Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
word . - noun informal An angry discussion.
- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
word .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun words making up the dialogue of a play
- noun the words that are spoken
- noun the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number
- noun an angry dispute
- noun language that is spoken or written
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Examples
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_The drift from God is a movement of events, a propulsion of vital experience, not a parade of words to be diverted by other words_.
The Necessity of Atheism David Marshall Brooks
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In (_a_) the application of _words_ is limited, or restricted, to the two words mentioned; in (_c_) _words_ is restricted to a certain kind.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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The child will then be able -- not to repeat the words only, for that is not the effect of this exercise, -- but to communicate the ideas in his _own words_; which, however, will generally be found to be the very same as in the book.
A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education James Gall
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_Ideas are never words_ nor are _words ever ideas_, but words become so
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In (_a_) the application of _words_ is limited, or restricted, to the two words mentioned; in (_c_) _words_ is restricted to a certain kind.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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But even this is not enough, where the child is dull, or where healthful mental exercise is required; and accordingly in that case, the teacher not only questions upon the clauses in connection with the other principal words, but he takes the _words_, of which the clauses are composed, and catechises the child upon them also.
A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education James Gall
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_The hyphen in initial words indicates the composition of the words_.
Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland
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In (_a_) the application of _words_ is limited, or restricted, to the two words mentioned; in (_c_) _words_ is restricted to a certain kind.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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Those who failed to interpret the words, or to extract the idea from them, reiterated the _words_ to themselves, and would perhaps be able to repeat the words again, but they do so in the same manner that a person reads or repeats words in an unknown tongue.
A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education James Gall
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Words that are read more forcibly than other words in a sentence are called _emphatic words_.
New National Fourth Reader J. Marshall Hawkes
oroboros commented on the word words
A different slant on words: here
January 23, 2007
gangerh commented on the word words
Words - things to kill time until our emotions render us inarticulate.
Thank you Arthur Somers Roche.
February 16, 2008
muamor commented on the word words
Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
Scene Two.
Shakespeare.
March 3, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word words
WeirdNet strikes again: word has it words can be written down too.
March 3, 2008
mollusque commented on the word words
Did anyone happen to notice what the 200,000th unique word was? It would have been nine before desensitized.
December 10, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word words
"A barren superfluity of words."
Sir Samuel Garth (1661-1719), The Dispensary
September 20, 2009
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word words
April 12, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word words
I much prefer seeing recently added words and lists immediately to the right of the most current Wordnik comments rather than favorited or trending words. I don't at all enjoy scrolling down to locate the recent additions.
December 1, 2011