text - definition and translation

text based text block text block composition text buffer text chart text database text dialog text digitizer text display text editing text editing terminal text edition text editor text encoding initiative text entry text file text fitting text generator text input terminal text matter text message text messaging text mining text mode text processing text processing utility text processor text reckoning and compiling text retrieval system

Большой англо-русский словарь:

text
1. имя существительное
1) текст
2) оригинал, подлинник; подлинный текст
3) руководство, учебник
      Синоним(ы):
      textbook
4) тема (речи, проповеди, дискуссии и т. п.)
      Например: I'll try to stick to my text. — Я попытаюсь не отклоняться от темы.
      Синоним(ы):
      subject, topic
5) полиграфическое и издательское дело текст (шрифт)
6) религия и религиозные культы цитата из Библии
7) слова, текст (обычно какого-либо стихотворения, положенные на музыку)
2. глагол
отправлять текстовое сообщение, СМС-сообщение
      Например: Cell phone users over 60 are the least likely to text - only 7 percent of them do. — Владельцы сотовых телефонов старше 60 лет крайне редко отправляют текстовые сообщения - среди них таких только семь процентов.

Англо-русский словарь компьютерных терминов:

text
1.
текст
(от лат. textum - ткань, связь слов) последовательность слов какого либо языка
Смотри также: ASCII, text editor, text file, text wrap
2.
текстовый
Смотри также: alphanumeric

Англо-русский политехнический словарь:

text
1) текст
2) текстовой оригинал
3) текст (название шрифта)
- ciphered text
- cipher text
- clear text
- justified text
- master text
- message text
- nonreproducible text
- original text
- program text
- straight text
- unjustified text

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary:

text
noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French tiste, texte, from Medieval Latin textus, from Latin, texture, context, from texere to weave — more at technical
Date: 14th century
1.
a.
(1) the original words and form of a written or printed work
(2) an edited or emended copy of an original work
b. a work containing such text
2.
a. the main body of printed or written matter on a page
b. the principal part of a book exclusive of front and back matter
c. the printed score of a musical composition
3.
a.
(1) a verse or passage of Scripture chosen especially for the subject of a sermon or for authoritative support (as for a doctrine)
(2) a passage from an authoritative source providing an introduction or basis (as for a speech)
b. a source of information or authority
4. theme, topic
5.
a. the words of something (as a poem) set to music
b. matter chiefly in the form of words that is treated as data for processing by computerized equipment
   Example: a text-editing typewriter
6. a type suitable for printing running text
7. textbook
8.
a. something (as a story or movie) considered as an object to be examined, explicated, or deconstructed
b. something likened to a text
   Example: the surfaces of daily life are texts to be explicated — Michiko Kakutani
9. frame of reference 2
   Example: updated to fit the women's lib text for consciousness raising — Judith Crist

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing:

text

1. Executable code, especially a "pure code" portion shared
between multiple instances of a program running in a
multitasking operating system.

Compare English.

2. Textual material in the mainstream sense; data in ordinary
ASCII or EBCDIC representation (see flat ASCII). "Those
are text files; you can review them using the editor."

These two contradictory senses confuse hackers too.

[Jargon File]

(1995-03-16)