text
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English
Etymology
From Latin textus, perfect passive participle of texō (“weave”).
Pronunciation
Noun
text (countable and uncountable; plural texts)
- A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
- A book, tome or other set of writings.
- (colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones; an SMS text message.
- (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text (often contrasted with binary data).
Derived terms
terms derived from text
Related terms
Translations
a written passage
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a book, tome or other set of writings
a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
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Verb
text (third-person singular simple present texts, present participle texting, simple past and past participle texted or text)
- (transitive) To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.
- Just text me when you get here.
- (transitive) To send (a message) to someone by SMS.
- I'll text the address to you as soon as I find it.
- (intransitive) To send and receive text messages.
- Have you been texting all afternoon?
- To write in large characters, as in text hand.
- 1607-21, Phillip Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret, Act 2, Scene 1:
- I wish / (Next to my part of Heav'n) that she would spend / The last part of her life so here, that all / Indifferent judges might condemn me for / A most malicious slanderer, nay, text it / Upon my forehead
- 2009, Lain Fenlon, Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music[1], Music, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521746540, page p. 223:
- The basic plan is simple. For the first two phrases the texted line is above the untexted; for the next two, bring us to the midpoint cadence, the texted line is for the most part lower; and the in the second half the texted material starts lower, moves into the upper position and finally occupies the bottom range again.
- 1607-21, Phillip Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret, Act 2, Scene 1:
Synonyms
Translations
send a text message to
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin textus, perfect passive participle of texō (“weave”).
Noun
text m (plural texts or textos)
- a text
Czech
Noun
text m
- text
- text knihy — the text of the book
- text písně — lyrics
- text smlouvy — the text of the contract
Derived terms
Kurdish
Etymology
From Persian
Noun
text gender unspecified m
Related terms
- textî
- textîn
- textînî
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