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Text : (noun)
1: 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" [syn: textual matter]
2: 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"
3: 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"
[syn: textbook, text edition, schoolbook, school
text] [ant: trade book]
4: the main body of a written work (as distinct from
illustrations or footnotes etc.); "pictures made the text
easier to understand"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Text : \Text\, v. t.
To write in large characters, as in text hand. [Obs.] --Beau.
& Fl.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Text : \Text\ (t[e^]kst), n. [F. texte, L. textus, texture,
structure, context, fr. texere, textum, to weave, construct,
compose; cf. Gr. te`ktwn carpenter, Skr. taksh to cut, carve,
make. Cf. Context, Mantle, n., Pretext, Tissue,
Toil a snare.]
1. A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary
is written; the original words of an author, in
distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or commentary.
--Chaucer.
2. (O. Eng. Law) The four Gospels, by way of distinction or
eminence. [R.]
3. A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as
the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
How oft, when Paul has served us with a text, Has
Epictetus, Plato, Tully, preached! --Cowper.
4. Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument,
literary composition, or the like; topic; theme.
5. A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a
kind of type used in printing; as, German text.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Text :
1. Executable code, especially a "pure code" portion shared
between multiple instances of a program running in a
multitasking operating system.
Compare English.
2. Textual material in the mainstream sense; data in ordinary
ASCII or EBCDIC representation (see flat ASCII). "Those
are text files; you can review them using the editor."
These two contradictory senses confuse hackers too.
[{Jargon File]
(1995-03-16)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Text : n. 1. [techspeak] Executable code, esp. a `pure code' portion
shared between multiple instances of a program running in a multitasking
OS. Compare English. 2. Textual material in the mainstream sense; data
{ASCII">in ordinary {ASCII or {EBCDIC} representation (see flat-ASCII).
"Those are text files; you can review them using the editor." These two
contradictory senses confuse hackers, too.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Example Usage of Text |
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