text
See also: Text
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French texte (“text”), from Medieval Latin textus (“the Scriptures, text, treatise”), from Latin textus (“style or texture of a work”), perfect passive participle of texō (“I weave”). Cognate to texture.
Pronunciation
- enPR: tĕkst, IPA(key): /tɛkst/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛkst
- Hyphenation: text
Noun
text (countable and uncountable, plural texts)
- A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
- A book, tome or other set of writings.
- (colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones; an SMS text message.
- (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text (often contrasted with binary data).
- A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
- Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.; topic; theme.
- A style of writing in large characters; text-hand; also, a kind of type used in printing.
- German text
Hyponyms
- flat text
- hypertext
- plain text
- plaintext
- running text
- schizotext
- subtext
Related terms
Translations
a written passage
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a book, tome or other set of writings
a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
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Further reading
Verb
text (third-person singular simple present texts, present participle texting, simple past and past participle texted or (nonstandard) text)
- (transitive) To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.
- Just text me when you get here.
- I'll text the address to you as soon as I find it.
- (intransitive) To send and receive text messages.
- Have you been texting all afternoon?
- To write in large characters, as in text hand.
- 1607–21, Phillip Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret, Act 2, Scene 1:
- I wish / (Next to my part of Heav'n) that she would spend / The last part of her life so here, that all / Indifferent judges might condemn me for / A most malicious slanderer, nay, text it / Upon my forehead
- 2009, Lain Fenlon, Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music (Music), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page p. 223:
- The basic plan is simple. For the first two phrases the texted line is above the untexted; for the next two, bring us to the midpoint cadence, the texted line is for the most part lower; and the in the second half the texted material starts lower, moves into the upper position and finally occupies the bottom range again.
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Translations
to send a text message to
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to send and receive SMSs
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Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin textus (“text”), from Latin textus, perfect passive participle of texō (“weave”).
Czech
Noun
text m
- text
- text knihy — the text of the book
- text písně — lyrics
- text smlouvy — the text of the contract
Declension
Kurdish
Related terms
- textî
- textîn
- textînî
References
- Cabolov, R. L. (2010) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 389
Romanian
References
- text in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Swedish
Pronunciation
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