📒 any form of written material
- a computer that can process text
- printed text
- Highlight the area of text on screen and press the ‘delete’ key.
📒 a piece of writing that you have to answer questions about in an exam or a lesson
- Read the text carefully and then answer the questions.
- We discussed the use of metaphor in the text.
- a poetic text about growing up in rural England
📒 a written message that you send using a mobile phone
- She sent me a text to say she would be late.
📒 the main printed part of a book or magazine, not the notes, pictures, etc.
- My job is to lay out the text and graphics on the page.
- She wrote the text for a book of photographs.
- Hand symbols in the main body of the text cross-refer the reader to the appendices.
📒 the written form of a speech, a play, an article, etc.
- The newspaper had printed the full text of the president's speech.
- Can you act out this scene without referring to the text?
- The filmed version of Henry V stays close to the original text.
📒 a book, play, etc., especially one that is being studied
- a literary text
- sacred/religious/ancient texts
- Her books appear on lists of recommended texts in universities.
📒 a book that teaches a particular subject and that is used especially in schools and colleges
📒 a sentence or short passage from the Bible that is read out and discussed by somebody, especially during a religious service