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How to pronounce text in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms school text, schoolbook, text edition, textbook
Type of book
Has types reader, primer, crammer, introduction


his economics textbook is in its tenth edition.
the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy.
Type Words
Synonyms textual matter
Type of matter
Has types installment, instalment, draft copy, missive, draft, copy, cookie, column, stanza, words, written matter, language, letter, line, lipogram, lyric, electronic text
Derivation textual


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.
Type Words
Type of passage


the preacher chose a text from Psalms to introduce his sermon.
Type Words
Type of matter
Derivation textual


pictures made the text easier to understand.

Examples of text

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A 20-year-old lifeguard who said Tameris would text her and ask her to hang out.
From the news-journalonline.com
Doctors usually respond shortly thereafter with a text, an e-mail or phone call.
From the freep.com
Beatty resigned last week over a scandal involving text messages with the mayor.
From the freep.com
The university's text messaging system reaches more than 43,000 people, he said.
From the dailyherald.com
If you still don't take it, it can initiate a phone call or text message to you.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Twenty-three percent of women say they text from behind the wheel as frequently.
From the cnn.com
Here is the full text of his resignation letter to Prime Minister David Cameron.
From the telegraph.co.uk
I composed numerous tweets, text messages, and email replies this week using it.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Liam Brady, my childhood hero, sent me a text, Sir Alex Ferguson sent me a text.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • 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"
  • 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"
  • Textbook: a book prepared for use in schools or colleges; "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy"
  • The main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.); "pictures made the text easier to understand"
  • A text file (sometimes spelled "textfile": an old alternate name is "flatfile") is a kind of computer file that is structured as a sequence of lines. A text file exists within a computer file system. ...
  • Text may refer to:
  • TxT is a 2006 Filipino horror film directed by Michael Tuviera and starring Angel Locsin, Dennis Trillo, Oyo Boy Sotto, Julia Clarete, Dante Rivero and Eugene Domingo.
  • Text & Talk is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal published by Mouton de Gruyter. It provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for publication of research in "language, discourse, and communication studies".
  • A text, within literary theory, is a coherent set of symbols that transmits some kind of informative message. Other ideas related to this have specific meanings within literary theory.