text

Plural: texts

Noun

• The main body of a written or printed work.
• the words of something written
  • "there were more than a thousand words of text"
  • "they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech"
  • "he wants to reconstruct the original text"
• a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon
  • "the preacher chose a text from Psalms to introduce his sermon"
• a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
  • "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"
  • "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy"
• the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)
  • "pictures made the text easier to understand"
• A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
• A book, tome or other set of writings.
• Ellipsis of text message, a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.
• Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
• A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
• Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
• A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.

Verb

• 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.
• To send and receive text messages.
• To write in large characters, as in text hand.

Examples

• German text
• Have you been texting all afternoon?
• He analyzed the text of the Scrabble board, looking for patterns and openings.
• I'll text the address to you as soon as I find it.
• Just text me when you get here.

Synonyms

school text, schoolbook, text edition, textbook, textual matter, SMS, message, text hand, theme, topic

Antonyms

trade edition, binary