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text

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English

Etymology

From Latin textus, perfect passive participle of texō (“weave”).

Pronunciation

Noun

text (countable and uncountable; plural texts)

  1. A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
  2. A book, tome or other set of writings.
  3. (colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones; an SMS text message.
  4. (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text (often contrasted with binary data).

Derived terms

terms derived from text

Related terms

terms related to text

Verb

text (third-person singular simple present texts, present participle texting, simple past and past participle texted)

  1. 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.
  2. (intransitive) To send and receive text messages.
    Have you been texting all afternoon?
  3. To write in large characters, as in text hand.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaumont and Flanders to this entry?)
    • 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.

Synonyms

Translations

send a text message to
  • Afrikaans: SMS (af)
  • Czech: písnout
  • Dutch: sms'en (nl)
  • French: textoter (fr)
  • German: simsen (de)
  • Welsh: tecstio (cy)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin textus, perfect passive participle of texō (“weave”).

Noun

text m. (plural texts or textos)

  1. a text

Czech

Noun

text m.

  1. 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 m.

  1. throne
  2. bed
  3. wood, tree

Related terms

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

text c.

  1. text

Declension

Declension of text
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative text texten texter texterna
genitive texts textens texters texternas

 

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