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text | American Dictionary

text
noun[ C/U ]
us/tekst/

textnoun[C/U] (writing)

written or printed material:
[ U ]The text is based on Irish legends.
text
verb[ T ]
us/tekst/

textverb[T] (send)

to send a text message:
If I texted him and didn't see a response within 15 minutes, I would worry.

text | Business English

text
noun
uk /tekst/us
[ U ]
the written words in a book, on the internet, etc., rather than the pictures:
There's still space on the ad for a further piece of text.
We give the address of the website in several places in the printed text.
You can highlight horizontal blocks of text by clicking and dragging the mouse.
[ C ] COMMUNICATIONS
a short written message that you send or receive using a mobile phone; a text message:
get/receive/send a textA third of teenagers send more than 100 texts every day.
This package gives users 300 minutes and 500 texts a month.
 the text of sth
the exact words of a speech, an article, etc.:
Attached is the full text of the speech
text
verb[ T ]
uk /tekst/us
to send someone a written message on a mobile phone:
After texting a code number, users will be able to launch the web-based application on their mobile screen.
Text me when you get out of the interview.
text sth to sb/sthOrder your copy now by texting PROMO to this number.

Examples of text

text
Their approximate position in the text should be indicated by a note in the margin.
Acknowledgments should be made at the end of the text in a separate section.
In comparison to ordinary conversations, less common words are employed in both informational and narrative texts.
The samples themselves are recorded in an ordinary text file.
The environment passes control to an ordinary text-editor of the user's choice, post-processing the resulting file.
The 28 color photographs add to the explanations in the text, and the numerous diagrams and geologic maps, all in colour, deserve much attention.
The text is unique, as it represents the work of a single author, who cogently articulates a systematic approach to psychiatry.
From each of these four programs and for each grade, three reading texts were selected at random.
It has been noted that social reconstructions from these texts vary in a surprising number of ways.
The result is a mass of quantitative material, covered in 159 statistical tables, with much more data included in the text.
The writing style is clear and straightforward and the text is liberally illustrated with figures.
As a result, students were often able to read and understand texts, but they could not per form in the language they were studying.
This will be an invaluable text for teachers of foreign languages, those responsible for training teachers and applied linguists.
While the text is hugely informative, it suffers from a number of important shortcomings.
This can, moreover, include any significant text that enters the public domain.
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Collocations withtext

text

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accompanying text
See infra note 8 and accompanyingtext.
ancient text
To a modern reader, the obscurities of this ancienttext perhaps stand out more than its symbolic value.
biblical text
The opening paragraph does not, to my knowledge, draw upon any particular biblicaltext.
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