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text
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)
- A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
- A book, tome or other set of writings.
- (colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.
- Synonym: text message
- (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
- Coordinate term: plain text
- Antonym: binary
- A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
- (by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
- Synonyms: topic, theme
- (printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
- Synonym: text hand
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
text (third-person singular simple present texts, present participle texting, simple past and past participle texted or (nonstandard) text)
- (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
- (intransitive) To send and receive text messages.
- (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)
- 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
- 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
- throne
- bed
- 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)
- text
References
- text in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
text c
- text
Declension
text From the web:
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- what text features are included in this text
- what text results in variable whitespace
- what texture is my hair
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texts
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?ksts/, /t?ks/
Usage notes
- Pronunciation as /t?ks/ comes about due to difficulty pronouncing the cluster /ksts/. Some people have enough difficulty with this word that it comes out as /t?ks?s/, homophonous with Texas.
Noun
texts
- plural of text
Verb
texts
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of text
Catalan
Alternative forms
- textos
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?tests/
Noun
texts
- plural of text
Swedish
Noun
texts
- indefinite genitive singular of text
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