Princeton's WordNet

1. text, textual matter(noun)

   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. text(noun)

   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. textbook, text, text edition, schoolbook, school text(noun)

   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. text(noun)

   the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)

   "pictures made the text easier to understand"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

1. text(noun)ɛkst

   the writing in a book, newspaper, etc.

   a book with large text

2. textɛkst

   a book, piece of writing, etc. that is studied

   a literary text

3. text(verb)ɛkst

   to send a message to sb on a cellphone

   Text me later to tell me where you are.

Wiktionary

1. text(Noun)

   A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.

2. text(Noun)

   A book, tome or other set of writings.

3. text(Noun)

   A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones; an SMS text message.

4. text(Noun)

   Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text (often contrasted with binary data).

5. text(Verb)

   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.

6. text(Verb)

   To send and receive text messages.

   Have you been texting all afternoon?

Origin: From textus, perfect passive participle of texo.

Webster Dictionary

1. Text(noun)

   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. Text(noun)

   the four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence

3. Text(noun)

   a verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine

4. Text(noun)

   hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme

5. Text(noun)

   a style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text

6. Text(verb)

   to write in large characters, as in text hand

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.

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