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Text vs. Context — What's the Difference?

Text vs. Context — What's the Difference?

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Text

A book or other written or printed work, regarded in terms of its content rather than its physical form
A text which explores pain and grief

Context

The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning.

Text

The main body of a book or other piece of writing, as distinct from other material such as notes, appendices, and illustrations
The pictures are clear and relate well to the text

Context

The circumstances in which an event occurs; a setting.

Text

A written work chosen or set as a subject of study
Too much concentration on set texts can turn pupils against reading
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Context

The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
In what context did your attack on him happen? - We had a pretty tense relationship at the time, and when he insulted me I snapped.

Text

A text message
Just give us a call or send us a text

Context

(linguistics) The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
Without any context, I can't tell you if the "dish" refers to the food, or the thing you eat it on.

Text

Fine, large handwriting, used especially for manuscripts.

Context

(archaeology) The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.

Text

Send (someone) a text message
If she was going to go she would have texted us

Context

(mycology) The trama or flesh of a mushroom.

Text

The original words of something written or printed, as opposed to a paraphrase, translation, revision, or condensation.

Context

(logic) For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.

Text

The words of a speech appearing in print.

Context

(obsolete) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.

Text

Words, as of a libretto, that are set to music in a composition.

Context

(obsolete) Knit or woven together; close; firm.

Text

Words treated as data by a computer.

Context

Knit or woven together; close; firm.
The coats, without, are context and callous.

Text

A text message.

Context

The part or parts of something written or printed, as of Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning.
According to all the light that the contexts afford.

Text

The body of a printed work as distinct from headings and illustrative matter on a page or from front and back matter in a book.

Context

To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
The whole world's frame, which is contexted only by commerce and contracts.

Text

One of the editions or forms of a written work
After examining all three manuscripts, he published a new text of the poem.

Context

Discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation

Text

Something, such as a literary work or other cultural product, regarded as an object of critical analysis.

Context

The set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event;
The historical context

Text

A passage from the Scriptures or another authoritative source chosen for the subject of a discourse or cited for support in argument.

Text

A passage from a written work used as the starting point of a discussion.

Text

A subject; a topic.

Text

A textbook.

Text

To send a text message to
She texted me when she arrived at the airport.

Text

To communicate by text message
He texted that he would be late.

Text

To key or send text messages
She was texting in class and missed what was said.

Text

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

Text

A book, tome or other set of writings.

Text

(colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.

Text

(computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
Plain text

Text

A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.

Text

(by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.

Text

(printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
German text

Text

(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.

Text

(intransitive) To send and receive text messages.
Have you been texting all afternoon?

Text

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

Text

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.

Text

The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence.

Text

A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
How oft, when Paul has served us with a text,Has Epictetus, Plato, Tully, preached!

Text

Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme.

Text

A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text.

Text

That part of a document (printed or electronic) comprising the words, especially the main body of expository words, in contrast to the illustrations, pictures, charts, tables, or other formatted material which contain graphic elements as a major component.

Text

Any communication composed of words.

Text

A textbook.

Text

To write in large characters, as in text hand.

Text

The words of something written;
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

Text

A passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon;
The preacher chose a text from Psalms to introduce his sermon

Text

A book prepared for use in schools or colleges;
His economics textbook is in its tenth edition
The professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy

Text

The main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.);
Pictures made the text easier to understand

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