text

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

texts

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

text

past (v2)

texted

past participle (v3)

texted

present participle

texting

3rd person singular

texts

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.

2. 2.A book, tome or other set of writings.

3. 3.Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.

4. 4.Ellipsis of text message, a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.(colloquial)

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.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. 2.To send and receive text messages.

   • Have you been texting all afternoon?

Overall

Common· #1109

By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Rare

General reading & writing

Common

Academic

Common

Literature

Rare

Word family

• textbook