I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a text file
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The text file contains hints on how to get the best out of the program.
a text message (= a written message that you receive on your mobile phone )
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Her phone kept beeping whenever she got a text message.
biblical story/text/reference
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the biblical story of Noah
text message
text message
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She’s always text messaging her friends.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
biblical
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In this way, apparent contradictions between Copernican astronomy and biblical texts would be eliminated.
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Most of these are paraphrases of biblical texts , and like hymns they vary in theological emphasis and musical appropriateness.
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The altered states, the plangent electronic keyboards, and her use of Biblical text all conspire to create a portentous sound.
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The biblical text suggests simply that he spoke of them, knowledgeable man that he was.
literary
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It largely disappears when literary texts are treated as cultural traces in a cognitive rather than an affective reading.
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It still remains the case pace Freeman that a literary text like King Lear is not definitively explicable.
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Increasingly, literary texts are becoming available in computerised form.
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For Brooks, Wimsatt and Beardsley complexity and coherence together constitute the key considerations in the analysis of literary texts .
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We considered media education largely as part of the exploration of contemporary culture, alongside more traditional literary texts .
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For the production-model of the literary text is a very academic one.
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Nineteenth and twentieth-century literary texts are also studied through lectures and tutorials.
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Truth is similarly found to have no real status in the literary text .
original
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This represented the honours system at its most farcical, said Mr Wilson's original text .
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Queries can be processed even with errors in both queries and the original text .
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This means that the original word processor text file gets behind in the alterations.
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The original text of the poem was later restored.
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Textual criticism Textual criticism is concerned with recovering the original text of a document.
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For a supplement expresses what can not be said in the original text .
written
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There is a clearly written text with an illustrated chronology of the country's history taking it up to 1992.
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The incorporation of hand written text placed on top of the photographs referenced women's un acknowledged areas of writing, diaries and letters.
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Indeed, the conditions of Elizabethan and later Stuart regulation of drama required a written text .
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The approach is conceptual and skills-based, with extensive use of audio-visual resources, fieldwork and written texts .
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These variations can include the use of signs and diagrams to replace, or partly replace, written text .
■ NOUN
file
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The input file in the example below is a text file produced by a word-processor.
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You laid out your publication by selecting a text file and pasting it on the page.
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It allows a separate header text file to point to the file or files to be stored.
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You can view text files by clicking on them.
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This way you don't need an editor to view a text file .
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It's quite magical to watch a Wordstar text file being converted directly into MacWrite without any interference from the user.
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This means that the original word processor text file gets behind in the alterations.
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However, the text file describing the circuit requires some long hours studying the manual.
message
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He shows her a text message sent by Emily asking how the field trip is going.
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If the software detects unusual activity on an account, it will send a text message to the mobile phone.
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However, the spokesman said it will contact the body before any text messages are sent out.
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Amnesty International is also harnessing text messages to apply speedy pressure on governments to release political prisoners.
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Almost all users sent and received text messages .
recognition
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Analogously, computerised text recognition needs to use higher level knowledge to achieve comparable levels of performance.
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An ulterior motive for performing text recognition is to convert existing printed material into a computer format that permits further processing.
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The development of reliable text recognition procedures would serve two important functions.
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Conclusions A probabilistic syntax processor has been developed to assist in the selection of the correct words for a text recognition system.
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There are difficulties associated with automatic text recognition however.
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Existing systems for performing text recognition are susceptible to errors.
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For an automatic text recognition system to succeed it should exploit as much of the higher level information as is computationally possible.
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Incorporation of some of the linguistic information that humans employ is necessary to improve text recognition systems.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
set book/text etc
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But not in his set books!
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Galsworthy was a set book: I felt I knew the Forsyte Saga by heart.
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One of the set texts for Advent dealt with the birth of John the Baptist.
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So was Naipaul, the writer of a book which was a classroom set text.
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When a graphics element is placed on a page there is now an option to set text wraparound.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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religious texts
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The front page had no text , just a photograph of the Princess and a huge headline.
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The word processor automatically divides your text into pages.
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You can cut and paste whole blocks of text very easily on screen.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Finally, the Appendix contains a short bibliography that includes mostly those works to which references are made in the text .
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Handwritten text , either cursive or hand-printed, is much more difficult to recognise than printed text.
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He thought she just wanted to glance at something in the text and he let her take It.
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The texts I selected are all written by male philosophers.
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Those changes appear to be so great that they will certainly still be affecting readers of this text in the 1990s.
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We can only hope Gilstrap won't push to have any of that text deleted.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Text me as soon as you get your exam results.
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My daughter spends nearly all her time either on the phone or texting her friends.