textual matter

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textual matter - the words of something written; "there were more than a thousand words of text"; "they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech"; "he wants to reconstruct the original text"textcolumn - a page or text that is vertically divided; "the newspaper devoted several columns to the subject"; "the bookkeeper used pages that were divided into columns"matter - written works (especially in books or magazines); "he always took some reading matter with him on the plane"cookie - a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web siteword order - the order of words in a textwritten matter, copy - matter to be printed; exclusive of graphical materialsdraft copy, draft - any of the various versions in the development of a written work; "a preliminary draft"; "the final draft of the constitution"electronic text - text that is in a form that computer can store or display on a computer screeninstalment, installment - a part of a published serialbook - a major division of a long written composition; "the book of Isaiah"chapter - a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled; "he read a chapter every night before falling asleep"foreword, preface, prolusion - a short introductory essay preceding the text of a bookparagraph - one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented linepassage - a section of text; particularly a section of medium lengthpublication - a copy of a printed work offered for distributionletter, missive - a written message addressed to a person or organization; "mailed an indignant letter to the editor"line - text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen; "the letter consisted of three short lines"; "there are six lines in every stanza"lipogram - a text that excludes a particular letter or particular letters of the alphabetlyric, words, language - the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language"stanza - a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem