text

plural texts

1. countableuncountableA writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
2. countableuncountableA book, tome or other set of writings.
3. broadlycountableuncountableAnything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
4. abbreviationcolloquialcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of text message, a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.

   In the morning, you're vexed / He's on to the next / And you didn't even get no text

   2004, Amy Winehouse, Salaam Remi, “Fuck Me Pumps”, in Frank, performed by Amy Winehouse

5. countableuncountablecomputingData which can be interpreted as human-readable text.

   Antonyms: binary

6. countableuncountableA verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.

   Synonyms: topic, theme

7. countableuncountablemediaA style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.

   German text

   Synonyms: text hand

present singular third person texts · participle present texting · participle past texted · past texted

1. transitiveTo send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.

   Just text me when you get here.

   1 more example

   I'll text the address to you as soon as I find it.

   Synonyms: message, SMS

2. intransitiveTo send and receive text messages.

   Have you been texting all afternoon?

3. datedTo write in large characters, as in text hand.

   I wish / (Next to my part of Heav'n) that she would spend / The last part of her life so here, that all / Indifferent judges might condemn me for / A most malicious slanderer, nay, text it / Upon my forehead

   1607–21, Phillip Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret, act 2, scene 1

   1 more example

   The basic plan is simple. For the first two phrases the texted line is above the untexted; for the next two, bring us to the midpoint cadence, the texted line is for the most part lower; and the in the second half the texted material starts lower, moves into the upper position and finally occupies the bottom range again.

   2009, Lain Fenlon, Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music (Music), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page p. 223