Scripts and Text

noun

• The words of something written.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: textual matter
• A passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon.
  • usage: "the preacher chose a text from Psalms to introduce his sermon"
• A book prepared for use in schools or colleges.
  • usage: "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy"
  • synonyms: textbook, text edition, schoolbook, school text
• The main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.. )
  • usage: "pictures made the text easier to understand"

• (n.) A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation or commentary.
• (n.) A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text.
• (n.) The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence.
• (n.) A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon or in proof of a doctrine.
• (v.t.) To write in large characters, as in text hand.
• (n.) Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition or the like; topic; theme.