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Texas Roadhouse

Texas Roadhouse (TXRH) is a Louisville, Kentucky-based casual dining steakhouse chain founded by Kent Taylor in 1993 in Clarksville, Indiana, operating Texas Roadhouse, Bubba's 33, and Jaggers, with 832 restaurants and about $5.9 billion in fiscal 2025 revenue.

Texas toast

Texas toast is thick-sliced white bread, about twice normal thickness, buttered and grilled; invented in 1941 at the Pig Stand in Beaumont, Texas, by Royce Hailey and cook Wiley W. W. Cross, now served nationwide.

Texhnolyze (テクノライズ)

Texhnolyze (テクノライズ, TEXHNOLYZE) is a 2003 Madhouse anime TV series on Fuji TV, directed by Hiroshi Hamasaki, written by Chiaki J. Konaka, with character design by Yoshitoshi ABe, set in the underground city Lux.

Text + Kritik

Text + Kritik is a German quarterly journal of literary studies, founded in 1963, in which each issue is devoted to a single German-language writer through essays.

Text types

Text types are abstract linguistic categories characterizing a text's dominant structure, such as narrative, description, and argument, distinguished from genre, which classifies whole texts by external purpose; key frameworks include Biber's, Kinneavy's, and Werlich's typologies.

Textile

Textile: any flexible material of interlaced natural or artificial fibers, also called cloth or fabric. Spun into yarn, formed by weaving, knitting, braiding, or nonwoven bonding; polyester overtook cotton as the leading fiber in the late 1990s.

Textile and clothing unions in Australia and New Zealand

Textile and clothing unions in Australia and New Zealand organized garment workers from the 1880s, ending in the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia, formed in 1992.

Textile and garment unions in China and Hong Kong

Textile and garment unions in China and Hong Kong are dominated by the state-run ACFTU on the mainland, while Hong Kong unions have narrowed sharply since the 2020 National Security Law.

Textile and garment unions in Japan and Korea

Textile and garment unions in Japan and South Korea represent spinning, weaving, and apparel workers; Japanese unionism is company-based, while Korean unionism drove the militant democratic labor movement.

Textile design

Textile design creates designs and products for woven, knitted, stitched, printed, or decorative textiles, spanning surface pattern and fabric structure. Key facts: AQA definition, Jacquard punch-card looms, women's entry into design, AI and e-textile frontiers.

Textile documentation and digitization projects

Textile documentation and digitization projects are systematic efforts to record and digitize textile heritage, combining object metadata, technical analysis, and imagery, from EU programs to community projects.

Textile industry

Textile industry: production of yarns and fabrics from natural and synthetic fibers. Also called the 'first industry'; spans spinning, weaving, wet processing, technical textiles; led the Industrial Revolution; employs over 75 million people globally.

Textile industry in Bangladesh

The textile industry in Bangladesh, centered on ready-made garments, is the world's second-largest garment exporter after China, earning about $38 billion and employing roughly 4 million workers, mostly women.

Textile industry in India

The textile industry in India, one of the country's oldest manufacturing sectors, spans fibre to garments, employs over 45 million directly, contributes about 2% of GDP, and is the world's sixth-largest textile exporter with a USD 100 billion export target by 2030.

Textile manufacturing

Textile manufacturing converts raw natural or synthetic fiber into yarn, fabric, and finished goods through spinning, weaving or knitting, dyeing, and finishing; a major global employer and a source of 5-10% of greenhouse gas emissions.

Textile study collections and swatch libraries

A textile study collection, or swatch library, is an archive of fabric samples and sample books assembled for research, reference, or commercial design use rather than public exhibition.

Textual criticism

Textual criticism compares manuscript and printed witnesses to establish a text's authentic wording. Key approaches: eclecticism, stemmatics (Lachmann, recensio and emendatio), and copy-text editing; central to biblical and classical editing.

Texture (music)

Texture (music): how melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic layers combine in a piece. Main types are monophony, homophony, polyphony, and heterophony, described as thick, thin, dense, or transparent.

Texture strokes

Texture strokes, known in Chinese as cunfa (皴法), are the brush techniques of Chinese landscape painting that render the texture and light-and-dark modeling of mountains, rocks, and tree bark.

Textured vegetable protein

Textured vegetable protein (TVP, also TSP or textured plant protein), a dehydrated extruded ingredient from defatted soy flour (also lentils, peas, faba beans), invented by ADM in the 1960s, approved for US school lunches in 1971, used as meat extender or meat analogue.

Textures

Textures is a Dutch progressive metal band formed in 2001 near Tilburg, an early European exponent of djent that reunited in 2026 to release the album Genotype.

Teyana Taylor

Teyana Taylor, also known as Teyana Me Shay Jacqueli Taylor, is an American R&B singer, choreographer, and actress from Harlem. Known for VII, K.T.S.E., The Album, and her Golden Globe-winning, Oscar-nominated role in One Battle After Another.

Teyonah Parris

Teyonah Parris is an American film and television actress and Juilliard graduate. She is widely known for roles in Mad Men, Dear White People, and The Marvel.

Tezaab (तेज़ाब)

Tezaab (तेज़ाब), a 1988 Hindi action romance directed by N. Chandra, starring Anil Kapoor as Munna and Madhuri Dixit as Mohini; highest-grossing Hindi film of 1988 with four Filmfare Awards and the hit song Ek Do Teen.

Tezer Özlü

Tezer Özlü (1942–1986) was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, and translator known for Cold Nights of Childhood (1980) and for Yaşamın Ucuna Yolculuk, which won the Marburg Literature Prize.

Tezkire

Tezkire (تذكرة, plural tezâkir) is a Persian and Turkish literary genre of collected poet biographies, recording lives, artistic views, and sample verses from the 16th century onward.

Tezkiretü'ş-Şu'ara

Tezkiretü'ş-Şu'ara is a biographical dictionary of Ottoman poets by Latîfî, completed in 1546 and presented to Sultan Süleyman. Its alphabetical arrangement and objective criticism set the pattern for later Ottoman tezkires.

Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (手塚治虫文化賞)

The Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (手塚治虫文化賞) is an annual manga award sponsored by Asahi Shimbun, established in 1997 to honor Osamu Tezuka, revered as Japan's "God of Manga."

Tezz

Tezz (तेज़) is a 2012 Hindi action thriller directed by Priyadarshan, starring Ajay Devgn and Anil Kapoor, about a bomb on a London–Glasgow train; a box-office flop.

Tezzus & Diamond*

Tezzus & Diamond are an Atlanta hip hop duo, also known as ØWay co-founders, who signed to Young Thug's YSL in October 2025 after "Bada Bing, Bada Bøøm" and released the debut mixtape UY SCUTI BØYZ in April 2026.