A document contains information . It often refers to an actual product of writing or recording and is usually intended to communicate or store collections of data . Documents are often the focus and concern of business administration and government administration . The word is also used as a verb as "documenting" describes the process of making a document.

The term document may be applied to any discrete representation of meaning, but usually it refers to something physical like one or more printed pages , or to a "virtual" document in electronic (digital) format. (Wikipedia,2007)

A file created using an application. For example, you might create a text document using a word processing application (such as Word) or a picture document using a graphic application (such as Paint Shop Pro).(http://www.visionsofadonai.com/onrampglossary.html)

Noun

• S: (n) text , 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"
• S: (n) text (a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon) "the preacher chose a text from Psalms to introduce his sermon"
• S: (n) textbook , text , text edition , schoolbook , school text (a book prepared for use in schools or colleges) "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy"
• S: (n) text (the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)) "pictures made the text easier to understand"

Text may refer to:

In books :

• a book
• a textbook
• Subtext
• e-text or e-book

In computing :

• character or string data , as opposed to binary data
• Code segment or text segment, a portion of memory or of an object file that contains executable computer instructions
• Plain text
• Text-based (computing) , an application whose primary input and output are based on text rather than graphics
• Boilerplate text
• Text file
• Formatted text
• Plaintext

In unit of study :

• hermeneutics
• philology
• Semiotics , the study of signs and symbols, both individually and grouped into sign systems
• cultural studies, the unit of discourse

In writing :

• a piece of writing
• Textual criticism

In other :

• TEXT , an avant-garde band

See also :

• TXT

A branch of linguistics that deals with texts as communication systems . Its original aims lay in uncovering and describing text grammars . The application of text linguistics has, however, evolved from this approach to a point in which text is viewed in much broader terms that go beyond a mere extension of traditional grammar towards an entire text. Text linguistics takes into account the form of a text, but also its setting, i.e. the way in which it is situated in an interactional, communicative context. Both the author of a (written or spoken) text as well as its addressee are taken into consideration in their respective (social and/or institutonal) roles in the specific communicative context. In general it is an application of linguistic analysis at the much broader level of text, rather than just a sentence or word. (Wikipedia,2007)