text
/tɛkst/ noun A2- A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
- A book, tome or other set of writings.
- Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
- Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
- A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
- A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing. · German text
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It might be made a text-book for detectives to teach them what to avoid.”
In the phone example, the routine is scrolling through social media or reading text messages.
The convenience of digital text is undeniable, and nobody expects modern society to abandon the immense, transformative advantages of advanced computing.
When translators sit down with a new text, they confront the reality that languages are never just different labels for identical objects.
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