prose text

collocation in English

meaningsofproseandtext

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prose
noun[U]
uk
/prəʊz/us
/proʊz/
written language in its ordinary form rather ...
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text
noun
uk
/tekst/us
/tekst/
the written words in a book, magazine, etc., not ...
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(Definition ofproseandtextfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprose text

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What this woman is about and what his knowledge of her consists of - these two questions are inextricably intertwined and form the real narrative object of theprosetext.
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Here as elsewhere the song inserted as poetry within aprosetextis a sub-genre with thematic and autobiographical elements.
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The average adult readsprosetextat 250 to 300 words per minute.
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This play also includes twelve shortprosetext.
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This 13th-centuryprosetextis not considered historically reliable.
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It is a topicalprosetext, supplemented with graphical pictures comprising hieroglyphic text, as examples, and chapters supplemented with tables for explaining discussions, and introducing more complex hieroglyph word examples.
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To remedy this, we have examined a larger collection of prose texts from the first half of the sixteenth century.
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The prose texts cannot therefore offer an uncomplicated prescription for the art-work of the future.
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To be precise, it is still attested in prose texts from the period 1500-50.
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In order to determine when these limited types of object-verb order became impossible, we have examined a collection of sixteenth-century prose texts.
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For the prose texts, the figures are : 4, 22, 160.
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Gregorian melodies are set to mostly prose texts and contain all different melodic types, from the simplest syllabic tune to elaborate and rich melismas over individual syllables.
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For one thing, the early appearance of periphrastic do in verse may well be a mirage effect of the rarity of prose texts in the crucial period.
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The manuscript is lavishly illustrated and decorated, and includes 370 poetry and prose texts on moral or religious subjects, intended to be read by the pious.
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These are readily intelligible prose texts.
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