Meaning vs Text - What's the difference?
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The symbolic value of something.
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*:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
The significance of a thing.
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(lb) The objects or concept that a word or phrase denotes, or that which a sentence says.
(lb) Intention.
*(rfdate) (Sir Walter Raleigh):
*:It was their meaning to take what they needed by stronghand.
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Expressing some intention or significance; meaningful.
*1839 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘William Wilson’:
*:I might, to-day, have been a better, and thus a happier man, had I less frequently rejected the counsels embodied in those meaning whispers which I then but too cordially hated and too bitterly despised.
A consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
A book, tome or other set of writings.
(colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones; an SMS text message.
(computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text (often contrasted with binary data ).
A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.; topic; theme.
A style of writing in large characters; text-hand; also, a kind of type used in printing.
To send a text message to; to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.
To send (a message) to someone by SMS.
To send and receive text messages.
To write in large characters, as in text hand.
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Meaning is a related term of text.
As nouns the difference between meaning and text
is that meaning is the symbolic value of something while text is .As a verb meaning
is .As an adjective meaning
is having a (specified) intention.meaning
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(wikipedia meaning)Etymology 1
From (etyl) mening, menyng, equivalent to .Noun
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* propositionDerived terms
* antimeaning * meaning of life * meaningful * meaningless * meaninglessly * meaninglessnessEtymology 2
From .Verb
(head)Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
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*Verb
- Just text me when you get here.
- I'll text the address to you as soon as I find it.
- Have you been texting all afternoon?
citation, genre=Music , publisher=Cambridge University Press , isbn=9780521746540 , page= p. 223 , passage=The basic plan is simple. For the first two phrases the texted' line is above the '''untexted'''; for the next two, bring us to the midpoint cadence, the '''texted''' line is for the most part lower; and the in the second half the ' texted material starts lower, moves into the upper position and finally occupies the bottom range again. }}