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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"

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textual_matter

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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"

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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"

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school_text schoolbook text_edition textbook

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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"

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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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