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# text

«text» in Mova's school dictionary: **written words, like the words in a book or on a screen** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a text, texts; text, uncountable); verb (text, texts, texted, texting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Text is written words, like the words in a book or on a screen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/text/#m1)

2) A text is a piece of writing, like a story, poem, article or set of instructions you read in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/text/#m2)

3) A text (text message) is a short written message sent from one phone to another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/text/#m3)

4) To text someone means to send them a text message. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/text/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons, «text» means any piece of writing you study: fiction and non-fiction texts, text types (instructions, reports, letters), «find evidence in the text». In maths, a «text» problem is a word problem. Online safety: only text people you know in real life; do not share personal information or photos; tell an adult if a text upsets you. Phrases: «in the text», «text message», «send a text», «text type», «textbook».

### examples

- Read the text and answer the questions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/text/#x1)
- Underline the adjectives in the text. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/text/#x2)
- Mum sent me a text to say she was running late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/text/#x3)
- Can you text me when you get home? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/text/#x4)
- The text on the screen was too small to read. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/text/#x5)
- Instructions are a non-fiction text type. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/text/#x6)
- Find evidence in the text to support your answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/text/#x7)
- Never reply to texts from strangers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/text/#x8)
- My sister texted her friend all evening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/text/#x9)
- There are a few Greek words in this text. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/text/#x10)

### note

Past: «texted» (said «tex-tid»). Uncountable for words in general («a lot of text»), countable for one piece of writing or message («two texts»). Words: «textbook» (a school book), «texting». Do not confuse with «context» (the words and situation around something).

### In the corpora

- [A text saying a parcel is held and asking for a small payment is a common scam to steal bank details.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/18/)
- [A language model learned by predicting missing or next words in enormous amounts of text.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/7/)
- [People designed AI, collected its text, built its computers and trained it, so people are responsible for it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/17/)
- [Bots tend to repeat the most common jokes, because those appeared most often in their training text.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/6/)
- [Different bots learned from different text, so they can give different answers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «text» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/text/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.