bject of a sermon or for authoritative support (as for a doctrine)(2): a passage from an authoritative source providing an introduction or basis (as for a speech)b: a source of information or authority4: THEME, TOPIC5a: the words of something (such as a poem) set to musicb: matter chiefly in the form of words or symbols that is treated as data for processing by computerized equipmenttext-editing software6: a type suitable for printing running text7: TEXTBOOK8a: something (such as a story or movie) considered as an object to be examined, explicated, or deconstructedb: something likened to a textthe surfaces of daily life are texts to be explicated— Michiko Kakutani9: FRAME OF REFERENCE sense 2updated to fit the women’s lib text for consciousness raising— Judith Crist10: TEXT MESSAGEsent a text with the details
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