text
nounEtymology
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 texō (“to weave”). Cognate to English texture.
Definitions
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.
- In the morning, you're vexed / He's on to the next / And you didn't even get no text
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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…
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
A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
- German text
To send a text message to
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.
- I'll text the address to you as soon as I find it.
To send and receive text messages.
- Have you been texting all afternoon?
To write in large characters, as in text hand.
- 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
The neighborhood
- neighboralt text
- neighborbody text
- neighbordouble text
- neighbordummy text
- neighborflat text
- neighborglitch text
- neighborhypertext
- neighbormetatext
- neighbornon-linear text
- neighborparallel text
- neighborplain text
- neighborplaintext
Derived
alt text, bi-text, body text, church text, clobber text, context, drunk text, e-text, flavor text, flavour text, here-text, hover text, in-text, meaning-text model, meaning-text theory, 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, text-book, textbook, text box, text door neighbour, text editor, text file, text hook, text hooker, texting · +20 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at text. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at text. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at text
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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