text

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
2. (countable, uncountable)A book, tome or other set of writings.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of text message, a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.

   “In the morning, you're vexed / He's on to the next / And you didn't even get no text”

4. (countable, uncountable)Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
5. (countable, uncountable)A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
6. (broadly, countable, uncountable)Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
7. (countable, uncountable)A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.

   “German text”

verb

1. (transitive)To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.

   “Just text me when you get here.”

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

2. (intransitive)To send and receive text messages.

   “Have you been texting all afternoon?”

3. (dated)To write in large characters, as in text hand.

   “I wish / (Next to my part of Heav'n) that she would spend / The last part of her life so here, that all / Indifferent judges might condemn me for / A most malicious slanderer, nay, text it / Upon my forehead”

   “The basic plan is simple. For the first two phrases the texted line is above the untexted; for the next two, bring us to the midpoint cadence, the texted line is for the most part lower; and the in the second half the texted material starts lower, moves into the upper position and finally occupies the bottom range again.”