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| 1. | the main body of matter in a manuscript, book, newspaper, etc., as distinguished from notes, appendixes, headings, illustrations, etc. |
| 2. | the original words of an author or speaker, as opposed to a translation, paraphrase, commentary, or the like: The newspaper published the whole text of the speech. |
| 3. | the actual wording of anything written or printed: You have not kept to the text of my remarks. |
| 4. | any of the various forms in which a writing exists: The text is a medieval transcription. |
| 5. | the wording adopted by an editor as representing the original words of an author: the authoritative text of Catullus. |
| 6. | any theme or topic; subject. |
| 7. | the words of a song or the like. |
| 8. | a textbook. |
| 9. | a short passage of Scripture, esp. one chosen in proof of a doctrine or as the subject of a sermon: The text he chose was the Sermon on the Mount. |
| 10. | the letter of the Holy Scripture, or the Scriptures themselves. |
| 11. | Printing.
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| 12. | Linguistics. a unit of connected speech or writing, esp. composed of more than one sentence, that forms a cohesive whole. |
| 13. | anything considered to be a subject for analysis by or as if by methods of literary criticism. |
[Origin: 1300–50; ME < ML textus text, terms, L: text, structure, orig., pattern of weaving, texture (of cloth), equiv. to tex(ere) to weave + -tus suffix of v. action]
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tr.v. text·ed, text·ing, texts
[Middle English texte, from Old French, from Late Latin textus, written account, from Latin, structure, context, body of a passage, from past participle of texere, to weave, fabricate; see teks- in Indo-European roots.] |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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1369, "wording of anything written," from O.Fr. texte, O.N.Fr. tixte (12c.), from M.L. textus "the Scriptures, text, treatise," in L.L. "written account, content, characters used in a document," from L. textus "style or texture of a work," lit. "thing woven," from pp. stem of texere "to weave," from PIE base *tek- "make" (see texture).
"An ancient metaphor: thought is a thread, and the raconteur is a spinner of yarns -- but the true storyteller, the poet, is a weaver. The scribes made this old and audible abstraction into a new and visible fact. After long practice, their work took on such an even, flexible texture that they called the written page a textus, which means cloth." [Robert Bringhurst, "The Elements of Typographic Style"]Text-book is from 1779.
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
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| 1. | 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. | 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. | 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" [syn: textbook] [ant: trade book] |
| 4. | the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.); "pictures made the text easier to understand" |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
text1 [tekst] noun
in a book, the written or printed words, as opposed to the illustrations, notes etc
Example: First the text was printed, then the drawings added.
text2 [tekst] nounExample: First the text was printed, then the drawings added.
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a passage from the Bible about which a sermon is preached
Example: He preached on a text from St John's gospel.
See also: textbookExample: He preached on a text from St John's gospel.
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
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1. Executable code, especially a "pure code" portion shared between multiple instances of a program running in a multitasking operating system.
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.
[The Jargon File]
(1995-03-16)
| The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe |
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Con*text"\, a. [L. contextus, p. p. of contexere to weave, to unite; con- + texere to weave. See Text.] Knit or woven together; close; firm. [Obs.] The coats, without, are context and callous. --Derham.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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Pen"ta*teuch\, n. [L. pentateuchus, Gr. ?; ? (see Penta-) + ? a tool, implement, a book, akin to ? to prepare, make ready, and perh. to E. text. See Five, and Text.] The first five books of the Old Testament, collectively; -- called also the Law of Moses, Book of the Law of Moses, etc.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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