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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"
    Synonyms :textual_matter 
    See Also: matter  publication  cookie  word_order  copy  draft  electronic_text  hard_copy  installment  book  chapter  foreword  paragraph  passage  letter  line  lipogram  language  stanza 
 
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"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: passage  bible 
 
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"
    Synonyms :school_text schoolbook text_edition textbook 
    See Also: book  trade_book  crammer  introduction  primer  reader 
 
4)the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.); "pictures made the text easier to understand"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: matter 
 

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

1. Executable code, especially a "pure code" portion shared between multiple instances of a program running in a multitasking operating system.

Compare English.

2. Textual material in the mainstream sense; data in ordinary ASCII or EBCDIC representation (see flat ASCII). "Those are text files; you can review them using the editor."

These two contradictory senses confuse hackers too.

[Jargon File]

(1995-03-16)








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