text : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a text file that contains only ASCII characters without special formatting
  

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• noun text that is in a form that computer can store or display on a computer screen
  

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• (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words, ✍ This line is German Text.

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• noun electronic text that is stored and used in the form of a digital image
  

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• noun electronic text that is stored as strings of characters and that can be displayed in a variety of formats
  

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Mar"-text` noun

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1. A blundering preacher.

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• a passage of Scripture used to prove a doctrine.

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• noun writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity
  religious text; sacred writing; religious writing.
  

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• noun writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity
  religious text; sacred writing; religious writing.
  

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• noun a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
  text; school text; textbook; schoolbook.
  
  • his economics textbook is in its tenth edition
  • the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy

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• . (Physiol.) See Word blindness, under Word.

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• noun a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
  text; school text; textbook; schoolbook.
  
  • his economics textbook is in its tenth edition
  • the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy

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• noun an editor who prepares text for publication
  copyreader; copy editor.
  
• noun (computer science) an application that can be used to create and view and edit text files
  

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• noun (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters
  document.
  

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• a large or capital letter. Obs.

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• a kind of metallic pen used in engrossing, or in writing text-hand.

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Text"-book` noun

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1. A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room for notes.
2. A volume, as of some classical author, on which a teacher lectures or comments; hence, any manual of instruction; a schoolbook.

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Text"-hand` noun

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1. A large hand in writing; -- so called because it was the practice to write the text of a book in a large hand and the notes in a smaller hand.

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• noun a computer program that looks for text that matches a given text
  
  • Google uses text-matching to find web pages containing a particular text

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• noun something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation
  transcription.
  

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