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Sexted vs Texted - What's the difference?

sexted | texted |

As verbs the difference between sexted and texted

is that sexted is (sext) while texted is (text).

sexted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (sext)

    • sext

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The fourth of the canonical hours; usually held at noon.

    • Etymology 2

    , which is more common.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sexual text message.
  • Any electronic message with sexual context.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To send a sext message.
  • To send (someone) a (sext message).
  • * {{quote-news
    • , date = 2010-04-16 , title = Sex suspended, celibacy supreme , first = Victoria , last = Gehman , work = Albany Student Press , url = http://www.albanystudentpress.org/sex-suspended-celibacy-supreme-1.1346703 , passage = The next day, Greg sexted me a few pictures of his package. When I opened the file the image was unlike anything I'd ever seen. "No wonder he's a sex addict!" I thought. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , date = 2011-11-14 , title = The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass , first = Bill , last = Maher , authorlink = Bill Maher , publisher = Penguin , isbn = 9781101552155 , passage = This week, we found out Vikings quarterback Brett Favre allegedly tried to get with a young woman by sending her Myspace messages, voicemails, and notes through a friend, and when none of that worked, it was third and long—though not as long as most of us would have imagined—he decided to sext her pictures of Little Brett to close the deal. }}
    Synonyms
    * sex-text

    Derived terms

    * (l)
    Usage notes
    * Particularly used as (sexting). ----

    texted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (text)

    • Anagrams

    *

    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

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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.
  • *
  • * {{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)