Text vs Speech - What's the difference?
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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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(label) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate.
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(label) A session of speaking; a long oral message given publicly usually by one person.
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A style of speaking.
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* Bible, (w) iii. 6
Talk; mention; rumour.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
As nouns the difference between text and speech
is that text is while speech is spoke (part of a wheel).text
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Noun
- German text
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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?
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Synonyms
* (to send a text message to) message, SMS (UK)speech
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Noun
(wikipedia speech)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech . In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
- The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches , was to drive some one particular point.
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- people of a strange speech
- The dukedid of me demand / What was the speech among the Londoners / Concerning the French journey.