different between text vs newline

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

new +? line, coined at Bell Laboratories while developing the C programming language and UNIX operating systems.

Noun

newline (plural newlines)

1. (computing) The character or character sequence that indicates the end of a line of text and transition to the next line; or, a control code or escape sequence used in a programming language to denote this character.

   Microsoft Windows uses CRLF for newline.

   • 1959, Association for Computing Machinery, Communications of the ACM (ACM Digital Library) Page 599

     The ugly part is the quote marks on two adjacent lines that mean a newline character.

   • 1987, T. D. Brown, C for Basic Programmers Page 13

     The calculator program starts off by printing the string "0\n", that is, it prints a zero and then moves to a newline.

   • 2002, Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days, Page 69

     Unlike in C, you don't have to loop through the output and watch every character to make sure it's a newline; Perl will keep track of that for you.

   • 2002, Allen B. Downey, Jeffrey Elkner and Chris Meyers, How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python

     It contains only a single statement, which outputs a newline character. (That's what happens when you use a print command without any arguments.)

   • 2006, Jeffrey E.F. Friedl, Mastering Regular Expressions Page 111

     The original Unix regex tools worked on a line-by-line basis, so the thought of matching a newline wasn't an issue until the advent of sed and lex.

Synonyms

• line break
• end-of-line

See also

• control code
• control character
• escape character
• escape sequence