Definitions of Text [ɛkst]

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Definition of 'Text'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) text
the main body of matter in a manuscript, book, etc., as distinguished from notes, appendixes, illustrations, etc.

2.  text
the actual, original words of an author or speaker, as opposed to a translation, paraphrase, or the like.

3.  text
any of the various forms in which a writing exists:
The text is a medieval transcription.

4.  text
the wording adopted by an editor as representing the original words of an author:
the authoritative text of Catullus.

5.  text
any theme or topic.

6.  text
the words of a song or the like.

7.  text
a textbook.

8.  text
a short passage of Scripture, esp. one chosen in proof of a doctrine or as the subject of a sermon.

9.  text
type, as distinguished from illustrations, margins, etc.

10.  text
Ling. a unit of connected speech or writing that forms a cohesive whole.

11.  text
anything considered to be a subject for analysis by or as if by methods of literary criticism.

Etymology: (1300–50; ME < ML textus text, terms, L: weaving pattern, structure)

Definition of 'Text'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) text, textual matter
the words of something written
"there were more than a thousand words of text"; "they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech"; "he wants to reconstruct the original text"

2. (noun) text
a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon
"the preacher chose a text from Psalms to introduce his sermon"

3. (noun) textbook, text, text edition, schoolbook, school text
a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
"his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy"

4. (noun) text
the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)
"pictures made the text easier to understand"

Definition of 'Text'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) text
the writing in a book, newspaper, etc.
a book with large text

2. text
a book, piece of writing, etc. that is studied
a literary text

3. (verb) text
to send a message to sb on a cellphone
Text me later to tell me where you are.

Definition of 'Text'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Text
a discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or commentary

2. (noun) Text
the four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence

3. (noun) Text
a verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine

4. (noun) Text
hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme

5. (noun) Text
a style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text

6. (verb) Text
to write in large characters, as in text hand

Definitions of 'Text'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. Text
1. [techspeak] Executable code, esp. a pure code portion shared between multiple instances of a program running in a multitasking OS. Compare English.

2. Textual material in the mainstream sense; data in ordinary ASCII or EBCDIC representation (see flat-ASCII). “Those are text files; you can review them using the editor.”

These two contradictory senses confuse hackers, too.

Translation of 'Text'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: in a book, the written or printed words, as opposed to the illustrations, notes etc First the text was printed, then the drawings added.
Afrikaans: teks	Arabic: نَص	Bulgarian: текст
Brazilian: texto	Czech: text	German: der Text
Danish: tekst	Greek: κείμενο	Spanish: texto
Estonian: tekst	Farsi: متن	Finnish: teksti
French: texte	Hebrew: טֶקסט	Hindi: पाठ
Croatian: tekst	Hungarian: szöveg	Indonesian: teks
Icelandic: texti, lesmál	Italian: testo	Japanese: 本文
Korean: 본문	Lithuanian: tekstas	Latvian: teksts
Malay: teks	Dutch: tekst	Norwegian: tekst
Polish: tekst	Portuguese: texto	Romanian: text
Russian: текст	Slovak: text	Slovenian: besedilo
Serbian: tekst	Swedish: text	Thai: เนื้อหา
Turkish: metin, tekst	Taiwanese: 本文，正文	Ukrainian: текст
Urdu: عبارت	Vietnamese: nguyên văn	Chinese: 本文，正文
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