word

W0218600 (wûrd)n.1. A sound or a combination of sounds, or its representation in writing or printing, that symbolizes and communicates a meaning and may consist of a single morpheme or of a combination of morphemes.2. a. Something said; an utterance, remark, or comment: May I say a word about that?b. A command or direction; an order: gave the word to retreat.c. An assurance or promise; sworn intention: She has kept her word.d. A verbal signal; a password or watchword.3. wordsa. Discourse or talk; speech: Actions speak louder than words.b. Music The text of a vocal composition; lyrics.c. Hostile or angry remarks made back and forth.4. a. News: Any word on your promotion?b. Rumor: Word has it they're divorcing.5. Used euphemistically in combination with the initial letter of a term that is considered offensive or taboo or that one does not want to utter: "Although economists here will not call it a recession yet, the dreaded 'R' word is beginning to pop up in the media" (Francine S. Kiefer).6. Worda. See Logos.b. The Scriptures; the Bible.7. Computers A set of bits that is of a fixed size and is typically operated on by a computer's processor.tr.v. word·ed, word·ing, words To express in words: worded the petition carefully.interj. Slang Used to express approval or an affirmative response to something. Sometimes used with up.Idioms: at a word In immediate response. good word1. A favorable comment: She put in a good word for me.2. Favorable news. have a word with To have a brief conversation with (someone); speak to. have no words for To be unable to describe or talk about. in a word In short; in summary: In a word, the situation is serious. in so many words1. In precisely those words; exactly: hinted at impending indictments but did not say it in so many words.2. Speaking candidly and straightforwardly: In so many words, the weather has been beastly. of few words Not conversational or loquacious; laconic: a person of few words. of (one's) word Displaying personal dependability: a woman of her word. take at (someone's) word To be convinced of another's sincerity and act in accord with his or her statement: We took them at their word that the job would be done on time. take (someone's) word for it To believe what someone says without investigating further. upon my word Indeed; really.

[Middle English, from Old English; see wer- in Indo-European roots.]

word

(wɜːd) n1. (Linguistics) one of the units of speech or writing that native speakers of a language usually regard as the smallest isolable meaningful element of the language, although linguists would analyse these further into morphemes. 2. an instance of vocal intercourse; chat, talk, or discussion: to have a word with someone. 3. an utterance or expression, esp a brief one: a word of greeting. 4. news or information: he sent word that he would be late. 5. a verbal signal for action; command: when I give the word, fire!. 6. an undertaking or promise: I give you my word; he kept his word. 7. an autocratic decree or utterance; order: his word must be obeyed. 8. a watchword or slogan, as of a political party: the word now is 'freedom'. 9. (Computer Science) computing a set of bits used to store, transmit, or operate upon an item of information in a computer, such as a program instruction10. as good as one's word doing what one has undertaken or promised to do11. at a word at once12. by word of mouth orally rather than by written means13. in a word briefly or in short14. my word! a. an exclamation of surprise, annoyance, etcb. Austral an exclamation of agreement15. of one's word given to or noted for keeping one's promises: I am a man of my word. 16. put in a word for put in a good word for to make favourable mention of (someone); recommend17. take someone at his word take someone at her word to assume that someone means, or will do, what he or she says: when he told her to go, she took him at his word and left. 18. take someone's word for it to accept or believe what someone says19. the last word a. the closing remark of a conversation or argument, esp a remark that supposedly settles an issueb. the latest or most fashionable design, make, or model: the last word in bikinis. c. the finest example (of some quality, condition, etc): the last word in luxury. 20. the word the proper or most fitting expression: cold is not the word for it, it's freezing!. 21. upon my word! a. archaic on my honourb. an exclamation of surprise, annoyance, etc22. word for word a. (of a report, transcription, etc) using exactly the same words as those employed in the situation being reported; verbatimb. translated by substituting each word in the new text for each corresponding word in the original rather than by general sense23. word of honour a promise; oath24. (modifier) of, relating to, or consisting of words: a word list. vb25. (tr) to state in words, usually specially selected ones; phrase26. informal (often foll by: up) Austral to inform or advise (a person)[Old English word; related to Old High German wort, Old Norse orth, Gothic waurd, Latin verbum, Sanskrit vratá command]

Word

(wɜːd) n1. (Ecclesiastical Terms) Christianity the 2nd person of the Trinity2. (Theology) Scripture, the Bible, or the Gospels as embodying or representing divine revelation. Often called: the Word of God [translation of Greek logos, as in John 1:1]

word

(wɜrd)

n. 1. a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning, is typically seen as the smallest such unit capable of independent use, is separated from other such units by spaces in writing, and is often distinguished phonologically, as by accent or pause. 2. words, a. verbal expression, esp. speech or talk: to express one's emotions in words. b. the text or lyrics of a song as distinguished from the music. c. contentious or angry speech; a quarrel. 3. a short talk or conversation: May I have a word with you? 4. an expression or utterance: a word of warning. 5. warrant, assurance, or promise: I give you my word I'll be there. 6. news; tidings; information: We received word of an uprising. 7. a verbal signal, as a password, watchword, or countersign. 8. an authoritative utterance or command: His word was law. 9. a string of bits or bytes of fixed length treated as a unit for storage and processing by a computer. 10. (cap.) Also called the Word, the Word′ of God′. a. the Scriptures; the Bible. b. the Logos. c. the message of the gospel of Christ. 11. a proverb or motto. 12. (used to form a usu. humorous euphemism by combining with the initial letter of a taboo or supposedly taboo word): a ban on television's use of the F-word. Taxes - politicians' dreaded T-word. v.t. 13. to select words to express; phrase: to word a contract carefully. interj. 14. Sometimes, word up. Slang. (used to express satisfaction, approval, or agreement): You got a job? Word! Idioms: 1. be as good as one's word, to do what one has promised. 2. eat one's words, to retract one's statement, esp. with humility. 3. in a word, in summary; in short. 4. in so many words, in unequivocal terms; explicitly: She told them in so many words to get out. 5. man of his word or woman of her word, a trustworthy, reliable person. 6. my word! or upon my word! (used as an exclamation of surprise or astonishment.) 7. of few words, not talkative; laconic; taciturn. 8. of many words, talkative; loquacious; wordy. 9. put in a (good) word for, to speak favorably on behalf of; commend. 10. take one at one's word, to take a statement to be literal and true. 11. take the words out of someone's mouth, to say exactly what another person was about to say. [before 900; Middle English, Old English, c. Old Frisian, Old Saxon word, Old High German wort, Old Norse orth, Gothic waurd; akin to Latin verbum word, Lithuanian vardas name]

Word(s)

See Also: SPEAKING; WORDS, DEFINED; WORDS, EFFECT OF; WORDS OF PRAISE; WRITERS/WRITING

Applying words like bandages —William Mcllvanney
Words should be scattered like seed; no matter how small the seed may be, if it has once found favorable ground, it unfolds its strength —Seneca
Words, like Nature, half reveal and half conceal the Soul within —Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Her words still hung in the air between us like a whisp of tobacco smoke —Evelyn Waugh
It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn —Robert Southey
Words, like men, grow an individuality; their character changes with years and with use —Anon
Words, like fine flowers, have their color too —Ernest Rhys
Words, like clothes, get old-fashioned, or mean and ridiculous, when they have been for some time laid aside —William Hazlitt
Words, like fashions, disappear and recur throughout English history —Virginia Graham
The word seemed to linger in the air, to throb in the air like the note of a violin —Katherine Mansfield
Her words at first seemed fitful like the talking of the trees —Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(She spoke to them slowly,) dropping the words like ping pong balls —Helen Hudson
Every word hanging like the sack of cement on a murdered body at the bottom of the river —Diane Wakoski
Her words fell like rain on a waterproof umbrella; they made a noise, but they could not reach the head which they seemed destined to deluge —Frances Trollope
His words were smoother than oil (and yet be they swords) —The Book of Common Prayer
It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken —Menander
Like blood from a cut vein, words flowed —James Morrow
My words slipped from me like broken weapons —Edith Wharton
An old sentence … ran through her mind like a frightened mouse in a maze —Babs H. Deal
The rest [words meant to remain unspoken] rolled out like string from a hidden ball of twine —Lynne Sharon Schwartz
The sentence rang over and over again in his mind like a dirge —Margaret Millar
Stiff as frozen rope words poke out —Marge Piercy
They [a group at a party] flung them [words] like weapons, handled them like jewels, tossed them on air with reckless abandon as though they scattered confetti —Mary Hedin
The word hissed like steam escaping from an overloaded pressure system —Ross Macdonald
A word once spoken, like an arrow shot, can never be retracted —Anon
This simile was first used by Talmudic rabbis
Words as meaningless and wonderful as wind chimes —Sharon Sheehe Stark
The words came out like bullets —H. E. Bates
Words came out … tumbling like a litter of puppies from a kennel —F. van Wyck Mason
The words crumbled in his mouth like ashes —William Diehl
Words … danced in my mind like wild ponies that moved only to my command —Hortense Calisher
Words falling softly as rose petals —Mary Hedin
Words, frothy and toneless like a chain of bursting bubbles —L. P. Hartley
Words gushing and tumbling as if a hose had been turned on —Rose Tremain
Words gush like toothpaste —Margaret Atwood
The words [just spoken] hung like smoke in the air —Doris Grumbach
Words … like bits of cold wind —Mary Hedin
(She dealt her) words like blades —Emily Dickinson
Words, like butterflies, stagger from his lips —John Updike
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision —Joseph Joubet
Words … limp and clear like a jellyfish … hard and mean and secretive like a horned snail … austere and comical as top hats, or smooth and lively and flattering as ribbons —Alice Munro
The narrator of Munro’s story, Spelling, contemplates the meaning of words while visiting an old woman.
The word spiralled through the silence like a worm in wood —Harris Downey
The words (out) of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords —The Holy Bible/Psalms
Words … plunked down with a click like chessmen —Yehuda Amichai
Words … poured wetly from her red lips as from a pitcher —Lynne Sharon Schwartz
The words rang in the silence like the sound of a great cash register —Kingsley Amis
Words ran together too quickly, like rapid water —Joanna Wojewski Higgins
Words roll around in Benna’s mouth [heroine of novel, Anagrams, by Lorrie Moore] like Life Savers on a tongue —Carol Hills, New York Times Book Review, November 2, 1986
Words that string and creep like insects —Conrad Aiken
Words … tumbling out and tripping over each other like mice —Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
The words went by like flights of moths under the star-soaked sky —Adrienne Rich
Words … white and anonymous as a snowball —Donald McCaig
See Also: WHITE
(If he once … let loose … the) words would come like a great flood, like vomiting —George Garrett
Your words to the end, hard as a pair of new cowboy boots —A. D. Winans
See Also: TOUGHNESS

word

Past participle: worded
Gerund: wording

Imperative
word
word

Present
I word
you word
he/she/it words
we word
you word
they word

Preterite
I worded
you worded
he/she/it worded
we worded
you worded
they worded

Present Continuous
I am wording
you are wording
he/she/it is wording
we are wording
you are wording
they are wording

Present Perfect
I have worded
you have worded
he/she/it has worded
we have worded
you have worded
they have worded

Past Continuous
I was wording
you were wording
he/she/it was wording
we were wording
you were wording
they were wording

Past Perfect
I had worded
you had worded
he/she/it had worded
we had worded
you had worded
they had worded

Future
I will word
you will word
he/she/it will word
we will word
you will word
they will word

Future Perfect
I will have worded
you will have worded
he/she/it will have worded
we will have worded
you will have worded
they will have worded

Future Continuous
I will be wording
you will be wording
he/she/it will be wording
we will be wording
you will be wording
they will be wording

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been wording
you have been wording
he/she/it has been wording
we have been wording
you have been wording
they have been wording

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been wording
you will have been wording
he/she/it will have been wording
we will have been wording
you will have been wording
they will have been wording

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been wording
you had been wording
he/she/it had been wording
we had been wording
you had been wording
they had been wording

Conditional
I would word
you would word
he/she/it would word
we would word
you would word
they would word

Past Conditional
I would have worded
you would have worded
he/she/it would have worded
we would have worded
you would have worded
they would have worded

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	word - a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"language unit, linguistic unit - one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzedanagram - a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phraseanaphor - a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedentantonym, opposite, opposite word - a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'"back-formation - a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from itcharade - a word acted out in an episode of the game of charadescognate word, cognate - a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral languagecontent word, open-class word - a word to which an independent meaning can be assignedcontraction - a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds; "`won't' is a contraction of `will not'"; "`o'clock' is a contraction of `of the clock'"deictic, deictic word - a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs; "words that introduce particulars of the speaker's and hearer's shared cognitive field into the message"- R.Rommetveitderivative - (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word; "`electricity' is a derivative of `electric'"diminutive - a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallnessdirty word - a word that is considered to be unmentionable; "`failure' is a dirty word to him"dissyllable, disyllable - a word having two syllablesdescriptor, form, signifier, word form - the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached"four-letter Anglo-Saxon word, four-letter word - any of several short English words (often having 4 letters) generally regarded as obscene or offensiveclosed-class word, function word - a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaningguide word, guideword, catchword - a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that pagehead word, head - (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituentheadword - a word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry)heteronym - two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation; "the word `bow' is an example of a heteronym"holonym, whole name - a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part; "`hat' is a holonym for `brim' and `crown'"homonym - two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meaningshypernym, superordinate word, superordinate - a word that is more generic than a given wordhyponym, subordinate word, subordinate - a word that is more specific than a given wordkey word - a significant word used in indexing or cataloginghybrid, loanblend, loan-blend - a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)loanword, loan - a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern Englishmeronym, part name - a word that names a part of a larger whole; "`brim' and `crown' are meronyms of `hat'"metonym - a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing; "Washington is a metonym for the United States government"; "plastic is a metonym for credit card"monosyllabic word, monosyllable - a word or utterance of one syllableneologism, neology, coinage - a newly invented word or phrasehapax legomenon, nonce word - a word with a special meaning used for a special occasionoxytone - word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllablepalindrome - a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forwardprimitive - a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"paroxytone - word having stress or acute accent on the next to last syllablepartitive - word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a wholepolysemant, polysemantic word, polysemous word - a word having more than one meaning
	2.	word - a brief statement; "he didn't say a word about it"statement - a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc; "according to his statement he was in London on that day"
	3.	word - information about recent and important events; "they awaited news of the outcome"news, tidings, intelligenceinfo, information - a message received and understoodgood word - good newslatest - the most recent news or development; "have you heard the latest?"update - news that updates your information
	4.	word - a verbal command for action; "when I give the word, charge!"order - (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed; "the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London"
	5.	word - an exchange of views on some topic; "we had a good discussion"; "we had a word or two about it"give-and-take, discussionspeech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication, oral communication, speech, language - (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"argumentation, debate, argument - a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal; "the argument over foreign aid goes on and on"deliberation - (usually plural) discussion of all sides of a question; "the deliberations of the jury"group discussion, conference - a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topicpanel discussion - discussion of a subject of public interest by a group of persons forming a panel usually before an audiencepostmortem, post-mortem - discussion of an event after it has occurredpublic discussion, ventilation - free and open discussion of (or debate on) some question of public interest; "such a proposal deserves thorough public discussion"negotiation, talks, dialogue - a discussion intended to produce an agreement; "the buyout negotiation lasted several days"; "they disagreed but kept an open dialogue"; "talks between Israelis and Palestinians"
	6.	word - a promise; "he gave his word" parole, word of honorpromise - a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future
	7.	word - a word is a string of bits stored in computer memory; "large computers use words up to 64 bits long"computer memory unit - a unit for measuring computer memorybyte - a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of informationKiB, kibibyte, kilobyte, kB, K - a unit of information equal to 1024 bytes
	8.	Word - the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)Logos, Son
	9.	word - a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group; "he forgot the password"countersign, password, watchword, parolearcanum, secret - information known only to a special group; "the secret of Cajun cooking"positive identification - evidence proving that you are who you say you are; evidence establishing that you are among the group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to acceptance; "a system for positive identification can prevent the use of a single identity by several people"
	10.	Word - the sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen"Christian Bible, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Bible, Word of God, Bookreligious text, religious writing, sacred text, sacred writing - writing that is venerated for the worship of a deityfamily Bible - a large Bible with pages to record marriages and birthsOld Testament - the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian BibleTestament - either of the two main parts of the Christian BibleNew Testament - the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Biblecovenant - (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in returneisegesis - personal interpretation of a text (especially of the Bible) using your own ideasexegesis - an explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible)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"Gabriel - (Bible) the archangel who was the messenger of GodNoachian deluge, Noah and the Flood, Noah's flood, the Flood - (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beingsdemythologise, demythologize - remove the mythical element from (writings); "the Bible should be demythologized and examined for its historical value"
Verb	1.	word - put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees"give voice, phrase, articulate, formulateask - direct or put; seek an answer to; "ask a question"evince, express, show - give expression to; "She showed her disappointment"lexicalise, lexicalize - make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language; "The concept expressed by German `Gemuetlichkeit' is not lexicalized in English"dogmatise, dogmatize - state as a dogmaformularise, formularize - express as a formulacouch, redact, put, frame, cast - formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"

word

noun1. term, name, expression, designation, appellation (formal), locution, vocable The word `ginseng' comes from the Chinese word `Shen-seng'.2. chat, tête-à-tête, talk, discussion, consultation, chitchat, brief conversation, colloquy, confabulation, confab (informal), heart-to-heart, powwow (informal) James, could I have a quick word with you?3. comment, remark, expression, declaration, utterance, brief statement I'd like to say a word of thanks to everyone who helped me.4. message, news, latest (informal), report, information, account, notice, advice, communication, intelligence, bulletin, dispatch, gen (Brit. informal), communiqué, intimation, tidings There is no word from the authorities on the reported attack.5. promise, guarantee, pledge, undertaking, vow, assurance, oath, parole, word of honour, solemn oath, solemn word He simply cannot be trusted to keep his word.6. command, will, order, go-ahead (informal), decree, bidding, mandate, commandment, edict, ukase (rare) I want nothing said about this until I give the word.7. rumour, talk, gossip, hearsay, the word on the street (informal) The word is that he's planning to retire.plural noun1. remark, comment, statement, observation, declaration, utterance, pronouncement I was devastated when her words came true.2. text, script, lyrics Can you hear the words on the album?verb1. express, say, state, put, phrase, utter, couch, formulate If I had written the letter, I might have worded it differently.have words argue, fight, row, clash, disagree, fall out (informal), feud, quarrel, squabble, wrangle, bicker, have a row, lock horns, cross swords, be at each other's throats, have a tiff (informal), have a barney (Brit. informal) We had words and she stormed out.in a word briefly, in short, in a nutshell, to sum up, succinctly, concisely, not to put too fine a point on it, to put it briefly `Don't you like her?' `In a word - no.'the last word1. final say, ultimatum Our manager has the last word on all major decisions.2. summation, finis We'll let this gentleman have the last word.the last word in something epitome, newest, best, latest, crown, cream, rage, ultimate, vogue, perfection, mother of all (informal), quintessence, crème de la crème (French), ne plus ultra (French), dernier cri (French) The spa is the last word in luxury.word for word1. verbatim, precisely, exactly, faithfully, to the letter, line for line, letter-for-letter He repeated the whole conversation word for word.2. verbatim, direct, strict, accurate, exact, precise, faithful, literal, unadulterated, unabridged, unvarnished, undeviating, unembellished a word-for-word account of what had been saidRelated words
adjective lexical, verbal
like verbomania
fear logophobiaQuotations
"In the beginning was the Word" Bible: St. John
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" [Rudyard Kipling]
"For words, like Nature, half reveal"
"And half conceal the Soul within" [Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
"`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'" [Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass]
"Words just say what you want them to say; they don't know any better" [A.L. Kennedy The Role of Notable Silences in Scottish History]
"and once sent out, a word takes wing beyond recall" [Horace Epistles]
"Words are the physicians of a mind diseased" [Aeschylus Prometheus Bound]
"Thought flies and words go on foot" [Julien Green Journal]
"How often misused words generate misleading thoughts" [Herbert Spencer Principles of Ethics]
"Words are the tokens current and accepted for conceits, as moneys are for values" [Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning]
"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them" [Thomas Hobbes Leviathan]
"Oaths are but words, and words but wind" [Samuel Butler Hudibras]

word

noun1. A sound or combination of sounds that symbolizes and communicates a meaning:expression, locution, term.2. Something said:saying, statement, utterance.3. Something communicated, as information:communication, message.4. A declaration that one will or will not do a certain thing:assurance, covenant, engagement, guarantee, guaranty, pledge, plight, promise, solemn word, vow, warrant, word of honor.5. An authoritative indication to be obeyed:behest, bidding, charge, command, commandment, dictate, direction, directive, injunction, instruction (often used in plural), mandate, order.6. New information, especially about recent events and happenings:advice (often used in plural), intelligence, news, tiding (often used in plural).Informal: scoop.7. Idle, often sensational and groundless talk about others:gossip, gossipry, hearsay, report, rumor, talebearing, tattle, tittle-tattle.Slang: scuttlebutt.8. A discussion, often heated, in which a difference of opinion is expressed.Used in plural:altercation, argument, bicker, clash, contention, controversy, debate, difficulty, disagreement, dispute, fight, polemic, quarrel, run-in, spat, squabble, tiff, wrangle.Informal: hassle, rhubarb, tangle.verbTo convey in language or words of a particular form:couch, express, formulate, phrase, put.

Translations

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(wəːd) noun1. the smallest unit of language (whether written, spoken or read). 单词2. a (brief) conversation. I'd like a (quick) word with you in my office. （简短）谈话 3. news. When you get there, send word that you've arrived safely.消息4. a solemn promise. He gave her his word that it would never happen again.诺言 verb to express in written or spoken language. How are you going to word the letter so that it doesn't seem rude?用言词表达ˈwording noun the manner of expressing something, the choice of words etc. 措词ˈword processor noun a program for writing or editing texts, letters etc and storing them in the computer's memory; a computer used for doing this. （计）文字处理软件 ˈword processing noun文字处理ˌword-ˈperfect adjective repeated, or able to repeat something, precisely in the original words. a word-perfect performance; He wants to be word-perfect by next week's rehearsal.一字不错地熟记的by word of mouth by one person telling another in speech, not in writing. She got the information by word of mouth.口头的get a word in edgeways to break into a conversation etc and say something. 插话in a word to sum up briefly. In a word, I don't like him. 一句话，总而言之 keep/break one's word to keep or fail to keep one's promise. 遵守诺言／失言 take (someone) at his/her word to believe (someone) without question and act according to his words. 相信并遵照某人的话take someone's word for it to assume that what someone says is correct (without checking). （未查证便）相信某人的话 word for word in the exact, original words. That's precisely what he told me, word for word.逐字的

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Computing a set of bits used to store, transmit, or operate upon an item of information in a computer, such as a program instruction

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the1. Christianity the 2nd person of the Trinity 2. Scripture, the Bible, or the Gospels as embodying or representing divine revelation

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the most important structural and semantic unit of language, serving to name objects, actions, and attributes. Structurally, the word consists of morphemes, sometimes of only one morpheme: tam, “there”; vchera, “yesterday.” The word differs from the morpheme in that it is independent and freely reproduced in speech. The word is the building block of the sentence, but unlike the sentence, the word does not express a message.

The basic type of word, the content word (dom, “house”: khleb, “bread”; khodit’, “go”; bol’shoi, “big”) is structural in nature. It has its own stress and also has phonic boundary signals. Pauses may exist between words but not within a word. Words are impenetrable; that is, one word may not exist within the structure of another. Semantically, words are idiomatic owing to the arbitrariness of the connection between their meaning and phonic substance. Words also have an autonomous nominative function: they refer independently to objects and phenomena. This function is connected with their repeatability in speech, their isolability, and their ability to constitute a minimal sentence.

Combining both lexical and grammatical meanings, the word belongs to a specific part of speech and expresses any of the grammatical meanings in the system of a given language. For example, Russian adjectives express gender, number, and case. In inflected languages, the word represents the aggregate of all its grammatical forms: such forms as khozhu (“I go”), khodish’ (“you go”), and khodil (“he went”) constitute a single verb, khodit’ (“to go”). The results of cognitive activity are consolidated in words. Without words, ideas and concepts may not be expressed, transmitted, or even formed.

The meaning of a word is the generalized reflection of the object it signifies. In speech, a word may designate either an entire class of objects (Sobaka—zhivotnoe, “The dog is an animal”) or a single representative of that class (Eto ch’ia sobaka? “Whose dog is this?”). A word’s meaning reflects a dialectical correlation between the general and specific and between what is fixed and changeable. The stability of a word’s meaning permits mutual comprehension. On the other hand, shifts in the concrete meaning of a word make it possible to use the word for naming new objects, and the shifts are an aspect of literary creativity. The tendency toward polysemy is connected with this flexibility.

The speaker’s attitude toward the object being named constitutes the emotional aspects of the word’s meaning: this aspect expresses feelings and the speaker’s subjective opinion (gorodok, “small town”; gorodishko, “wretched little town”). Words form a system based on grammatical features (parts of speech), derivational connections (families of words), and semantic relationships.

These attributes of content words are not, however, typical of all words in all languages.

In addition to simple content words, there are other types of words. Words with a phonetic marker may be unstressed (conjunctions, as in pered domom, “in front of the house”) and multistressed (compounds such as póslevoénnyi, “postwar”). Words with a morphological marker may be derived (khodok, “walker”) and compound (lunokhod, “lunar self-propelled vehicle”). The meaning of compound words of this type is often determined by the meaning of the constituent parts. Conjunctions, which have neither phonetic independence nor an autonomous nominative function, have both semantic and grammatical markers. The different structural types of linguistic units—the morpheme, conjunction, simple content word, derived or compound word, and word group—are connected by transitional elements and often shift from one category to another.

Since different types of words exist, when one seeks to define what the word is one encounters complex problems concerning the word’s separability and identity. The formal and semantic definability of a word decreases in speech; its stress and phonetic separability may be lost, as in French. A word’s grammatical form may be composed of separable elements that make it outwardly resemble a word group (analytic forms such as budu chitat’, “I will read”; chital by, “I would read”). Some forms of content words cannot constitute utterances independently. Changes in the meaning of a word in speech impede the word’s identification—the determination as to whether certain usages belong to a single word or whether they are homonyms.

The difficulties of determining common criteria for the word in all languages have led linguists to reconsider their views of the word as a structural and semantic linguistic unit. Some scholars define the word in a strictly formal way as the section of a spoken chain between pauses or of a text between spaces. Other scholars reject the word as a linguistic concept, taking as a unit for analysis the smallest meaningful unit of language —the morpheme, or moneme, in A. Martinet’s terminology. Still other scholars take as a unit for analysis the autonomous syntactic formation—C. Bally’s syntactic molecule, which unites a number of content words and conjunctions.

However, attempts to replace the word with another unit of language have not been successful. The scientific value of the concept of the word is that it unites features that are distributed among different aspects of linguistic analysis: phonic, semantic, and grammatical. The word is also a basic element of language for its speakers, for whom it has psychological reality. Although people speak in sentences, they remember and know language first and foremost through words, since words are the means by which human knowledge and experience are fixed in memory and are transmitted in speech.

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in algebra and mathematical logic, an expression—that is, an arbitrary finite (possibly empty) sequence of letters, or symbols, that make up the alphabet of a given logico-mathematical calculus. Sometimes the term “word” is used in a narrower sense as a synonym for the term “formula”—that is, an expression composed (possibly in accordance with special rules of formation) of only some of the letters in a given alphabet. This restriction in meaning, however, is not significant, since it can be easily circumvented by considering, besides the basic alphabet from whose letters the word is constructed, a larger alphabet that includes the basic alphabet and contains the necessary auxiliary symbols. An alternative method of circumvention is to introduce at the very beginning in the definition of “word” a rule of construction other than the simple concatenation, or juxtaposition, of letters.

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[wȯrd] (computer science) The fundamental unit of storage capacity for a digital computer, almost always considered to be more than eight bits in length. Also known as computer word.

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(storage)A fundamental unit of storage in a computer. Thesize of a word in a particular computer architecture is one ofits chief distinguishing characteristics.

The size of a word is usually the same as the width of thecomputer's data bus so it is possible to read or write aword in a single operation. An instruction is usually one ormore words long and a word can be used to hold a whole numberof characters. These days, this nearly always means a wholenumber of bytes (eight bits), most often 32 or 64 bits. Inthe past when six bit character sets were used, a word mightbe a multiple of six bits, e.g. 24 bits (four characters) inthe ICL 1900 series.

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(1) See Microsoft Word.

(2) The computer's internal processing unit. Word "size" refers to the amount of data a CPU's internal data registers can hold and process at one time. Modern desktop computers have 64-bit words. Computers embedded in appliances and consumer products have word sizes of 8, 16 or 32 bits. See bit and byte.

The larger the word, the faster the computer calculates and compares (processes). However, the speed increase also depends on the size of the data being calculated. Given the same clock rate, adding a 16-bit number will not be faster in a computer with 32-bit registers than one with 16 bits, but a 24-bit number will be. The 16-bit computer requires additional steps (16 bits first, then the remaining 8), whereas all 24 bits of the number can fit in the 32-bit register. See MHz.

x86 Architecture
In the x86 PC (Intel, AMD, etc.), although the architecture has long supported 32-bit and 64-bit registers, its native word size stems back to its 16-bit origins, and a "single" word is 16 bits. A "double" word is 32 bits.

Many Word Sizes
Since the advent of computers starting in the 1940s, machines have been designed with a variety of word sizes, including 10, 12, 20, 24, 36, 48 and 60 bits.

A 36-Bit Computer

These are 36-bit PDP computers from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). In 1971, they were used to send the first email over the Internet (see email for more detail). Both machines barely totaled 500K of memory. (Image courtesy of Dan Murphy, www.opost.com/dlm)

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noun term

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noun chat

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noun comment

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noun message

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noun promise

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noun command

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noun rumour

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noun remark

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noun text

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verb express

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phrase have words

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phrase in a word

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phrase the last word: final say

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phrase the last word: summation

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phrase the last word in something

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phrase word for word: verbatim

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phrase word for word: verbatim

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noun a sound or combination of sounds that symbolizes and communicates a meaning

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noun something said

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noun something communicated, as information

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noun a declaration that one will or will not do a certain thing

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noun an authoritative indication to be obeyed

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noun new information, especially about recent events and happenings

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noun idle, often sensational and groundless talk about others