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Intext vs Texta - What's the difference?

intext | texta |

As nouns the difference between intext and texta

is that intext is (archaic) the text of a book while texta is (australia) a felt-tip pen, often coloured and usually wide-tipped for use by children.

intext

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) The text of a book.
  • (Herrick)
  • A text that makes up part of a larger text.
  • * 1990 , Stephen Hutchings, A semiotic analysis of the short stories of Leonid Andreev, 1900-1909 (page 89)
  • Andreev's intexts are each, in some sense, miniatures of the larger text that includes them.
    (Webster 1913)

    texta

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia) A felt-tip pen, often coloured and usually wide-tipped for use by children.
  • * 2003 , Mark Fox, Discovering Australian Animals , page 34,
  • Here is what a wombat burrow may look like. Using coloured pencils or textas , colour in the wombat burrows.
  • * 2008 , Ghristopher Cyrill, The Ganges and Its Tributaries'', Alice Pung (editor), ''Growing Up Asian in Australia , page 40,
  • He pencilled a map of India onto a piece of chipboard, and then went over the outline with a texta'. He went over the ' texta outline with a razorblade and then, with a knife, he cut away the excess chipboard.
  • * 2009 , Colin McLaren, Infiltration: The True Story of the Man Who Cracked the Mafia , Melbourne University Press, page 53,
  • Minute weighing scales sat on top of desks, glass syringe kits lay idle, mug shots were pinned here and there, some with a dart in the forehead, or ?caught? written in texta .

    See also

    * The Original Texta (Jasco website) English genericized trademarks ----