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Detext vs Etext - What's the difference?

detext | etext |

As a verb detext

is (rare) to extract or remove from a text.

As a noun etext is

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detext

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (rare) To extract or remove from a text
  • * {{quote-book, 1988, , editor=Peter Masson, Indiana 11, page=14 citation
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    Usage notes

    * This word is first found in print in English in Henry Cockeram's 1623 English Dictionary , with the meaning "unwoven". This is not known to have ever occurred in use, and appears to be unrelated to the modern term.

    See also

    * detect

    Anagrams

    *

    etext

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)