text (
http://definr.com/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" [syn:
textual matter]
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"
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"
[syn:
textbook,
text edition,
schoolbook, {school
text}] [ant:
trade book]
4: the main body of a written work (as distinct from
illustrations or footnotes etc.); "pictures made the text
easier to understand"