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US
/ˈtɛkst/
]
[ UK /tˈɛkst/ ]
[ UK /tˈɛkst/ ]
NOUN
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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 -
the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)
pictures made the text easier to understand -
the words of something written
they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech
he wants to reconstruct the original text
there were more than a thousand words of 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
How To Use text In A Sentence
- If you unzip our sample document and load content.xml into a text editor, you should notice a few things.
- Again, one file change can put a little red nose next to all of your headers, turn the text red and even make them display in a silly typeface.
- ASCII is the standard language of Internet e-mail and newsgroup text, among other things.
- Venuti advocates that translators create a discursive heterogeneity by using non-dominant English forms to make the foreignness of the source texts felt and render the translations visible.
- This textbook provides a modern and accessible introduction to magnetohydrodynamics.
- Mostly, however, she seems to be held in some kind of incommunicado status until they need a sound bite, and then they throw the power switch, download the text and out she spits it, with all the emotion of an automaton. Condi a Waste of Time
- The field is still popularly associated more with tents than texts: stones, bones, and potsherds.
- Moreover, don't these choices facilitate a feminist reading of the text, deconstructing sentimentality to expose masculine failings and feminine rebellion?
- We've seen how things turned out for Scotland's national football manager; matters are organised no differently in the more modest context that is Scottish shinty.
- But what of the emails, text messages and other private communications between government officials which aren't published online -- will Twitter and Facebook help "democratize" that information as well? Is Social Media Helping or Hurting California Politics?
