TEXT


Meaning of TEXT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ tekst ]

( texts, texting, texted)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

The text of a book is the main part of it, rather than the introduction, pictures, or notes.

The text is precise and informative.

N-SING : the N

2.

Text is any written material.

A CD-ROM can store more than 250,000 pages of typed text.

N-UNCOUNT

3.

The text of a speech, broadcast, or recording is the written version of it.

A spokesman said a text of Dr Runcie’s speech had been circulated to all of the bishops.

N-COUNT : usu sing , usu N of n

4.

A text is a book or other piece of writing, especially one connected with science or learning.

Her text is believed to be the oldest surviving manuscript by a female physician.

N-COUNT

5.

A text is a written or spoken passage, especially one that is used in a school or university for discussion or in an examination.

His early plays are set texts in universities.

N-COUNT

6.

A text is the same as a text message .

I borrowed my wife’s mobile phone last week and a text arrived from another man.

N-COUNT

7.

If you text someone, you send them a text message on a mobile phone.

Mary texted me when she got home.

VERB : V n

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