text

n 1: the words of something written; "there were more than a

thousand words of text"; "they handed out the printed

text of the mayor's speech"; "he wants to reconstruct

the original text" [syn: {textual matter}]

2: a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a

sermon; "the preacher chose a text from Psalms to

introduce his sermon"

3: a book prepared for use in schools or colleges; "his

economics textbook is in its tenth edition" [syn: {textbook},

{text edition}, {schoolbook}, {school text}] [ant: {trade

book}]

4: the main body of a written work (as distinct from

illustrations or footnotes etc.); "pictures made the text

easier to understand"

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)