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English

Etymology

From Latin textus, past participle of texo (“‘to weave’”)

Pronunciation

Noun

Singular text

Plural countable and uncountable; plural texts

text (countable and uncountable; plural texts)

  1. A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
  2. A book, tome or other set of writings.
  3. (colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones; an SMS text message.
  4. (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text (often contrasted with binary data).

Derived terms

terms derived from text

Related terms

terms related to text

Verb

Infinitive to text

Third person singular texts

Simple past texted

Past participle texted

Present participle texting

to text (third-person singular simple present texts, present participle texting, simple past and past participle texted)

  1. 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.
  2. (intransitive) To be occupied for a duration with the act of sending and receiving text messages.
    Have you been texting all afternoon?

Synonyms

Translations

send a text message to
  • Czech: písnout
  • Dutch: sms'en nl(nl)
  • Welsh: tecstio cy(cy)

Kurdish

Etymology

From Persian

Noun

text m.

  1. throne
  2. bed
  3. wood, tree

Related terms

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

Inflection for text Singular Plural
common Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative text texten texter texterna
Genitive texts textens texters texternas

text c.

  1. text

 

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