HOW TO PRONOUNCE
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/tɛkst/
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One vowel beat, then k-s-t.
The final x contributes k and s, followed by t. Say the ending slowly at first while keeping it attached to the same syllable as the vowel.
1 syllable
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“Please send me a text when you arrive.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does text mean?
noun
- A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
- A book, tome or other set of writings.
- Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
More meanings (7)
noun
- Ellipsis of text message, a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.
- Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
- A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
- A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
verb
- To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.
- To send and receive text messages.
- (dated) To write in large characters, as in text hand.
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IPA pronunciation
/tɛkst/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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For the first time in her life Marilla took no notice of the text and Anne sat with scarlet cheeks of mortification.
And now he had discovered in the text upon the page that these three were repeated many times in the same sequence.
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He seemed to like to give to his thoughts for text these funereal psalmodies filled with the vision of the other world.
Each number contained, in addition to the original text carefully reviewed and corrected, numerous explanatory notes and some "Tidings of the Revolution."
"It is the grown people who make the nursery stories," wrote Stevenson, "all the children do is jealously to preserve the text."