Meaning of "text" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TEXT

From Medieval Latin textus version, from Latin textus texture, from texere to compose.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF TEXT

text  [tɛkst]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TEXT

Text is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb text in English.

WHAT DOES TEXT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Text

Text may refer to: ▪ Text, an academic journal of language, discourse, and communication studies ▪ Text, any object that can be "read", including literature and other objects ▪ Textbook, a manual of instruction in any branch of study ▪ Religious text, writings which various religious traditions consider to be sacred ▪ Written text, communication that represents language through the inscription of signs and symbols...

Definition of text in the English dictionary

The first definition of text in the dictionary is the main body of a printed or written work as distinct from commentary, notes, illustrations, etc. Other definition of text is the words of something printed or written. Text is also a book prescribed as part of a course of study.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO TEXT

PRESENT

Present

I text

you text

he/she/it texts

we text

you text

they text

Present continuous

I am texting

you are texting

he/she/it is texting

we are texting

you are texting

they are texting

Present perfect

I have texted

you have texted

he/she/it has texted

we have texted

you have texted

they have texted

Present perfect continuous

I have been texting

you have been texting

he/she/it has been texting

we have been texting

you have been texting

they have been texting

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I texted

you texted

he/she/it texted

we texted

you texted

they texted

Past continuous

I was texting

you were texting

he/she/it was texting

we were texting

you were texting

they were texting

Past perfect

I had texted

you had texted

he/she/it had texted

we had texted

you had texted

they had texted

Past perfect continuous

I had been texting

you had been texting

he/she/it had been texting

we had been texting

you had been texting

they had been texting

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will text

you will text

he/she/it will text

we will text

you will text

they will text

Future continuous

I will be texting

you will be texting

he/she/it will be texting

we will be texting

you will be texting

they will be texting

Future perfect

I will have texted

you will have texted

he/she/it will have texted

we will have texted

you will have texted

they will have texted

Future perfect continuous

I will have been texting

you will have been texting

he/she/it will have been texting

we will have been texting

you will have been texting

they will have been texting

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would text

you would text

he/she/it would text

we would text

you would text

they would text

Conditional continuous

I would be texting

you would be texting

he/she/it would be texting

we would be texting

you would be texting

they would be texting

Conditional perfect

I would have text

you would have text

he/she/it would have text

we would have text

you would have text

they would have text

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been texting

you would have been texting

he/she/it would have been texting

we would have been texting

you would have been texting

they would have been texting

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you text
we let´s text
you text

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to text

Past participle

texted

Present Participle

texting

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «TEXT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «text» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of text

argument · body · book · content · contents · extract · line · matter · MMS · motif · narrative · paragraph · passage · reader · reference book · script · sentence · sext · SMS · source · subject · subject matter · text message · textbook · theme · thesis · topic · transcript · verse · wording · words

TRANSLATION OF TEXT

Find out the translation of text to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of text from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «text» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 文案
• Translator English - Spanish: texto
• English: text
• Translator English - Hindi: पाठ
• Translator English - Arabic: نَصّ
• Translator English - Russian: текст
• Translator English - Portuguese: texto
• Translator English - Bengali: পাঠ
• Translator English - French: texte
• Translator English - Malay: Teks
• Translator English - German: Text
• Translator English - Japanese: 本文
• Translator English - Korean: 본문
• Translator English - Javanese: Teks
• Translator English - Vietnamese: bài văn
• Translator English - Tamil: உரை
• Translator English - Marathi: मजकूर
• Translator English - Turkish: Metin
• Translator English - Italian: testo
• Translator English - Polish: tekst
• Translator English - Ukrainian: текст
• Translator English - Romanian: text
• Translator English - Greek: κείμενο
• Translator English - Afrikaans: teks
• Translator English - Swedish: text
• Translator English - Norwegian: tekst

10 QUOTES WITH «TEXT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word text.

1

Colin Angle

I was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to call the plumber. I told her I would fix it and asked her to get my Richard Scarry book 'How Things Work in Busytown.' Between the picture of a toilet and the text she read to me explaining how the parts worked, I fixed it.

2

Ed Balls

I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

3

Ruzwana Bashir

If millions of Americans choose to weigh in on the outcome of 'American Idol' through text messages and the Web, then why not harness similar technological tools to encourage discourse on the political landscape?

4

Garcelle Beauvais

It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.

5

Joan Blades

What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?

6

Israel Broussard

Every once in the while I'll watch 'Duck Dynasty' and 'Kim & Kourtney Take Miami,' but outside of that, I don't really watch TV. Also, I don't text anybody, I'm hardly on Twitter or Instagram, and I'm very closed off. I'm kind of a hermit.

7

Tom Chatfield

Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin and end with writing: text messages, status updates, typed search queries, comments and responses, screens packed with verbal exchanges and, underpinning it all, countless billions of words.

8

Tom Chatfield

Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else. They now occupy the same space, not only as every other digital text, but as every other medium, too.

9

Eldridge Cleaver

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

10

Sebastian Coe

I've never sent an email in my life. My kids laugh. I often hand the phone to them and say, 'Can you text this message to somebody.' I don't even have a computer on my desk.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TEXT»

Discover the use of text in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to text and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Text Book: Writing Through Literature

Designed for literature-based writing courses, Text Book introduces students to the idea that literary texts and ordinary spoken and written language share many of the same features.

Robert Scholes, Nancy R. Comley, Gregory L. Ulmer, 2001

Image-Music-Text

The photographic message.

Roland Barthes, Stephen Heath, 1978

Text: The Genealogy of an Antidisciplinary Object

"This book analyzes and provides a history of the theory of the text,' which has been a central doctrine in literary and cultural criticism over the past twenty-five or so years.

John Mowitt, 1992

Contract Law: Text, Cases, and Materials

This is an account of the modern law of contract by a leading authority in the field.

Ewan McKendrick, 2012

The Text Mining Handbook: Advanced Approaches in Analyzing ...

The Text Mining Handbook presents a comprehensive discussion of the state-of-the-art in text mining and link detection.

Ronen Feldman, James Sanger, 2006

The World, the Text, and the Critic

Argues that contemporary critics force works of literature to fit their theories and examines the impact of Marxism, linguistics, psychoanalysis, and structuralism on literary criticism

Edward W. Said, 1983

An Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis

This book is of interest to researchers and students in phonetics and speech communication, in both academia and industry.

Thierry Dutoit, 1997

Text and Technology: In Honour of John Sinclair

An extensive index further enhances the value of this collection as a reference point for many of the issues that currently lie at the heart of modern linguistics enquiry

Mona Baker, Gill Francis, Elena Tognini-Bonelli, 1993

Text Processing in Python

A companion Web site (http: //gnosis.cx/TPiP) contains source code and examples from the book. Here is some of what you will find in thie book: When do I use formal parsers to process structured and semi-structured data?

David Mertz, 2003

Is There a Text in this Class?: The Authority of ...

Essays reexamine the fundamental assumptions of literary criticism, and the debate about interpretation, and offer a fresh approach to thinking about literature

Stanley Eugene Fish, 1980

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TEXT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term text is used in the context of the following news items.

Major Flaw In Android Phones Would Let Hackers In With Just A Text

Android is the most popular mobile operating system on Earth: About 80 percent of smartphones run on it. And, according to mobile security experts at the firm ... «NPR, Jul 15»

Text message sent on attacker's phone leads police to woman who …

Beaten and raped and her cellphone taken away, a woman who was kidnapped in Tennessee was able to get access to her attacker's phone and send a text ... «Fox News, Jun 15»

Size matters: How to increase text size on Apple Watch

If you're having a hard time seeing the text on your Apple Watch, too, you might consider increasing the font size for apps that use Dynamic Text. Here's how. «Cult of Mac, Jun 15»

Apple's fix for the iPhone-crashing text bug

A text message bug that crashes an iPhone's messaging app or shuts down the phone went viral Wednesday. In lieu of a full security update to fix the problem at ... «CBS News, May 15»

This Single Text Message Can Crash Your iPhone

A single line of text, sent via text message, has the power to crash an iPhone. The bug, which popped up on Reddit Tuesday afternoon, can force a recipient's ... «Huffington Post, May 15»

Woman Claims Airline Wouldn't Let Her Call for Help After …

A woman says her Southwest flight crew wouldn't let her place an emergency call after receiving a text from her husband warning of his suicide right before ... «NBC Chicago, May 15»

Missouri House Speaker John Diehl admits sexually charged …

JEFFERSON CITY —Text messages obtained by The Star reveal a sexually charged relationship between House Speaker John Diehl and a college freshman in ... «Kansas City Star, May 15»

San Francisco arrests under review after officers' slur-filled texts …

(CNN) At least 3,000 arrests in the past decade are under review in San Francisco in a widening scandal over how police officers allegedly wrote racist and ... «CNN, May 15»

'U Drive. U Text. U Pay.' campaign begins Friday across Alabama

U Text. U Pay." is sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which estimates in 2013 distracted driving-related crashes accounted for 10 ... «AL.com, Apr 15»

SF police chief: 8 officers deserve firing over text messages

In announcing the proposed purge, the chief is seeking to show he has a firm grip on conduct in his force after critics questioned whether the text messages ... «SFGate, Apr 15»