text
IPA: tˈɛkst
noun
- 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.
- (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
- A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
- (by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
- (printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
verb
- (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.
- (intransitive) To send and receive text messages.
- (dated) To write in large characters, as in text hand.
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Examples of "text" in Sentences
- The text of the articles spell hoax.
- It overshadows the text of the article.
- The article text was jocular, but true.
- In the text of the article is vandalism.
- The text in the current article is promotional.
- The text of the article is uttertly incoherent.
- I saw the comment in the hidden text of the page.
- It is the lack of the text comments in the figure
- The majority are embedded in the text of the article.
- Italicized text is rendered as _text_, bold text is rendered as
- The text in question even notes the speculative nature of the comments.
- The function's default action assumes that $text is pure text, not HTML.
- Italicized text is rendered as _text_, bold text is rendered as = text =.
- [_In at least one printing of the text, “clasped” is misprinted as “elasped” _] but this teacyed me not [_text unchanged_]
- Main text: l. 1061 Alle the vndirIusticeȝ [_text unchanged_] l. 1166 þe honour {e} and worshipp {e} [_extra blank space at beginning of line_]
- It is striking to observe that so little were these ecclesiastical notes (embedded in the text) understood by the possessor of the MS., that in the margin, over against ch.xv. 41, (where “ΤΕΛ:” stands _in the text_,) a somewhat later hand has written, — ΤΕ [λος] Τ [ης] ΩΡ [ας].
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