textとは

発音

• enPR: tĕkst, IPA^(key): /tɛkst/
• 韻: -ɛkst
• ハイフネーション: text

名詞

text (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 texts)

1. A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
2. A book, tome or other set of writings.
3. (colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones; an SMS text message.
4. (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text (often contrasted with binary data).
5. A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
6. Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.; topic; theme.
7. A style of writing in large characters; text-hand; also, a kind of type used in printing.

   German text

下位語

派生語

関連する語

Further reading

• Text in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

動詞

text (third-person singular simple present texts, present participle texting, simple past and past participle texted or (一般的ではない用法) text)

1. (transitive) 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.

   Just text me when you get here.

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

2. (intransitive) To send and receive text messages.

   Have you been texting all afternoon?

3. To write in large characters, as in text hand.
   • 1607–21, Phillip Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret, Act 2, Scene 1:

     I wish / (Next to my part of Heav'n) that she would spend / The last part of her life so here, that all / Indifferent judges might condemn me for / A most malicious slanderer, nay, text it / Upon my forehead

   • 2009, Lain Fenlon, Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music‎^[1] (Music), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page p. 223:

     The basic plan is simple. For the first two phrases the texted line is above the untexted; for the next two, bring us to the midpoint cadence, the texted line is for the most part lower; and the in the second half the texted material starts lower, moves into the upper position and finally occupies the bottom range again.

同意語

• (to send a text message to): message, SMS (英国用法)