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sext, sexting, sexted (SEKST, SEKST ing, SEKST'd) (verbs)
1. A portmanteau (combination) of sex and texting which is the act of sending sexually explicit messages or photos electronically, primarily between cell phones: "The mother of a twelve-year old girl was caught sexting a nude photo of herself to her boy friend."
2. Sending sexually explicit text messages via electronic means between individuals which may include pictures: "Both parents of the boy and girl were very upset when they found out that their children had sexted to each other."
2. Sending sexually explicit text messages via electronic means between individuals which may include pictures: "Both parents of the boy and girl were very upset when they found out that their children had sexted to each other."
"In other parts of the country, teens have been arrested for sexting on the internet."
sexting (SEKST ing) (noun)
The slang term for the use of a cell phone or other similar electronic device to distribute pictures or video of sexually explicit images: "Sexting also refers to text messages of an obviously sexual-content."
Come on people, don't you know that your sexted messages on the internet can be seen by other people?
Every time you sext images and messages, you have actually sexted them for the world to see.
text, texting, texted (TEKST, TEKST ing, TEKST'd) (verbs)
To use an electronic device to send a message: "Her friend texted her when she arrived in town."
"A six-month trial of mobile calling, texting, and other data services were made available to their customers."
Hey, friend, I've been texting you for several days and you haven't texted me back. Would you please text me soon so I'll know that you are all right.
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(Latin: book; originally, the "inner bark of a tree", whence "the text written on this", "collection of leaves for writing", and finally "book")
(Text of Commencement Address at Stanford University)
(other languages expressing the words mosquito, mosquitoes as shown in Latinized-text format)
(Latin: to weave, woven; to structure, to make)
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“text”
1. An ancient way of writing manuscripts and other inscriptions in which, rather than going from left to right as in modern English, or right to left as in Arabic, alternate lines must be read in opposite directions: "As a student of ancient writings, Jamie was interested in the boustrophedon texts that he discovered in some classical documents."
2. Etymologically these words come from Greek βους, "ox" and στρεφειν, "to turn", because the hand of the writer went back and forth like an ox drawing a plow across a field and turning at the end of each row to return in the opposite direction.
2. Etymologically these words come from Greek βους, "ox" and στρεφειν, "to turn", because the hand of the writer went back and forth like an ox drawing a plow across a field and turning at the end of each row to return in the opposite direction.
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stroph-, -strophy, -strophe, -strophical, -strophism, -strophic, -strophes, strepto-, strept-
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text-, tex-
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