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Text Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Text?

[n] 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"
[n] the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.); "pictures made the text easier to understand"
[n] 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"
[n] 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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Text: school text | schoolbook | text edition | textbook | textual matter

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See Also | Bible | book | chapter | copy | crammer | draft | draft copy | electronic text | foreword | Good Book | hard copy | Holy Scripture | Holy Writ | installment | instalment | introduction | language | letter | line | lyric | matter | missive | paragraph | passage | preface | primer | prolusion | publication | reader | Scripture | stanza | Word | Word of God | word order | words | written matter

Text In Webster's Dictionary

\Text\ (t[e^]kst), n. [F. texte, L. textus, texture, structure, context, fr. texere, textum, to weave, construct, compose; cf. Gr. te`ktwn carpenter, Skr. taksh to cut, carve, make. Cf. {Context}, {Mantle}, n., {Pretext}, {Tissue}, {Toil} a snare.] 1. A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or commentary. --Chaucer. 2. (O. Eng. Law) The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence. [R.] 3. A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine. How oft, when Paul has served us with a text, Has Epictetus, Plato, Tully, preached! --Cowper. 4. Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme. 5. A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text. {Text blindness}. (Physiol.) See {Word blindness}, under {Word}. {Text letter}, a large or capital letter. [Obs.] {Text pen}, a kind of metallic pen used in engrossing, or in writing text-hand.
\Text\, v. t. To write in large characters, as in text hand. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.

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