[tekst] 
| 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. |
"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.