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a book or other written or printed work, regarded in terms of its content rather than its physical form.

"a text that explores pain and grief"

• a piece of written or printed material regarded as conveying the authentic or primary form of a particular work.

  "in some passages it is difficult to establish the original text"

• written or printed words, typically forming a connected piece of work.

  "stylistic features of journalistic text"

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  data in the form of words or alphabetic characters.

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2. 2.

   the main body of a book or other piece of writing, as distinct from other material such as notes, appendices, and illustrations.

   "the pictures are clear and relate well to the text"

   synonyms:

   words, wording, writing; More content, body, main body; narrative, story "the pictures are clear and relate well to the text"

   • a script or libretto.

3. 3.

   a written work chosen or assigned as a subject of study.

   "the book is intended as a secondary text for religion courses"

   • a textbook.

     synonyms:

     textbook, book, material "academic texts"

   • a passage from the Bible or other religious work, especially when used as the subject of a sermon.

     synonyms:

     passage, extract, excerpt, quotation, verse, line; reading "a text from the First Book of Samuel"

   • a subject or theme for a discussion or exposition.

     "he took as his text the fact that Australia is paradise"

4. 4.

   a text message.

5. 5.

   fine, large handwriting, used especially for manuscripts.

verb

verb: text; 3rd person present: texts; past tense: texted; past participle: texted; gerund or present participle: texting

1. 1.

   send a text message to.

   "I thought it was fantastic that he took the trouble to text me"

Origin

late Middle English: from Old Northern French texte, from Latin textus ‘tissue, literary style’ (in medieval Latin, ‘Gospel’), from text- ‘woven,’ from the verb texere .

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