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CEFRA1

/tɛkst/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Written words used to communicate information or ideas.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A book, tome or other set of writings.

Examples

  • I tend to look at the pictures before reading the text.

  • There's not so much text in this book.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3
Synonyms
4

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Ellipsis of text message, a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.

  2. A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.

  3. Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.

More examples

In context

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

  • Just text me when you get here.

  • A computer that can process text

Synonyms

Antonyms

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

She typed a quick blank message to her friend on her smartphone.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English text, from Old French texte (“text”), from Medieval Latin textus (“the Scriptures, text, treatise”), from Latin textus (“style or texture of a work”), perfect passive participle of texō (“to weave”). Cognate to English texture.