Nearby Words
Text language www.local.com/ Find text language Best-Rated Near You! Find Deals.
Texting www.ask.com/Texting Get Texting Find Texting
Free Calls and free chat. www.chatcube.com/ Free HD calls Free Chat and texting
Ads
noun
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.
EXPANDthe 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, especially 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.
12.
Linguistics. a unit of connected speech or writing, especially 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.
14.
COLLAPSEDigital Technology. a text message.
verb (used without object) Digital Technology.
15.
to send a text message: Texting while driving is an accident asking to happen.
00:10
00:09
00:08
00:07
00:06
00:05
00:04
00:03
00:02
00:01
Text
is one of our favorite verbs.
So is subtilize. Does it mean:
| to flee; abscond: |
| to introduce subtleties into or argue subtly about. |
verb (used with object) Digital Technology.
16.
to send a text message about or containing: He texted a long wish list to his parents two days before his eighteenth birthday. Compare instant message (def. 2).
17.
to send a text message to: The only way I can ever reach her is to text her.
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Medieval Latin textus text, terms, Latin: text, structure, orig., pattern of weaving, texture (of cloth), equivalent to tex(ere) to weave + -tus suffix of v. action
1300–50; Middle English < Medieval Latin textus text, terms, Latin: text, structure, orig., pattern of weaving, texture (of cloth), equivalent to tex(ere) to weave + -tus suffix of v. action
Related forms
text·less, adjective
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source
|
Link To Text
Example Sentences
- It should adhere to e-book standards, so that electronic text is readable centuries from now.
- In my era, there was the ubiquitous comic book hidden in a boring text.
- The earliest electronic textbooks simply offered the text of the printed book on a computer.
Collins
World English Dictionary
| text (tɛkst) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the main body of a printed or written work as distinct from commentary, notes, illustrations, etc |
| 2. | the words of something printed or written |
| 3. | (often plural) a book prescribed as part of a course of study |
| 4. | computing the words printed, written, or displayed on a visual display unit |
| 5. | the original exact wording of a work, esp the Bible, as distinct from a revision or translation |
| 6. | a short passage of the Bible used as a starting point for a sermon or adduced as proof of a doctrine |
| 7. | the topic or subject of a discussion or work |
| 8. | printing any one of several styles of letters or types |
| 9. | short for textbook |
| 10. | short for text message |
| —vb | |
| 11. | to send a text message from a mobile phone |
| [C14: from Medieval Latin textus version, from Latin textus texture, from texere to compose] | |
| 'textless | |
| —adj | |
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
text
late 14c., "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,"
EXPANDfrom PIE base *tek- "make" (see texture).
COLLAPSE
"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"]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Cite This Source
Cite This Source
FOLDOC
Computing Dictionary
text definition
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.
[Jargon File]
(1995-03-16)
Word Dynamo Rating For Text
Images for Text
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
