest-voted issue in their feature requests for over three years, and they're only now getting to the point where they have a beta version of the feature.

4

If you're happy with a "hackable" phone and you're willing to put up with missing calls, disappearing notifications, private lock screen notifications showing message contents still, then it's not a bad way to waste £300, but I want a reliable phone I dont have to fight with, so I'm sacking it off very soon.

Proper noun examples

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Notifications sidebar is awfully slow, and Spotlight doesn't appear in the center.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use notifications in a sentence?

Must: allow voicemail for any/all extensions, with notifications when a message is left.

What does notifications mean?

(countable) A specific piece of information that serves to notify.

What part of speech is notifications?

notifications is commonly used as noun.