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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Text \Text\ (t[e^]kst), n. [F. texte, L. textus, texture, structure, context, fr. texere, textum, to weave, construct, compose; cf. Gr. te`ktwn carpenter, Skr. taksh to cut, carve, make. Cf. {Context}, {Mantle}, n., {Pretext}, {Tissue}, {Toil} a snare.] 1. 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. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. (O. Eng. Law) The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence. [R.] [1913 Webster] 3. A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine. [1913 Webster] How oft, when Paul has served us with a text, Has Epictetus, Plato, Tully, preached! --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 4. Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme. [1913 Webster] 5. A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text. [1913 Webster] 6. That part of a document (printed or electronic) comprising the words, especially the main body of expository words, in contrast to the illustrations, pictures, charts, tables, or other formatted material which contain graphic elements as a major component. [PJC] 7. Any communication composed of words. [PJC] 8. a textbook. [PJC] {Text blindness}. (Physiol.) See {Word blindness}, under {Word}. {Text letter}, a large or capital letter. [Obs.] {Text pen}, a kind of metallic pen used in engrossing, or in writing text-hand. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Text \Text\, v. t. To write in large characters, as in text hand. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: text n 1: 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" [syn: {text}, {textual matter}] 2: a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon; "the preacher chose a text from Psalms to introduce his sermon" 3: a book prepared for use in schools or colleges; "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy" [syn: {textbook}, {text}, {text edition}, {schoolbook}, {school text}] [ant: {trade book}, {trade edition}] 4: the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.); "pictures made the text easier to understand" From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: text n. 1. [techspeak] Executable code, esp. a pure code portion shared between multiple instances of a program running in a multitasking OS. Compare {English}. 2. Textual material in the mainstream sense; data in ordinary {ASCII} or {EBCDIC} representation (see {flat-ASCII}). ?Those are text files; you can review them using the editor.? These two contradictory senses confuse hackers, too. From Swedish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-swe-eng]: text lyric; text From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Text /tɛkst/ lyrics; text; words From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Text... /tɛkst/ textual