Hypertext Webster Gateway: "text"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Text \Text\, v. t.
To write in large characters, as in text hand. [Obs.] --Beau.
& Fl.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Text \Text\ (t[e^]kst), n. [F. texte, L. textus, texture,
structure, context, fr. texere, textum, to weave, construct,
compose; cf. Gr. te`ktwn carpenter, Skr. taksh to cut, carve,
make. Cf. {Context}, {Mantle}, n., {Pretext}, {Tissue},
{Toil} a snare.]
1. A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary
is written; the original words of an author, in
distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or commentary.
--Chaucer.
2. (O. Eng. Law) The four Gospels, by way of distinction or
eminence. [R.]
3. A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as
the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
How oft, when Paul has served us with a text, Has
Epictetus, Plato, Tully, preached! --Cowper.
4. Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument,
literary composition, or the like; topic; theme.
5. A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a
kind of type used in printing; as, German text.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
text
n 1: the words of something written; "there were more than a
thousand words of text"; "they handed out the printed
text of the mayor's speech"; "he wants to reconstruct
the original text" [syn: {textual matter}]
2: a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a
sermon; "the preacher chose a text from Psalms to
introduce his sermon"
3: a book prepared for use in schools or colleges; "his
economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the
professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy"
[syn: {textbook}, {text edition}, {schoolbook}, {school
text}] [ant: {trade book}]
4: the main body of a written work (as distinct from
illustrations or footnotes etc.); "pictures made the text
easier to understand"
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