text

Examples

• All

• This, the text of the cornerstone that they laid that day, reads as follows.

• Our text today is from Malachi, chapter four.

  High Noon (1952)

• This morning, our subject comes from the text found in Luke 15 and 8.

  I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009)

• And on the stone we have the words of the text that was sung.

• The following statement is the text of a letter from General Secretary Khrushchev to President Kennedy.

  Fiction book (2000)

• We have already removed the Book of Oa, our most sacred text.

  Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (2011)

• Prayed together, shared common texts become a part of the fabric of our being.

  Academic text (2013)

• The text on this tablet corroborates a passage in the Bible from the Book of Kings, just hitherto been regarded as pure legend.

  Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

• In evaluating the relationship between Moulsworth's poem and scriptural texts, two important concerns immediately emerge.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Our text today comes from the Gospel of Luke, which teaches us about love and forgiveness.

Synonyms

S

Scripture

vstext

118 7.0

The holy writings of the Christian religion, especially the Bible

is a single passage chosen for a sermon rather than the whole writings

Idioms

S

to stick to one's text

6.9

To follow prepared words when speaking without adding new ideas

Compounds

R

religious text

5 3.7

A book or writing that people treat as holy in a religion

S

sacred text

5 6.3

A book or writing that people respect and use in worship in a religion

T

text file

• Specialized

4 2.7

A computer file that has only plain text

T

text editor

• Specialized

4 2.9

A computer program for writing and changing plain text files

T

text box

• Specialized

3 3.2

An area on a screen or in a document where you can type and show words

W

written text

2 2.0

Words put on paper or saved in a file, not spoken

H

Hebrew text

1 7.0

Words written in Hebrew using its alphabet

E

electronic text

• Specialized

1 3.7

Text in a computer file that you can read on a screen

S

school text

1 2.5

A book used in class to help students learn a subject

A

ASCII text file

• Specialized

3.5

A file that has only plain letters, numbers, and symbols with no special formatting

M

machine-readable text

• Specialized

4.2

Text in a computer file that a program can read and use

M

machine-displayable text

• Specialized

7.5

Words and letters a computer saves so you can view and search them

T

text tennis

• Slang

7.4

A quick back-and-forth exchange of text messages between two people

T

text-matching

• Specialized

4.3

Searching for exact words or text that match a given pattern

T

text-matching

• Specialized

4.4

Checking whether two pieces of text have the same or similar meaning

S

smutty text

• Offensive

9.9

A short message with rude words about sex that some people find offensive

How Long

book

∞ 1.0

chapter

531 1.0

text

56 6.9

passage

149 2.8

verse

• Literature

215 3.4

Surface Forms

Etymology