Word Finder - text

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

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A book, tome or other set of writings.

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A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.

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• text message

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Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.

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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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(by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.

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• theme
• topic

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

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German text

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• text hand

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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.

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I'll text the address to you as soon as I find it.

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• SMS
• message

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To send and receive text messages.

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Have you been texting all afternoon?

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To write in large characters, as in text hand.

I'll text you my address.

He pulled out his phone to text Damian.

Jule's text message brought him back to the unpleasant task ahead of him.

She shook her head and sat down, sending a text to Darian.

He typed a quick text then shut off the phone.

This morning she asked me the meaning of "carpenter," and the question furnished the text for the day's lesson.

His phone had a text waiting.

The text message was from Jule.

Another text popped up, worsening his mood.

Text me if you need anything else.

An unread text message blinked on the screen. 4got 2 tell you.

They won't let me in, Ashley's text was accompanied by half a dozen frowny faces.

Sofia pulled over to the side of the road to await the text and load the address into the car's GPS.

Xander received a text a minute later.

A text made her phone ding as she finished eating.

Xander reached for his phone, satisfied to see a text from Jule.

Feel free to call, text or visit.

She pulled it free to see a text from Dusty.

They'll be freaked out, but I'll text them and tell them to go with you.

Careful study of the text will not support this view.

Nitzsch, however, held that this was a copyist's gloss, harmonizing with the received Boetius legend, which had been transferred to the text, and did not consider that it outweighed the opposing internal evidence from De Cons.

He particularly congratulated himself on having discovered the " philosophical argument " against transubstantiation, " that the text of Scripture which seems to inculcate the real presence is attested only by a single sense - our sight, while the real presence itself is disproved by three of our senses - the sight, the touch, and the taste."

This only begins with what Paulin Paris terms the Agravain section, all the part previous to Guenevere's rescue from Meleagant having been lost; but the text is an excellent one, agreeing closely with the Lenoire edition of 1533.

A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains was followed by The Temminck subsequently reproduced, with many additions, the text of this volume in his Histoire naturelle des pigeons et des gallinacees, published at Amsterdam in 1813-1815, in 3 vols.

In the last-mentioned work he seeks to prove that the St Petersburg Codex, for so many years accepted as the genuine text of the Babylonian school, is in reality a Palestinian text carefully altered so as to render it conformable to the Babylonian recension.

As Hebrew became less familiar to the people, a system of translating the text of the Law into the Aramaic vernacular verse by verse, was adopted in the synagogue.

Both Talmuds are arranged according to the six orders of the Mishnah, but the discussion of the Mishnic text often wanders off into widely different topics.

Its object was to fix the biblical text unalterably.

It is generally divided into the Great and the Small Masorah, forming together an apparatus criticus which grew up gradually in the course of centuries and now accompanies the text in most MSS.

Some system of the kind was necessary to guard against corruptions of copyists, while the care bestowed upon it no doubt reacted so as to enhance the sanctity ascribed to the text.

Their long lists of the occurrences of words and forms fixed with accuracy the present (Masoretic) text, which they had produced, and were invaluable to subsequent lexicographers, while their system of vowel-points and accents not only gives us the pronunciation and manner of reading traditional about the 7th century A.D., but frequently serves also the purpose of an explanatory commentary.

The Hebrew text was edited with a Latin translation by Breithaupt (Gotha, 1707).

The play is, however, founded on Bacon's Life, of which the text is used by Ford with admirable discretion, and on Thomas Gainsford's True and Wonderful History of Perkin Warbeck (1618).

Mitchell reprinted the 1567 volume (expurgated) for the Scottish Text Society.

The text of the Complaynt was first edited by Leyden in 1801.

The true character of Urim (as expressing " aye ") and Thummim (as expressing " nay ") is shown by the reconstructed text of 1 Sam.

The text of the notice of the third Cadmus of Miletus in Suidas is unsatisfactory; and it is uncertain whether he is to be explained in the same way, or whether he was an historical personage, of whom all further record is lost.

The text was published in 20 vols.

In these illustrations, which gave an impluse to the production of "enblems" and were copied in the English version, there appears a humour quite absent from the text.

With regard to the second of the above complaints, surprise will probably be felt that it was not extended to portions of the text as well as to the notes.

Before Lightfoot's time commentaries, especially on the epistles, had not infrequently consisted either of short homilies on particular portions of the text, or of endeavours to enforce foregone conclusions, or of attempts to decide with infinite industry and ingenuity between the interpretations of former commentators.

That the substance of the Physiologus was borrowed from commentaries on Scripture 4 is confirmed by many of the sections opening with a text, followed up by some such formula as "but the Physiologus says."

When zoological records failed, Egypto-Hellenic ingenuity was never at a loss for a fanciful invention distilled from the text itself, but which to succeeding copyists appeared as part of the teaching of the original Physiologus.

So little was the collection considered as a literary work with a definite text that every one assumed a right to abridge or enlarge, to insert ideas of his own, or fresh scriptural quotations; nor were the scribes and translators by any means scrupulous about the names of natural objects, and even the passages from Holy Writ.

The Greek text of the Physiologus exists only in late MSS., and has to be corrected from the translations.

From the text which Philo uses, it is probable that the translation had been transmitted in writing; and his legend probably fixes the date of the commencement of the undertaking for the reign of Ptolemy Lagus.

This would easily allow clarification of what is 100-years-ago vague without really tampering with the text.

It even appears from a study of the Greek text that some copies of the books of Samuel incorporated narratives which other copies did not acknowledge.

According to the Hebrew text of I Sam.

The Gibeonites demanded the latter, and five sons of Merab (the text by a mistake reads Michal) and two sons of Saul's concubine were sacrificed.