text
Sistem
Etymology
From Srednji Engleski text, from Stari Francuski texte (“text”), from Medieval Latin textus (“the Scriptures, text, treatise”), from Latinski textus (“style or texture of a work”), perfect passive participle of texō (“I weave”). Cognate to Engleski texture.
Pronunciation
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.
- Sinonim: text message
- (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
- Antonim: binary
- Koordinatni termin: plain text
- 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.
- (printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
- Sinonim: text hand
- German text
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- alt text
- bi-text
- body text
- church text
- clobber text
- context
- drunk text
- e-text
- flavor text
- flavour text
- here-text
- hover text
- parallel text
- predictive text
- pretext
- rich text
- sex-text
- sexting
- small text
- source text
- splash text
- stick to one's text
- subtext
- taproot text
- target text
- text adventure
- textbase
- text-based
- textbook
- text-book
- text box
- text door neighbour
- text editor
- text file
- text hook
- text hooker
- texting
- text linguistics
- text link
- text message
- text messaging
- text neck
- textonym
- text painting
- text retrieval
- text simplification
- text tennis
- text type
- text-type
- textual
- text wall
- timed text
- Ur-text
- ur-text
- visual text
- wall of text
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Verb
text (third-person singular simple present texts, present participle texting, simple past and past participle texted or (colloquial) 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.
- (intransitive) To send and receive text messages.
- Have you been texting all afternoon?
- (dated) To write in large characters, as in text hand.
- 1607–21, Phillip Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret, act 2, scene 1:
- I wish / (Next to my part of Heav'n) that she would spend / The last part of her life so here, that all / Indifferent judges might condemn me for / A most malicious slanderer, nay, text it / Upon my forehead
- 2009, Lain Fenlon, Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music[1] (Music), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page p. 223:
- The basic plan is simple. For the first two phrases the texted line is above the untexted; for the next two, bring us to the midpoint cadence, the texted line is for the most part lower; and the in the second half the texted material starts lower, moves into the upper position and finally occupies the bottom range again.
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Further reading
- Šablon:R:Britannica 1911
- text at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Šablon:R:Keywords 21st
- text in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Catalan
Etymology
Pozajmljeno od Medieval Latin textus (“text”), from Latinski textus, perfect passive participle of texō (“weave”). First attested in the 14th century.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
text m (plural texts or textos)
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References
Further reading
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
Lua greška in Modul:cs-headword at line 76: Parameter 1 is not used by this template..
- text
- text knihy ― the text of the book
- text písně ― lyrics
- text smlouvy ― the text of the contract
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Further reading
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
Noun
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Rumunski
Rumunski
Etymology
Pozajmljeno od Francuski texte, Latinski textus.
Pronunciation
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Imenica
text n (plural texte)
References
- text in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
text c
Declension
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Nominative | text | texten | texter | texterna |
Genitive | texts | textens | texters | texternas |