1. 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";
   - textual matter
    
2. The main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)
   "pictures made the text easier to understand"
    
3. A book prepared for use in schools or colleges
   "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy"; "his economics text edition is in its tenth edition";
   - textbook, text edition, schoolbook, school text
    
4. 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"
    
5. A short text message sent between mobile phones or other electronic devices
   "She sent me a text to confirm our dinner plans";
   - text message, SMS
    
6. (computing) data that can be interpreted as human-readable text
   "The program processes plain text files rather than binary data"

1. To send a message by SMS or similar text-based messaging service
   "He texted her to confirm their dinner plans"
    
2. Contact by sending a text message to a mobile phone or other electronic device
   "I'll text you the address later";
   - SMS

Derived forms: texting, texts, texted

Type of: book, matter, message, passage

Part of: Bible, Book, Christian Bible, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, publication, Scripture, Word, Word of God

Encyclopedia: Text, speech and dialogue