different between text vs recension

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 Latin rec?nsi? (“enumeration; review; reassessment”), from rec?nse? (“to count, reckon; to examine, review; to go over, revise”), from re- (“prefix meaning ‘again’”) (from Proto-Italic *wre (“again”); further etymology uncertain) + c?nse? (“to give an opinion; to suppose, think; to assess”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?n?seh?-, *?n?seye- (“to announce”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????s?n?(?)n/
• (General American) enPR: r?-s?n?sh?n, -s?nsh?n, IPA^(key): /????s?n?(?)n/, [??????s??n(t?)???n], [-?s??n(t?)?n?]
• Rhymes: -?n??n
• Hyphenation UK: re?cens?ion, US: re?cen?sion

Noun

recension (plural recensions)

1. A census, an enumeration, a review, a survey.
2. A critical revision of a text.
3. A text established by critical revision.
4. A family of manuscripts which share similar traits; the variety of a language which is used in such manuscripts.

Derived terms

• recensionist

Related terms

• recense

Translations

See also

• redaction

Further reading

• recension on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ninescore

French

Etymology

From Latin rec?nsi?.

Noun

recension f (plural recensions)

1. critique, review
2. recension

Further reading

• “recension” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Noun

recension c

1. a critique, a review

Declension

Synonyms

• anmälan
• granskning
• kritik

Related terms

• recensera
• recensent

References

• Recension in Svenska Akademiens ordlista öfver svenska språket (6th ed., 1889)