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bi-text

bi-text is the dated form of bitext.

Meaning of bitext

Noun

bitext (plural bitexts)

  1. A merged document composed of both source- and target-language versions of a given text.
    • Another way of putting it is to say that a bi-text is not two texts but a single text in two dimensions, each of which is a language.1988, Brian Harris, “Bi-text, a new concept intranslation theory”, in Language Monthly, number 54, pages 8–10
    Synonyms:
    parallel text

Forms of bi-text

pluralbi-texts

Questions about bi-text

What is bi-text the dated form of?
Bi-text is the dated form of bitext.

Words near bi-text in the dictionary

  1. bi-random
  2. bi-ritual
  3. bi-rotor
  4. bi-rotors
  5. bi-serrate
  6. bi-text
  7. bi-weekly
  8. bi4bi
  9. BIA
  10. Bia-o
  11. biacetabular

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bi-text (page history and authors); bitext (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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