Definition of e-text in English English dictionary
- An electronic or digital version of a text
- plain text
- Unencrypted text, text that is readable
Using the sophisticated code was useless since the spy merely stole the plain text from the waste basket.
- plain text
- Data which consists only of human-readable text, as opposed to machine-readable binary data or formatting markup
- plain text
- Consisting only of plain text
- predictive text
- A function on certain text messaging software that attempts to predict which word is being typed as the user types it, thus allowing the user to type faster
- rich text
- Text that has been enhanced with formatting, multimedia, etc., such as Microsoft's Rich Text Format or the enriched text format used in electronic mail
- running text
- The body of text, as distinct from headings, footnotes, diagrams and other added material
- source text
- The original text from which a translation is done into another language, often abbreviated as ST
tudents in their first year believe that source text and target text should be identical in content, that the TT should be a reproduction of the ST in another language, and that the TT should read well and be understandable.
- target text
- The finished product of a translated text, often abbreviated as TT
tudents in their first year believe that source text and target text should be identical in content, that the TT should be a reproduction of the ST in another language, and that the TT should read well and be understandable.
- text
- A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones; an SMS text message
- text
- 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.
- text
- Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text (often contrasted with binary data)
- text
- A book, tome or other set of writings
- text
- To be occupied for a duration with the act of sending and receiving text messages
Have you been texting all afternoon?.
- text
- A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences
- text adventure
- A computer game in which the player is given a textual description of the environment and uses a command line to interact with it
- text adventures
- plural form of text adventure
- text box
- a rectangular widget that accepts textual input on an interactive electronic display
- text boxes
- plural form of text box
- text editor
- A program which allows a user to edit the contents of a text file, usually in an interactive way with immediate visual feedback. Compare word processor
- text editors
- plural form of text editor
- text file
- A simple data file in a character encoding that allows it to be read in a simple editor: usually, seven-bit, as opposed to containing raw binary data
- text file
- A simple data file containing only plain, human-readable text, distinct from documents with embedded formatting
- text files
- plural form of text file
- text link
- An element of text on a web page, which can be used to access other web pages
- text message
- A brief electronic message sent between mobile phones, containing text composed by the sender, usually input via a lettering system on a cell phone's numeric keypad, the content of which is often abbreviated like shorthand by leaving out vowels or using phonetic spellings
- text message
- To engage in the activity of sending and receiving text messages
She's been text messaging all afternoon.
- text message
- To send as a text message
Just text message me the information.
- text message
- To transmit a text message to
I told him to text message you when he's finished.
- text messages
- plural form of text message
I send a lot of text messages.
- text messages
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of text message
He text messages me a lot.
- text messaging
- Present participle of text message
- text messaging
- Sending and receiving written messages on mobile phones, or the technical system which allows this
- text retrieval
- Document retrieval
- timed text
- A method of synchronizing audio, especially in SMIL or SVG
- wall of text
- A large and intimidating piece of writing, particularly one with few or no paragraph breaks
- text
- {n} a sentence, protion, part, original writing
- text mining
- A technique of locating and deriving high quality information from text