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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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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