Deeper Dive: text
QuotesWhat is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you’d like it to mean? Antonin Scalia
I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude. Willie Nelson
LyricsSo I've been waiting for a text back or waiting for an answer
Waiting for acknowledgement, so tell me what your plans are
Waiting for a phone call, so I can hear you tell me, "No"
Last time you meant "I love you" was a week ago
text Back by Love - Sadkid
Collocationstext back
text message
text book
text noun[F. texte, L. textus, texture, structure, context, fr. texere, textum, to weave, construct, compose; cf. Gr. τέκτων carpenter, Skr. taksh to cut, carve, make. Cf. Context, Mantle, noun, 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.
2. (O. Eng. Law) The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence. [R.]
3. A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.How oft, when Paul has served us with a text,4. Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme.
Has Epictetus, Plato, Tully, preached! Cowper.
5. A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text. Text blindness (Physiol.)See Word blindness, under Word.Text lettera large or capital letter. [Obs.]Text pena kind of metallic pen used in engrossing, or in writing text-hand.Text transitive verb To write in large characters, as in text hand. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
-- Webster's unabridged 1913
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