Look up: text

1. text
   [n] - a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon 2. [n] - the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.) 3. [n] - the words of something written
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2. Text
   any piece of writing or object being studied
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3. Text
   (Text (textual)) Within linguistics, the word 'text' means any continuous and coherent sequence of writing or speech. See also discourse.…
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4. Text
   The main body of a book exclusive of front matter or back matter such as appendices, notes etc
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5. Text
   language organised to communicate. Includes written, spoken and electronic forms.
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6. Text
   The written or printed material that forms the main body of a publication.
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7. Text
   although this term includes the kind of thing we usually mean by 'text' (eg: a written document) under the conditions of the literary turn, structuralism and poststructuralism the term can be applied to almost any object in the world. Semioticians, for example, have considered items as diverse as wr...
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8. text
   a sequence of characters forming part of a transmission,which is transmitted as an entity to the ultimate destination and which contains the information to be conveyed Category: News-systems and communications • information for human comprehension that is intended for presentation in a t...
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9. Text
   Text (tĕkst) noun [ French texte , Latin textus , texture, structure, context, from texere , textum , to weave, construct, compose; confer Greek te`ktwn carpenter, Sanskrit taksh to cut, carve, make....
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10. Text
    Text transitive verb To write in large characters, as in text hand. [ Obsolete] Beau. & Fl.
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11. text
    textual matter noun 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`
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12. Text
    • (n.) 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. • (n.) A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text. • ...
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13. text
    (from the article `textual criticism`) the technique of restoring texts as nearly as possible to their original form. Texts in this connection are defined as writings other than formal ...
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14. text
    
    • the words of something written
    • a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon
    • a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
    • the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)
    
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15. Text
    Body matter of a page or book as distinguished from the headings.
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16. Text
    The text of a film is not simply the script, as it would be comparably in literature. A text is a composite entity consisting of the relationships developed between the language, lighting, acting, images, shots, editing, sound, properties and settings
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17. 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 ...
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18. TEXT
    `TEXT` is the band founded by Kristofer Steen, David Sandström, Fredrik Bäckström and Jon F Brännström. All, except Bäckström, were ex-members of hardcore band Refused. Stylistically, they have little in common with Refused apart from this fact. Their debut album, Text, is a mix...
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19. Text
    (literary theory) A `text`, within literary theory, is a coherent set of symbols that transmits some kind of informative message. This set of symbols is considered in terms of the informative message`s content, rather than in terms of its physical form or the medium in which it is repr...
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