text

Related to text: Text to speech

group text

A conversation between multiple people that occurs via text message. How can I turn off the alerts for this annoying group text? My sisters and I chat in a group text all the time.
See also: group, text

urtext

The foundation, origin, or roots of something, especially an artistic work or cultural phenomenon; the original source or inspiration for many similar or related things that followed it. The term was originally applied to the earliest versions of scriptures, literary works, and musical compositions, but it is now used more broadly. I think "The Catcher in the Rye" can be seen as the urtext for the many novels about disillusioned teens that followed it. The urtext of the movement seems to be a speech he gave 10 years ago.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • group text
  • dictated but not read
  • YHBW
  • Cu
  • differ with (someone) about (something)
  • DYK
  • differ with (someone) on (something)
  • differ about
  • differ about (something)
  • differ on (something)
References in classic literature
"It is clear from the text that there were two [caves] not one, but some one has enclosed in brackets the two lines in which the second cave is mentioned, I presume because he found himself puzzled by having a second cave sprung upon him when up to this point he had only been told of one.
{139} The text is here apparently corrupt, and will not make sense as it stands.
"Why, it was those texts, too, father said, that made HIM think of the game--he began with ME on the crutches--but he said 'twas the rejoicing texts that started him on it."
The reading should include most of Gray's poems and 'The Deserted Village.' Questions for consideration are suggested in the text, but students should be able to state definitely just what are the things that make Gray's 'Elegy' a great poem and should form definite opinions as to the rank of 'The Bard' and 'The Progress of Poesy' among lyrics.
Subjects for discussion are suggested in the text. Especially may be considered his feeling for Nature, his power of description, and the question how far his faults as a poet nullify his merits.
Otherwise read from the essays named in the text or from Professor L.
Special attention may be given to any one, or more, of the statements or suggestions in the text, considering its application in the poems read, with citation of illustrative lines.
In general consider the application of the statements in the text; and in the case of Robert Browning consider emotional, dramatic, descriptive, and narrative power, poetic beauty, and adaptation of the verse-form to the substance.
Students might compare and contrast the poetry of these three men, either on the basis of points suggested in the text or otherwise.
Mr Allworthy answered to all this, and much more, which the captain had urged on this subject, "That, however guilty the parents might be, the children were certainly innocent: that as to the texts he had quoted, the former of them was a particular denunciation against the Jews, for the sin of idolatry, of relinquishing and hating their heavenly King; and the latter was parabolically spoken, and rather intended to denote the certain and necessary consequences of sin, than any express judgment against it.
The text of The Lord's Prayer is in Luke (11: 2-4): [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (translated by: [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII].
The text should be appropriate for the general goals and basic principles of the Ministry of National Education.
Text messages are popping up on students' cell phones, with emergency closings and weather alerts.
The instructor is faced with the challenge of 1) finding a text that meets the needs of both groups of students; and 2) structuring the class to maximize the advantage of the one group without jeopardizing the chances of success of the other group.
The text is divided into four parts, consisting of sixteen chapters and a glossary.