Dictionary Definition
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" [syn: textual
matter]
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, text
edition, schoolbook, school text]
[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"
User Contributed Dictionary
see Text
English
Pronunciation
- , /tɛkst/, /tEkst/
Noun
Related terms
- context
- flat text
- hypertext
- plain text
- pretext
- running text
- subtext
- textbase
- text box
- text editor
- text file
- text link
- text message
- text retrieval
- textual
- SMS
Translations
a written passage
a book, tome or other set of writings
a brief written message transmitted between
mobile phones
Verb
- To send a text message using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.
Synonyms
Translations
send a short message
- Dutch: sms'en
Kurdish
Etymology
From PersianNoun
textSwedish
Noun
textExtensive Definition
Text may refer to:
- Plain text
- Written language
- TEXT, a Swedish band formed by 3/4 ex-Refused Members.
- Text file, a computer file consisting solely of characters from a recognized character set
- To text, to send by text messaging
- Editable text from scanning
text in Catalan: Text
text in Danish: Tekst
text in German: Text
text in Spanish: Texto
text in Esperanto: Teksto
text in French: Texte
text in Galician: Texto
text in Ido: Texto
text in Italian: Testo
text in Macedonian: Текст
text in Dutch: Tekst
text in Japanese: テキスト
text in Norwegian: Tekst
text in Norwegian Nynorsk: Tekst
text in Polish: Tekst
text in Portuguese: Texto
text in Russian: Текст
text in Simple English: Text
text in Swedish: Text
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abecedarium, abecedary, abstract, acknowledgments,
adage, advance sheets,
advertising matter, alphabet book, ana, analects, aphorism, apothegm, argument, arrangement, article, axiom, back, back matter, basis, bastard title, battledore, bibliography, book, burden, byword, case, casebook, catch line, catchword, chapter, clause, collected sayings,
colophon, composite
reading, concern,
conflation, consideration, content, contents, contents page,
continuity, copy, copyright page, critical
edition, cue, current
saying, dedication,
dictate, dictum, diplomatic text, distich, draft, edited text, edition, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet, epigram, errata, essence, exercise book, expression, extract, fascicle, flyleaf, focus, focus of attention, focus
of interest, folio, fore
edge, foreword, front
matter, fundamentals, gathering, gist, gnome, golden saying, gradus, grammar, half-title page,
head, heading, hornbook, hymnal, hymnbook, idea, imprint, index, inscription, instrumental
score, introduction, issue, leaf, lection, letterpress, libretto, line, lines, living issue, lute
tablature, main point, makeup, manual, manual of instruction,
matter, matter in hand,
maxim, meat, moral, mot, motif, motive, motto, music, music paper, music roll,
musical notation, musical score, normalized text, notation, number, opera, opera score, oracle, orchestral score,
page, paragraph, part, passage, phrase, piano score, pithy
saying, playbook,
point, point at issue,
point in question, precept, preface, preliminaries, prescript, primer, printed matter, problem, proverb, proverbial saying,
proverbs, question, quotation, reader, reading, reading matter,
recto, rendering, rendition, reverso, rubric, running title, saw, saying, scenario, scene plot, scholarly
edition, schoolbook,
score, script, section, sentence, sententious
expression, sheet, sheet
music, shooting script, short score, side, signature, sloka, songbook, songster, speller, spelling book, stock
saying, subject, subject
matter, subject of thought, substance, subtitle, sutra, t, tablature, table of contents,
tail, teaching, textbook, theme, title, title page, topic, transcript, transcription, trim size,
type page, variant,
verse, version, verso, vocal score, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise
saying, witticism,
word, wording, words, words of wisdom, workbook, written
music