Texta vs. Text

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Difference Between Texta and Text

Textanoun

(Australia) A felt-tip pen, often coloured and usually wide-tipped for use by children.

Textnoun

A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.

Textnoun

A book, tome or other set of writings.

Textnoun

(colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones; an SMS text message.

Textnoun

(computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text (often contrasted with binary data).

Textnoun

A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.

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Textnoun

Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.; topic; theme.

Textnoun

A style of writing in large characters; text-hand; also, a kind of type used in printing.

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Textverb

(transitive) To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.

Just text me when you get here.I'll text the address to you as soon as I find it.

Textverb

(intransitive) To send and receive text messages.

Have you been texting all afternoon?

Textverb

To write in large characters, as in text hand.

Textnoun

the words of something written;

there were more than a thousand words of textthey handed out the printed text of the mayor's speechhe wants to reconstruct the original text
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Textnoun

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

Textnoun

a book prepared for use in schools or colleges;

his economics textbook is in its tenth editionthe professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy

Textnoun

the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.);

pictures made the text easier to understand