Text

Noun

 * 1) A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
 * 2) A book, tome or other set of writings.
 * 3)  A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones; an SMS text message.
 * 4)  Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text (often contrasted with binary data).

Derived terms

 * flat text
 * hypertext
 * plain text
 * pretext
 * running text
 * subtext
 * textbase
 * textbook


 * text box
 * text editor
 * text file
 * text link
 * text message
 * text retrieval
 * textual

Related terms

 * context


 * pretext

Verb

 * 1) 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.
 * Just text me when you get here.
 * 1)  To be occupied for a duration with the act of sending and receiving text messages.
 * Have you been texting all afternoon?

Synonyms

 * message, SMS

Adjectives for Text
trivial; pregnant; trite; faultless; miraculous; holy; sanguine; adopted; descriptive; infallible; authentic; expanded; obscene; widely-used; brilliant; edited.

Verbs for Text
acquaint with—; adhere to—; allude to—; analyze—; bear upon—; contemplate—; contradict—; convey—; copyright—; digress from—; engross in—; explore—; express in —; follow—; heed—; peruse—; ponder—; pore over—; ransack—; regard—; reflect on—; review—; revise—; scan—; scrutinize—; supplement—; tamper with—; transform—; —depicts; —informs; —portrays.

Thesaurus
abecedarium, abecedary, abstract, acknowledgments, adage, advance sheets, advertising matter, alphabet book, ana, analects, aphorism, apothegm, argument, arrangement, article, axiom, back, back matter, basis, bastard title, battledore, bibliography, book, burden, byword, case, casebook, catch line, catchword, chapter, clause, collected sayings, colophon, composite reading, concern, conflation, consideration, content, contents, contents page, continuity, copy, copyright page, critical edition, cue, current saying, dedication, dictate, dictum, diplomatic text, distich, draft, edited text, edition, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet, epigram, errata, essence, exercise book, expression, extract, fascicle, flyleaf, focus, focus of attention, focus of interest, folio, fore edge, foreword, front matter, fundamentals, gathering, gist, gnome, golden saying, gradus, grammar, half-title page, head, heading, hornbook, hymnal, hymnbook, idea, imprint, index, inscription, instrumental score, introduction, issue, leaf, lection, letterpress, libretto, line, lines, living issue, lute tablature, main point, makeup, manual, manual of instruction, matter, matter in hand, maxim, meat, moral, mot, motif, motive, motto, music, music paper, music roll, musical notation, musical score, normalized text, notation, number, opera, opera score, oracle, orchestral score, page, paragraph, part, passage, phrase, piano score, pithy saying, playbook, point, point at issue, point in question, precept, preface, preliminaries, prescript, primer, printed matter, problem, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, question, quotation, reader, reading, reading matter, recto, rendering, rendition, reverso, rubric, running title, saw, saying, scenario, scene plot, scholarly edition, schoolbook, score, script, section, sentence, sententious expression, sheet, sheet music, shooting script, short score, side, signature, sloka, songbook, songster, speller, spelling book, stock saying, subject, subject matter, subject of thought, substance, subtitle, sutra, t, tablature, table of contents, tail, teaching, textbook, theme, title, title page, topic, transcript, transcription, trim size, type page, variant, verse, version, verso, vocal score, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, witticism, word, wording, words, words of wisdom, workbook, written music

Etymology
From textus:, perfect passive participle of texo:.

Noun

 * Afrikaans: teks
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: نص
 * Azeri: mətn
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:, ,  本文,
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Persian: متن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: Nakala
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: матн
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: văn bản
 * Welsh: testun


 * Afrikaans: teks
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Afrikaans: SMS
 * Arabic: رسالة,  ميسيج,  إس إم إس,  رسالة إس إم إس
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, メッセージ, , エス・エム・エス
 * Russian:,  месседж ,  СМС,  эс-эм-эс,   эсэмэска
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Volapük: vödanunil
 * Welsh: neges destun

Verb

 * Afrikaans: SMS
 * Czech: písnout


 * Dutch:
 * Welsh: tecstio

Noun

 * a

Etymology
From textus:, perfect passive participle of texo:.

Noun

 * 1) throne
 * 2) bed
 * 3) wood, tree

Etymology
From

Related terms

 * textî
 * textîn
 * textînî

Noun

 * 1) text