detext

English

Etymology

de- +‎ text

Verb

detext (third-person singular simple present detexts, present participle detexting, simple past and past participle detexted)

1. (rare) To extract or remove from a text
   • 1988, Peter Masson, editor, Indiana 11‎^[1], page 14:

     The search for partial text parallels is helpful in order to detext interchangeable substitutions.

Usage notes

• This word is first found in print in English in Henry Cockeram's 1623 English Dictionary, with the meaning "unwoven". This is not known to have ever occurred in use, and appears to be unrelated to the modern term.

See also

• detect

Anagrams

• texted