TEXT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does text mean? 

• TEXT (noun)
  The noun TEXT has 4 senses:

1. the words of something written

2. a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon

3. a book prepared for use in schools or colleges

4. the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)

  Familiarity information: TEXT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEXT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The words of something written

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

text; textual matter

Context example:

he wants to reconstruct the original text

Hypernyms ("text" is a kind of...):

matter (written works (especially in books or magazines))

Meronyms (parts of "text"):

book (a major division of a long written composition)

chapter (a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled)

foreword; preface; prolusion (a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book)

paragraph (one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line)

passage (a section of text; particularly a section of medium length)

word order (the order of words in a text)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "text"):

cookie (a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site)

stanza (a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem)

language; lyric; words (the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number)

lipogram (a text that excludes a particular letter or particular letters of the alphabet)

line (text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen)

letter; missive (a written message addressed to a person or organization)

installment; instalment (a part of a published serial)

electronic text (text that is in a form that computer can store or display on a computer screen)

draft; draft copy (any of the various versions in the development of a written work)

copy; written matter (matter to be printed; exclusive of graphical materials)

column (a page or text that is vertically divided)

Holonyms ("text" is a part of...):

publication (a copy of a printed work offered for distribution)

Derivation:

textual (of or relating to or based on a text)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

the preacher chose a text from Psalms to introduce his sermon

Hypernyms ("text" is a kind of...):

passage (a section of text; particularly a section of medium length)

Holonyms ("text" is a part of...):

Bible; Book; Christian Bible; Good Book; Holy Scripture; Holy Writ; Scripture; Word; Word of God (the sacred writings of the Christian religions)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A book prepared for use in schools or colleges

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

school text; schoolbook; text; text edition; textbook

Context example:

the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy

Hypernyms ("text" is a kind of...):

book (a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "text"):

crammer (a textbook designed for cramming)

introduction (a basic or elementary instructional text)

primer (an introductory textbook)

reader (one of a series of texts for students learning to read)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

pictures made the text easier to understand

Hypernyms ("text" is a kind of...):

matter (written works (especially in books or magazines))

Derivation:

textual (of or relating to or based on a text)

 Context examples 

He went back to the text and lost himself.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Having been converted from text into code so as to be unintelligible to unauthorized parties.

(Encrypted, NCI Thesaurus)

NOTE(S): This may contain more detail than the description present in the text part of a coded concept.

(Defined Activity Description, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The standardized text associated with a code in a particular code system.

(Display Name, NCI Thesaurus)

The writer of a book, article, or other text.

(Author, NCI Thesaurus)

NOTE(S): In the context of BRIDG, text modification occurs a single time for a given instance of originalText.

(Performed Observation Result Result Code Modified Text, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The exact names, codes and text that can be stored in a data field in an information management system.

(Permissible Value, NCI Thesaurus)

A data type comprised of encapsulated data in the form of text.

(Encapsulated Data Text Data Type, NCI Thesaurus)

An explanatory note placed below the text on a page.

(Footnote, NCI Thesaurus)

Miss Nash has put down all the texts he has ever preached from since he came to Highbury.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)