Text - Definition
text
n 1: 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" [syn: text, textual matter]
2: 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: 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" [syn:
textbook, text, text edition, schoolbook, school
text] [ant: trade book, trade edition]
4: the main body of a written work (as distinct from
illustrations or footnotes etc.); "pictures made the text
easier to understand"