Text

Text may refer to:

  • the representation of written language
  • Text (literary theory), a concept in literary theory
  • Another name for a literary work
  • A particular Bible passage, sometimes a single verse or verse fragment
  • Textbook, a standardized instructional book
  • in electronic communication and computing
    • Plain text (unformatted text)
    • Text file, a type of computer files
    • Text display, an electronic alphanumeric display device
    • Text mode display
    • Text messaging, the sending of short messages by mobile phone
    • Text segment, another name for the code segment of a binary executable computer file
  • in arts and entertainment
    • Text (song), a 2010 song by Mann
    • TEXT, a Swedish band formed by 3/4 ex-Refused Members
    • TxT (film), a 2006 Filipino horror film.

Famous quotes containing the word text:

    “I am so glad you have been able to preserve the text in all of its impurity.”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

    “There’s a great text in Galatians,
    Once you trip on it, entails
    Twenty-nine distinct damnations,
    One sure, if another fails:”
    —Robert Browning (1812–1889)

    “If ever I should condescend to prose,
    I’ll write poetical commandments, which
    Shall supersede beyond all doubt all those
    That went before; in these I shall enrich
    My text with many things that no one knows,
    And carry precept to the highest pitch:
    I’ll call the work ‘Longinus o’er a Bottle,
    Or, Every Poet his own Aristotle.’”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)