Definition of Text

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Definition of Text

Text

A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or commentary.

The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence.

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

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

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

To write in large characters, as in text hand.

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Text Quotations

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
James Madison

Music is the melody whose text is the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
Dean Koontz

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
Dan Quayle

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
Ernest Shackleton

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
Eldridge Cleaver

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
Umberto Eco

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?
Antonin Scalia

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
Wole Soyinka

Text Translations

text in Afrikaans is teks
text in Dutch is tekst
text in Finnish is teksti
text in French is paroles, texte
text in German is Text
text in Italian is testo
text in Portuguese is texto
text in Spanish is texto

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