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text

  [tekst]
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–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. 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.
a. black letter.
b. type, as distinguished from illustrations, margins, etc.
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

Related forms:
textless, adjective
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black letter

 
–noun Printing.
a heavy-faced type in a style like that of early European hand lettering and the earliest printed books.
Also called text.

Origin:
1630–40

Related forms:
black-letter, adjective
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text   (těkst)   
n.  
    1. The original words of something written or printed, as opposed to a paraphrase, translation, revision, or condensation.
    2. The words of a speech appearing in print.
    3. Words, as of a libretto, that are set to music in a composition.
    4. Words treated as data by a computer.
  2. The body of a printed work as distinct from headings and illustrative matter on a page or from front and back matter in a book.
  3. One of the editions or forms of a written work: After examining all three manuscripts, he published a new text of the poem.
  4. Something, such as a literary work or other cultural product, regarded as an object of critical analysis.
  5. A passage from the Scriptures or another authoritative source chosen for the subject of a discourse or cited for support in argument.
  6. A passage from a written work used as the starting point of a discussion.
  7. A subject; a topic.
  8. A textbook.
tr.v.   text·ed, text·ing, texts
  1. To send a text message to: She texted me when she arrived.
  2. To communicate by text message: He texted that he would be late.

[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.]
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Text

Text\ (t[e^]kst), n. [F. texte, L. textus, texture, structure, context, fr. texere, textum, to weave, construct, compose; cf. Gr. te`ktwn carpenter, Skr. taksh to cut, carve, make. Cf. Context, Mantle, n., Pretext, Tissue, Toil a snare.]

1. 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. --Chaucer.

2. (O. Eng. Law) The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence. [R.]

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

How oft, when Paul has served us with a text, Has Epictetus, Plato, Tully, preached! --Cowper.

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

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

Text blindness. (Physiol.) See Word blindness, under Word.

Text letter, a large or capital letter. [Obs.]

Text pen, a kind of metallic pen used in engrossing, or in writing text-hand.

Text

Text\, v. t. To write in large characters, as in text hand. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
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Language Translation for : text
Spanish: texto,
German: der Text,
Japanese: 本文
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text

n.
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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text 
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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text
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)

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