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noun
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the main body of matter in a manuscript, book, newspaper, etc., as distinguished from notes, appendixes, headings, illustrations, etc.
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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.
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the actual wording of anything written or printed: You have not kept to the text of my remarks.
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any of the various forms in which a writing exists: The text is a medieval transcription.
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EXPANDthe wording adopted by an editor as representing the original words of an author: the authoritative text of Catullus.
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any theme or topic; subject.
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the words of a song or the like.
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a textbook.
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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.
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the letter of the Holy Scripture, or the Scriptures themselves.
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Linguistics. a unit of connected speech or writing, especially composed of more than one sentence, that forms a cohesive whole.
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anything considered to be a subject for analysis by or as if by methods of literary criticism.
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COLLAPSEDigital Technology. a text message.
verb (used without object) Digital Technology.
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to send a text message: Texting while driving is an accident asking to happen.
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verb (used with object) Digital Technology.
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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).
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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
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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).
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"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
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