EGAVE

text

Academic Word List, sublist 2.

About 89.74 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
  2. noun A book, tome or other set of writings.
  3. noun Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
  4. noun Ellipsis of text message, a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.
  5. noun Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
  6. noun A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
  7. noun A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
    German text
  8. verb To 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.

Similar words

schoolbook textbook school text text edition textual matter writing letter paragraph manuscript caption

Often followed by

of and is in to for box as that

Word family

texted texter texters texting texts textual

Save “text” to learn later