The difference between Binary and Text

When used as nouns, binary means a thing which can have only (one or the other of) two values, whereas text means a writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.


Binary is also adjective with the meaning: being in a state of one of two mutually exclusive conditions such as on or off, true or false, molten or frozen, presence or absence of a signal.

Text is also verb with the meaning: to send a text message to.

check bellow for the other definitions of Binary and Text

  1. Binary as an adjective:

    Being in a state of one of two mutually exclusive conditions such as on or off, true or false, molten or frozen, presence or absence of a signal.

    Examples:

    "Binary states are often represented as 1 and 0 in computer science."

  2. Binary as an adjective (logic):

    Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns binary states.

  3. Binary as an adjective (arithmetic, computing):

    Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.

  4. Binary as an adjective:

    Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts.

    Examples:

    "Two ingredients are combined in a binary poison."

    "A binary statistical distribution has only two categories."

  5. Binary as an adjective (mathematics, programming, computer engineering):

    Of an operation, function, procedure or logic gate, taking exactly two operands, arguments, parameters or inputs; having domain of dimension 2.

    Examples:

    "Division of reals is a binary operation."

  6. Binary as an adjective (computing):

    Of data, consisting coded values (e.g. machine code) not interpretable as plain or ASCII text (e.g. source code).

    Examples:

    "He downloaded the binary distribution for Linux, then burned it to DVD."

  7. Binary as an adjective (comparable):

    Focusing on two mutually exclusive conditions.

    Examples:

    "He has a very binary understanding of gender."

  1. Binary as a noun:

    A thing which can have only (one or the other of) two values.

  2. Binary as a noun (mathematics, computing, uncountable):

    The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.

  3. Binary as a noun (computing):

    An executable computer file.

  4. Binary as a noun (astronomy):

    A satellite system consisting of two stars or other bodies orbiting each other.

  1. Text as a noun:

    A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.

  2. Text as a noun:

    A book, tome or other set of writings.

  3. Text as a noun (colloquial):

    A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones; an SMS text message.

  4. Text as a noun (computing):

    Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text (often contrasted with binary data).

  5. Text as a noun:

    A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.

  6. Text as a noun:

    Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.; topic; theme.

  7. Text as a noun:

    A style of writing in large characters; text-hand; also, a kind of type used in printing.

    Examples:

    "German text"

  1. Text as a verb (transitive):

    To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.

    Examples:

    "Just text me when you get here."

    "I'll text the address to you as soon as I find it."

  2. Text as a verb (intransitive):

    To send and receive text messages.

    Examples:

    "Have you been texting all afternoon?"

  3. Text as a verb:

    To write in large characters, as in text hand.