text

noun

• 1a book or other written or printed work, regarded in terms of its content rather than its physical form:a text that explores pain and grief
• a piece of written or printed material regarded as conveying the authentic or primary form of a particular work:in some passages it is difficult to establish the original text the text of the lecture was available to guests
• written or printed words, typically forming a connected piece of work:stylistic features of journalistic text
• Computing data in the form of words or alphabetic characters.

• 2 [in singular] the main body of a book or other piece of writing, as distinct from other material such as notes, appendices, and illustrations:the pictures are clear and relate well to the text
• a script or libretto.

• 3a written work chosen or assigned as a subject of study:the book is intended as a secondary text for religion courses
• a textbook.
• a passage from the Bible or other religious work, especially when used as the subject of a sermon.
• a subject or theme for a discussion or exposition:he took as his text the fact that Australia is paradise

• 4a text message.

• 5 (also text-hand) fine, large handwriting, used especially for manuscripts.

verb

• send a text message to:I thought it was fantastic that he took the trouble to text me (as noun texting)stricter regulations against texting while driving