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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
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- It is mainly accomplished by using text in the same color as the background color of the page.
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- ASCII is the standard language of Internet e-mail and newsgroup text, among other things.
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- 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.
