different between text vs melisma

English

Etymology

From Middle English text, from Old French texte (“text”), from Medieval Latin textus (“the Scriptures, text, treatise”), from Latin textus (“style or texture of a work”), perfect passive participle of tex? (“I weave”). Cognate to English texture.

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?kst, IPA^(key): /t?kst/
• Rhymes: -?kst
• Hyphenation: text

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.

   Synonym: text message

4. (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.

   Coordinate term: plain text

   Antonym: binary

5. A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
6. (by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.

   Synonyms: topic, theme

7. (printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.

   Synonym: text hand

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Verb

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

1. (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.

   Synonyms: message, (UK) SMS

2. (intransitive) To send and receive text messages.

3. (dated) To write in large characters, as in text hand.

Translations

Further reading

• Text in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• text at OneLook Dictionary Search
• text in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• text in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin textus (“text”), from Latin textus, perfect passive participle of tex? (“weave”), attested from the 14th century.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?tekst/

Noun

text m (plural texts or textos)

1. text

Related terms

• textual

References

Further reading

• “text” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “text” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “text” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Noun

text m

1. text

Declension

Derived terms

• otextovat
• podtext
• texta?
• textovat
• textovka
• textový

Further reading

• text in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• text in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Persian ???? (taxt).

Noun

text m

1. throne
2. bed
3. wood, tree

Related terms

• textî
• textîn
• textînî

References

• Cabolov, R. L. (2010) Etimologi?eskij slovar? kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 389

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French texte, Latin textus.

Noun

text n (plural texte)

1. text

References

• text in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

text c

1. text

Declension

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (mélisma, “song”), from ?????? (melíz?, “(I) sing, modulate; (I) celebrate in song”), from ????? (mélos, “song, tune, melody; limb, part; member”)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /m??l?zm?/

Noun

melisma (plural melismas or melismata)

1. (music) A passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text, as in Gregorian chant.
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 38:

     At the top of the hill in the archway of the main house, an eyeless old man sat on a bucket, scratching at a two-stringed gourd, warbling weird melismas on a madman's text.

   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

     A choir sang one of the Lamentations of Jeremiah. The mournful melisma accompanied the slow procession to the palace built by Herod the Great, at present untenanted.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:melisma.

Translations

References

• melisma in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• lammies

Czech

Noun

melisma n

1. (music) melisma

Derived terms

• melismatický
• melismaticky
• melismatika

Further reading

• melisma in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• melisma in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Portuguese

Noun

melisma m (plural melismas)

1. (music) melisma (a passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text)

Spanish

Noun

melisma m (plural melismas)

1. melisma