Textual
adjective
Related to or based on writing.
Your textual analysis of the novel was very insightful.
Often appears as...
- textual analysis
- textual evidence
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Approaching by close examination of a text.
The textual criticism helped improve the manuscript.
Often appears as...
- textual criticism
- textual study
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Formal
Academic
adjective
Related to the words of a document, as opposed to its layout or format.
The textual data was used to build the website's meta tags.
Often appears as...
- textual data
- textual format
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Related to or based on writing.
Your textual analysis of the novel was very insightful.
Often appears as...
- textual analysis
- textual evidence
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Approaching by close examination of a text.
The textual criticism helped improve the manuscript.
Often appears as...
- textual criticism
- textual study
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adjective
Related to the words of a document, as opposed to its layout or format.
The textual data was used to build the website's meta tags.
Often appears as...
- textual data
- textual format
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Academic Usage
Mostly used in academic contexts, especially when analyzing texts like books or articles.
Textual analysis is key to understanding the themes of the novel.
Pro Tip 2/2Evidence Support
Often refers to quoting from a text to support an argument or point.
She provided textual evidence to back her argument about the character's motive.
Pro Tip 1/2Academic Usage
Mostly used in academic contexts, especially when analyzing texts like books or articles.
Textual analysis is key to understanding the themes of the novel.
Pro Tip 2/2Evidence Support
Often refers to quoting from a text to support an argument or point.
She provided textual evidence to back her argument about the character's motive.
Pro Tip 1/2Academic Usage
Mostly used in academic contexts, especially when analyzing texts like books or articles.
Textual analysis is key to understanding the themes of the novel.
Pro Tip 2/2Evidence Support
Often refers to quoting from a text to support an argument or point.
She provided textual evidence to back her argument about the character's motive.
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What about the future? There's so much of the past, and so few people with the skills to rescue it before these objects disappear forever. That's why I have begun to teach this new hybrid discipline that I call "textual science."
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amount of textual information around us billboards street names newspapers books products on various surfaces and material then crossing the street catching a bus purchasing a product and
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How I'm discovering the...
What about the future? There's so much of the past, and so few people with the skills to rescue it before these objects disappear forever. That's why I have begun to teach this new hybrid discipline that I call "textual science."
Video examples
Tech that helps the...
amount of textual information around us billboards street names newspapers books products on various surfaces and material then crossing the street catching a bus purchasing a product and
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Quote examples
Alexander Kluge
German Director
When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.
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Richard K. Morgan
English Author
I guess if I was made responsible for every single line of dialogue in a game and every single piece of textual visual detail, every sign or piece of graffiti, then yes, I think that would be comparable to the time and effort required to write a very long novel, indeed.
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K. D. Lang
Canadian Musician
I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.
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Arthur Penn
American Director
I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British style of acting. The British orientation is textual; they start from the language and work toward the character.
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Barbara Kruger
American Artist
I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.
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Mohsin Hamid
Pakistani Writer
Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture.
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Tom Stoppard
English Dramatist
Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.
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Norman McLaren
Scottish Artist
By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.
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David Foster Wallace
American Writer
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
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Mitch Kapor
American Businessman
Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.
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Alexander Kluge
German Director
When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.
Quote examples
Richard K. Morgan
English Author
I guess if I was made responsible for every single line of dialogue in a game and every single piece of textual visual detail, every sign or piece of graffiti, then yes, I think that would be comparable to the time and effort required to write a very long novel, indeed.
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K. D. Lang
Canadian Musician
I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.
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Arthur Penn
American Director
I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British style of acting. The British orientation is textual; they start from the language and work toward the character.
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Barbara Kruger
American Artist
I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.
Quote examples
Mohsin Hamid
Pakistani Writer
Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture.
Quote examples
Tom Stoppard
English Dramatist
Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.
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Norman McLaren
Scottish Artist
By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.
Quote examples
David Foster Wallace
American Writer
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
Quote examples
Mitch Kapor
American Businessman
Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.
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