word
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(wûrd) 
n.
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:
n.
- 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.
- Something said; an utterance, remark, or comment: May I say a word about that?
- Computer Science. A set of bits constituting the smallest unit of addressable memory.
- words Discourse or talk; speech: Actions speak louder than words.
- words Music. The text of a vocal composition; lyrics.
- An assurance or promise; sworn intention: She has kept her word.
- A command or direction; an order: gave the word to retreat.
- A verbal signal; a password or watchword.
- News: Any word on your promotion? See synonyms at news.
- Rumor: Word has it they're divorcing.
- words Hostile or angry remarks made back and forth.
- 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).
- Word
- See Logos (sense 2).
- The Scriptures; the Bible.
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.
- A favorable comment: She put in a good word for me.
- Favorable news.
- To be unable to describe or talk about.
- In short; in summary: In a word, the situation is serious.
- In precisely those words; exactly: hinted at impending indictments but did not say it in so many words.
- Speaking candidly and straightforwardly: In so many words, the weather has been beastly.
- Not conversational or loquacious; laconic: a person of few words.
- Displaying personal dependability: a woman of her 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.
- Indeed; really.
[Middle English, from Old English.]
informatics In telegraphy, etc., also in typing, 5 visible characters + 1 space character. In computers a word represents the amount of data stored, transferred, or such as one package, = 8 to 66 or even more bits, commonly between 16 and 48, and now usually taken to be 32 bits, even in a computer that moves data in other groupings.
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A popular word processing application sold both separately and as part of Microsoft’s popular office suite.
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Roget's Thesaurus:
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word
noun
- A sound or combination of sounds that symbolizes and communicates a meaning: expression, locution, term. See words.
- Something said: saying, statement, utterance. See words.
- Something communicated, as information: communication, message. See words.
- A declaration that one will or will not do a certain thing: assurance, covenant, engagement, guarantee, guaranty, pledge, plight2, promise, solemn word, vow, warrant, word of honor. See obligation.
- An authoritative indication to be obeyed: behest, bidding, charge, command, commandment, dictate, direction, directive, injunction, instruction (often used in plural), mandate, order. See over/under, words.
- New information, especially about recent events and happenings: advice (often used in plural), intelligence, news, tiding (often used in plural). Informal scoop. See knowledge/ignorance, words.
- Idle, often sensational and groundless talk about others: gossip, gossipry, hearsay, report, rumor, talebearing, tattle, tittle-tattle. Slang scuttlebutt. See words.
- A discussion, often heated, in which a difference of opinion is expressed. altercation, argument, bicker, clash, contention, controversy, debate, difficulty, disagreement, dispute, fight, polemic, quarrel, run-in, spat, squabble, tiff, wrangle. Informal hassle, rhubarb, tangle. See conflict/cooperation.
verb
- To convey in language or words of a particular form: couch, express, formulate, phrase, put. See words.
Idioms beginning with word:
words stick in one's throat
words to that effect
word for word
word of honor
word of mouth, by
words fail me
words of one syllable, in
word to the wise, a
See also all in a day's work; all work and no play; at work; busy work; dirty work; get down to (work); good works; gum up (the works); have one's work cut out; in the works; make short work of; many hands make light work; out of work; shoot the works; the works; turn (work) out all right.
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n
Definition: command
Antonyms: question
n
Definition: discussion
Antonyms: silence
n
Definition: promise
Antonyms: breach, break
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For other uses, see Word (disambiguation).
In language, a word is the smallest element that may be uttered in isolation with semantic or pragmatic content (with literal or practical meaning). This contrasts with a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of meaning but will not necessarily stand on its own. A word may consist of a single morpheme (for example: oh!, rock, red, quick, run, expect), or several (rocks, redness, quickly, running, unexpected), whereas a morpheme may not be able to stand on its own as a word (in the words just mentioned, these are -s, -ness, -ly, -ing, un-, -ed).
A complex word will typically include a root and one or more affixes (rock-s, red-ness, quick-ly, run-ning, un-expect-ed), or more than one root in a compound (black-board, rat-race). Words can be put together to build larger elements of language, such as phrases (a red rock), clauses (I threw a rock), and sentences (He threw a rock too but he missed).
The term word may refer to a spoken word or to a written word, or sometimes to the abstract concept behind either. Spoken words are made up of units of sound called phonemes, and written words of symbols called graphemes, such as the letters of the English alphabet.
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Further information: Lexeme and Lemma (morphology)
The ease or difficulty of deciphering a word depends on the language. Dictionaries categorize a language's lexicon (i.e., its vocabulary) into lemmas. These can be taken as an indication of what constitutes a "word" in the opinion of the writers of that language.
Semantic definition
Leonard Bloomfield introduced the concept of "Minimal Free Forms" in 1926. Words are thought of as the smallest meaningful unit of speech that can stand by themselves.[1] This correlates phonemes (units of sound) to lexemes (units of meaning). However, some written words are not minimal free forms, as they make no sense by themselves (for example, the and of).[2]
Some semanticists have proposed a theory of so-called semantic primitives or semantic primes, indefinable words representing fundamental concepts that are intuitively meaningful. According to this theory, semantic primes serve as the basis for describing the meaning, without circularity, of other words and their associated conceptual denotations.[3]
Features
In the Minimalist school of theoretical syntax, words (also called lexical items in the literature) are construed as "bundles" of linguistic features that are united into a structure with form and meaning.[4] For example, the word "bears" has semantic features (it denotes real-world objects, bears), category features (it is a noun), number features (it is plural and must agree with verbs, pronouns, and demonstratives in its domain), phonological features (it is pronounced a certain way), etc.
Word boundaries
The task of defining what constitutes a "word" involves determining where one word ends and another word begins—in other words, identifying word boundaries. There are several ways to determine where the word boundaries of spoken language should be placed:
- Potential pause: A speaker is told to repeat a given sentence slowly, allowing for pauses. The speaker will tend to insert pauses at the word boundaries. However, this method is not foolproof: the speaker could easily break up polysyllabic words, or fail to separate two or more closely related words.
- Indivisibility: A speaker is told to say a sentence out loud, and then is told to say the sentence again with extra words added to it. Thus, I have lived in this village for ten years might become My family and I have lived in this little village for about ten or so years. These extra words will tend to be added in the word boundaries of the original sentence. However, some languages have infixes, which are put inside a word. Similarly, some have separable affixes; in the German sentence "Ich komme gut zu Hause an", the verb ankommen is separated.
- Phonetic boundaries: Some languages have particular rules of pronunciation that make it easy to spot where a word boundary should be. For example, in a language that regularly stresses the last syllable of a word, a word boundary is likely to fall after each stressed syllable. Another example can be seen in a language that has vowel harmony (like Turkish):[5] the vowels within a given word share the same quality, so a word boundary is likely to occur whenever the vowel quality changes. Nevertheless, not all languages have such convenient phonetic rules, and even those that do present the occasional exceptions.
- Orthographic boundaries: See below.
Orthography
In languages with a literary tradition, there is interrelation between orthography and the question of what is considered a single word. Word separators (typically spaces) are common in modern orthography of languages using alphabetic scripts, but these are (excepting isolated precedents) a relatively modern development (see also history of writing).
In English orthography, compound expressions may contain spaces. Examples are ice cream, air raid shelter, get up, and these must thus be considered as more than one word. (Ice, cream, air etc. indisputably exist as free forms, the case of get is less clear.) In contrast, brownstone is spelt as a single word and would thus be considered as such for most purposes even though brown and stone are free forms.
Vietnamese orthography, although using the Latin alphabet, delimits monosyllabic morphemes, not words. East Asian orthography (languages using CJK characters) also tend to delimit syllables (in the case of Chinese characters) or morae (in the case of kana) rather than full words. Hangul the Korean alphabet, delimits both syllables and words, by grouping graphemes into syllabic blocks but also adds spaces between words. Conversely, synthetic languages often combine many lexical morphemes into single words, making it difficult to boil them down to the traditional sense of words found more easily in analytic languages; this is especially difficult for polysynthetic languages, such as Inuktitut and Ubykh, where entire sentences may consist of a single word.
Morphology
Main article: Morphology (linguistics)
Further information: Inflection
In synthetic languages, a single word stem (for example, love) may have a number of different forms (for example, loves, loving, and loved). However for some purposes these are not usually considered to be different words, but rather different forms of the same word. In these languages, words may be considered to be constructed from a number of morphemes. In Indo-European languages in particular, the morphemes distinguished are
Thus, the Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dhom would be analyzed as consisting of
- *wr̥-, the zero grade of the root *wer-
- a root-extension *-dh- (diachronically a suffix), resulting in a complex root *wr̥dh-
- The thematic suffix *-o-
- the neuter gender nominative or accusative singular desinence *-m.
Philosophy
Philosophers have found words objects of fascination since at least the 5th century BC, with the foundation of the philosophy of language. Plato analyzed words in terms of their origins and the sounds making them up, concluding that there was some connection between sound and meaning, though words change a great deal over time. John Locke wrote that the use of words "is to be sensible marks of ideas", though they are chosen "not by any natural connexion that there is between particular articulate sounds and certain ideas, for then there would be but one language amongst all men; but by a voluntary imposition, whereby such a word is made arbitrarily the mark of such an idea".[6] Wittgenstein's thought transitioned from a word as representation of meaning to "the meaning of a word is its use in the language."[7]
Classes
Main article: Lexical category
Grammar classifies a language's lexicon into several groups of words. The basic bipartite division possible for virtually every natural language is that of nouns vs. verbs.
The classification into such classes is in the tradition of Dionysius Thrax, who distinguished eight categories: noun, verb, adjective, pronoun, preposition, adverb, conjunction and interjection.
In Indian grammatical tradition, Pāṇini introduced a similar fundamental classification into a nominal (nāma, suP) and a verbal (ākhyāta, tiN) class, based on the set of desinences taken by the word.
See also
Notes
- ^ Katamba 11
- ^ Fleming 77
- ^ Wierzbicka 1996; Goddard 2002
- ^ Adger (2003), pp. 36–7.
- ^ Bauer 9
- ^ "Locke ECHU BOOK III Chapter II Of the Signification of Words". Rbjones.com. http://www.rbjones.com/rbjpub/philos/classics/locke/ctb3c02.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
- ^ "Ludwig Wittgenstein (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)". Plato.stanford.edu. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
References
- Adger, David (2003). Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-924370-0.
- Barton, David (1994). Literacy: An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language. Blackwell Publishing. p. 96.
- Bauer, Laurie (1983). English Word-formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-28492-9.
- Brown, Keith R. (Ed.) (2005) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed.). Elsevier. 14 vols.
- Crystal, David (1995). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (1 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-40179-8.
- Fleming, Michael et al. (2001). Meeting the Standards in Secondary English: A Guide to the ITT NC. Routledge. p. 77. ISBN 0-415-23377-1.
- Goddard, Cliff (2002). "The search for the shared semantic core of all languages". In Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka. Meaning and Universal Grammar: Theory and Empirical Findings. Volume I. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 5–40. http://www.une.edu.au/lcl/nsm/pdf/Goddard_Ch1_2002.pdf
- Katamba, Francis (2005). English Words: Structure, History, Usage. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-29893-8.
- Plag, Ingo (2003). Word-formation in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-52563-2.
- Simpson, J.A. and E.S.C. Weiner, ed. (1989). Oxford English Dictionary (2 ed.). Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-861186-2.
- Wierzbicka, Anna (1996). Semantics: Primes and Universals. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-870002-4.
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- What Is a Word? – a working paper by Larry Trask (see [1] for attribution), Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Sussex.
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Word
Dansk (Danish)
n. - ord, besked, løfte, ordre, feltråb
v. tr. - formulere, affatte
idioms:
- at a word følge ordre
- break one's word bryde sit ord
- from the word go på startordet
- have a word få et ord
- keep one's word holde sit ord
- of few words af få ord
- of one's word af sit ord
- pass the word sprede rygtet
- put in a (good) word for lægge et (godt) ord ind for
- put words into someone's mouth lægge ord i en andens mund
- say the word sige ordet
- take a person's word for it tage en persons ord for gode varer
- take someone at their word tage en person på ordet, tro en på ordet
- Upon my word minsandten, på ære, nu har jeg aldrig kendt mage
- word blindness ordblindhed
- word class ordklasse
- word for word ord for ord
- word of honour æresord
- word of mouth rygte
- word perfect kunne noget på fingrene
- word processing ordbearbejdning, [comp.] tekstbehandling
- word processor tekstbehandlingsprogram
- word wrap tekstombrydning
Nederlands (Dutch)
woord, nieuws, opmerking, belofte, verwoorden zich aan de afspraak houden
Français (French)
n. - mot, nouvelles, nouvelle, parole, rumeur, maître mot, ordre, (Relig, gén) bonne parole, (Comput) mot, paroles (npl), (Théât, Mus) texte (npl)
v. tr. - formuler (une lettre, une réponse)
idioms:
- at a word immédiatement, tout de suite
- break one's word ne pas tenir sa parole
- from the word go dès le départ
- have a word parler (un peu) à qn (à propos de qch), en toucher deux mots à (qn)
- in a word en un mot
- keep one's word tenir ses promesses
- of few words (personne) peu loquace
- of one's word (être qn) de parole
- put in a good word for glisser un mot en faveur de qn
- put in a word for glisser un mot pour
- put words into someone's mouth faire dire à qn des choses qu'il ne veut pas dire
- say the word avoir seulement un mot à dire pour
- take someone at their word prendre qn au mot
- take someone's word for it croire qn sur parole
- take the words out of someone's mouth (fig) avoir retiré de la bouche (un mot, une parole) (à qn)
- Upon my word ma parole (excl) (arch), parole d'honneur (excl)
- word blindness dyslexie
- word class (Ling) partie du discours
- word for word mot à mot
- word of honour parole d'honneur
- word of mouth verbal, verbalement, de vive voix
- word perfect (connaître) son texte sur le bout des doigts, (être) parfait (une récitation)
- word processing (Comput) traitement de texte
- word processor traitement de texte, (Comput) machine à traitement de texte
- word up formuler
- word wrap (Comput) retour à la ligne automatique
Deutsch (German)
n. - Wort, Vokabel, Nachricht, Text, Kommando, Parole
v. - formulieren
idioms:
- at a word sofort
- break one's word sein Wort brechen
- from the word go von Anfang an
- have a word ein Gespräch führen
- in a word mit einem Wort
- keep one's word sein Wort halten
- of few words von wenigen Worten
- of one's word von Wort
- put in a good word for ein gutes Wort einlegen für
- put in a word for [jmdm] jmdn./etw. empfehlen, sich für jmdn./etw. verwenden
- put words into someone's mouth jmdm. Worte in den Mund legen
- say the word sag nur ein Wort
- take someone at their word jmdn. beim Wort nehmen
- take someone's word for it sich auf jmdn. od. jmds. Wort[e] verlassen
- take the words out of someone's mouth jmdm. das Wort aus dem Munde nehmen
- Upon my word auf mein Wort, meiner Treu!
- word blindness Wortblindheit
- word class Redeteil, Wortklasse
- word for word Wort für Wort
- word of honour Ehrenwort
- word of mouth mündliche Mitteilung
- word perfect perfekt vorgetragen, perfekt beherrschend
- word processing Textverarbeitung
- word processor Textverarbeitungssystem
- word up jdn. warnen
- word wrap Text verpacken
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - λέξη, (έναρθρος) λόγος, είδηση, μήνυμα, παραγγελία, λόγος, υπόσχεση, παρατήρηση, είδηση, ειδοποίηση, μήνυμα, νέο, (αναγνωριστικό) σύνθημα
v. - διατυπώνω, εκφράζω, συντάσσω
idioms:
- at a word μόλις το ζητήσετε
- break one's word αθετώ το λόγο μου
- from the word go από την πρώτη στιγμή
- have a word λέω δυο κουβέντες
- keep one's word τηρώ το λόγο μου
- of few words λιγόλογος
- of one's word που κρατά το λόγο του
- pass one's word δίνω το λόγο μου
- pass the word διαδίδω τα νέα, μεταφέρω τις ειδήσεις
- put in a (good) word for λέω έναν καλό λόγο για
- put words into someone's mouth βάζω λόγια στο στόμα κάποιου
- say the word δίνω εντολή, εκφράζω επιθυμία
- take a person's word for it πιστεύω, δέχομαι το λόγο κάποιου για κάτι
- take someone at their word βασίζομαι στο λόγο κάποιου
- Upon my word στο λόγο μου!
- word blindness (παθολ.) αλεξία, λεκτική τύφλωση
- word class ομάδα λέξεων, μέρος του λόγου
- word for word κατά λέξη, λέξη προς λέξη
- word of honour λόγος τιμής
- word of mouth προφορικά, στόμα με στόμα
- word order σειρά των λέξεων
- word perfect (για ρόλους κ.λπ.) τέλειας αποστήθισης ή απαγγελίας
- word processing (Η/Υ) επεξεργασία κειμένου
- word processor (Η/Υ) επεξεργαστής κειμένου
- word wrap (Η/Υ) αναδίπλωση γραμμών κειμένου
Italiano (Italian)
parola, formulare, voce, notizie
idioms:
- be as good as one's word mantenere la parola
- break one's word rompere la parola data
- from the word go fin dall'inizio
- hang on someone's every word prestare grande attenzione, pendere dalle labbra di qualcuno
- have a word conversare
- keep one's word mantenere la parola
- of few words di poche parole
- of one's word affidabile, di parola
- pass the word far sapere, passare parola
- play on words gioco di parole
- put in a (good) word for mettere una buona parola per
- put words into someone's mouth mettere le parole in bocca a qualcuno
- say the word dare il via
- take a person at his/her word prendere sul serio, prendere qualcuno sulla parola
- take a person's word for it credere ciecamente a
- Upon my word! Parola d'onore!
- word blindness alessia
- word class classe di parole
- word of mouth sentito dire
- word perfect perfetto
- word processing trattamento testi
- word processor elaboratore testi
Português (Portuguese)
n. - palavra (f), conversa (f), informação (f)
v. - exprimir
idioms:
- be as good as one's word pode-se acreditar nele
- break one's word quebrar uma promessa
- from the word go a partir do início
- have a word falar
- keep one's word manter a palavra
- of few words de poucas palavras
- of one's word exibindo dependência pessoal
- pass the word passar a palavra
- play on words fazer jogo de palavras
- put in a (good) word for exprimir-se favoravelmente
- put words into someone's mouth inventar algo sobre uma outra pessoa
- say the word dar as ordens, dar o sinal para avançar
- take a person at his/her word considerar ao pé da letra
- take a person's word for it acreditar na pessoa
- Upon my word! ao meu comando!
- word blindness dislexia (f) (Med.)
- word class classe (Gram.)
- word of mouth verbal
- word perfect conhecer
- word processing processamento de texto
- word processor processador de texto (m)
Русский (Russian)
слово, разговор, размолвка, совет, вести, сообщение, обещание, рекомендация, приказ, пароль, пословица, слух, текст (песни, роли), либретто
idioms:
- be as good as one's word держать слово
- break one's word нарушить слово
- from the word go с самого начала, с начала до конца, основательно
- hang on someone's every word ловить чьи-л. слова, внимательно прислушиваться к кому-л.
- have a word сказать несколько слов, побеседовать
- keep one's word сдержать свое слово, обещание
- of few words немногословный
- of one's word человек слова
- pass the word передавать приказание
- play on words каламбур, игра слов, каламбурить
- put in a (good) word for хвалить кого-л., замолвить за кого-л. словечко
- put words into someone's mouth навязать кому-л. свои слова, подсказывать кому-л. что надо говорить, приписывать кому-л. то, что он не говорил
- say the word высказать желание, приказать
- take a person at his/her word поверить кому-л. на слово
- take a person's word for it уверяю вас, поверьте кому-л.
- Upon my word! честное слово!
- word blindness потеря способности читать, алексия
- word class часть речи
- word of mouth устно, на словах
- word perfect знающий наизусть
- word processing электронная обработка текста
- word processor устройство для электронной обработки текста, "электронный редактор"
Español (Spanish)
n. - palabra, vocablo, término, noticia, recado, santo y seña
v. tr. - expresar, redactar, formular, enunciar
idioms:
- at a word respuesta inmediata
- break one's word faltar a su palabra
- from the word go desde el primer momento
- have a word hablar de algo con alguien, tener algo que decir
- in a word en una palabra, en resumidas cuentas
- keep one's word cumplir su palabra
- of few words lacónico, de pocas palabras
- of one's word de entera confianza
- put in a good word for recomendar a alguien, decir unas palabras en favor de alguien, interceder, hablar a favor de
- put in a word for recomendar a alguien, decir unas palabras en favor de alguien, interceder, hablar a favor de
- put words into someone's mouth atribuirle a alguien algo que no dijo
- say the word dar su aprobación
- take someone at their word tomarles la palabra
- take someone's word for it fiarse de la palabra de alguien
- take the words out of someone's mouth quitarle a alguien las palabras de la boca
- Upon my word ¡válgame Dios!, por mi palabra!
- word blindness alexia, incapacidad de identificar palabras escritas o impresas a causa de un defecto cerebral
- word class categoría gramatical de las palabras
- word for word palabra por palabra
- word of honour palabra de honor
- word of mouth comunicado verbalmente, oral
- word perfect saber de memoria (su papel)
- word processing procesamiento o tratamiento de textos
- word processor procesador de textos
- word up ponerlo en palabras, darle forma (a una idea) con palabras
- word wrap escritura continua
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - ord, yttrande, löfte, meddelande, lösen, motto, kommando
v. - uttrycka
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
字, 消息, 话, 词, 用言词表达
idioms:
- at a word 立即, 简而言之
- break one's word 失信
- from the word go 从一开始
- have a word 说悄悄话, 对...说, 尤指私下的或秘密的事
- keep one's word 守信
- of few words 沉默寡言
- of one's word 守信的
- pass the word 传话
- put in a (good) word for 为...美言几句
- put words into someone's mouth 教某人如何讲
- say the word 吩咐一下
- take a person's word for it 相信某人的话
- take someone at their word 相信某人的话
- Upon my word 的确
- word blindness 失读症, 阅读困难
- word class 词类, 字类
- word for word 逐字地
- word of honour 名誉
- word of mouth 口头的, 口述的
- word perfect 熟记台词的
- word processing 字处理
- word processor 文字处理软件
- word wrap 自动换行
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 字, 消息, 話, 詞
v. tr. - 用言詞表達
idioms:
- at a word 立即, 簡而言之
- break one's word 失信
- from the word go 從一開始
- have a word 說悄悄話, 對...說, 尤指私下的或祕密的事
- keep one's word 守信
- of few words 沉默寡言
- of one's word 守信的
- pass the word 傳話
- put in a (good) word for 為...美言幾句
- put words into someone's mouth 教某人如何講
- say the word 吩咐一下
- take a person's word for it 相信某人的話
- take someone at their word 相信某人的話
- Upon my word 的確
- word blindness 失讀症, 閱讀困難
- word class 詞類, 字類
- word for word 逐字地
- word of honour 名譽
- word of mouth 口頭的, 口述的
- word perfect 熟記臺詞的
- word processing 字處理
- word processor 文書處理軟體
- word wrap 自動換行
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 말, 이야기, 약속
v. tr. - 말로 나타내다
idioms:
- at a word 일언지하에, 곧
- break one's word 약속을 깨뜨리다, 약속을 어기다
- have a word 간단히 이야기 하다
- keep one's word 약속을 지키다
- put in a (good) word for ~을 추천하다, ~을 칭찬하다, ~을 조언하다
- put words into someone's mouth 아무에게 말할 것을 가르치다, 아무의 입을 빌려 말하게 하다
- take a person's word for it 아무의 말을 믿다
- take someone at their word 아무의 말을 곧이 듣다, 말하는 대로 믿다
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 語, 単語, 言葉, 話, 約束, 保証, 知らせ, 口論, 指示, 聖書
v. - ことばで表す
idioms:
- from the word go 初めから
- have a word 話がある
- mum's the word 黙っているんだよ
- of one's word 約束を守る人
- printed word 印刷文字
- put in a (good) word for 口添えする
- take a person's word for it 真に受ける
- word blindness 言語盲
- word class 語類, 品詞
- word of mouth 口頭
- word order 語順
- word perfect 丸暗記する
- word processing 文書処理
- word processor ワープロ, ワードプロセッサー
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) كلمه, لفظه, عبارة, نص, رساله, وعد (فعل) يتكلم, يقول, ينص, يلفظ
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - מילה, דבר, דיבור, ידיעה, הודעה, סיסמה, פקודה, דברה, הבטחה, אמירה, יחידת אחסון נתונים בסיסית במחשב
v. tr. - ניסח, סגנן, ביטא במלים
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