Noun | 1. | text - 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" Synonyms: textual matter |
2. | text - 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. | text - 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" | |
4. | text - the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.); "pictures made the text easier to understand" |
1. | text - Executable code, especially a "pure code" portion shared
between multiple instances of a program running in a
multitasking operating system. Compare English. | ||
2. | text - Textual material in the mainstream sense; data in ordinary
ASCII or EBCDIC representation (see flat ASCII). "Those
are text files; you can review them using the editor." These two contradictory senses confuse hackers too. |