text

  1. Noun.  A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
  2. Noun.  A book, tome or other set of writings.
  3. Noun.  (colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones; an SMS text message.
  4. Noun.  (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text (''often contrasted with binary data'').
  5. Verb.  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.
  6. Verb.  (intransitive) To send and receive text messages.
  7. Verb.  (obsolete) To write in large characters, as in text hand.

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