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S vs Text - What's the difference?

s | text |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun text is

.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    text

    English

    Noun

  • 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.
    • German text

    Derived terms

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    Related terms

    (terms related to text) * context * pretext

    External links

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    Verb

  • 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.
    • Just text me when you get here.
  • To send (a message) to someone by SMS.
    • I'll text the address to you as soon as I find it.
  • To send and receive text messages.
    • Have you been texting all afternoon?
  • To write in large characters, as in text hand.
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  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2009 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Lain Fenlon , title=Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music , chapter= 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. }}

    Synonyms

    * (to send a text message to) message, SMS (UK)