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[tekst] Pronunciation Key
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[tekst] Pronunciation Key –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.
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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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textless, adjective
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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(těkst) Pronunciation Key
n.
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.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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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| text | |
noun | |
| 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.
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This
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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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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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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.
Jargon File 4.2.0
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Text\, v. t. To write in large characters, as in text hand. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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