text
noun
- object that can be "read" by reader; result of writing
- send a text message via cell phone
verb
- to send an SMS message from a mobile phone
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /tɛkst/
noun
Etymology: 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.
- 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”
- 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.
“German text”
verb
Etymology: 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.
- 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 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.”