Wordname詞源 1/wɜːd/

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  Scripture; the Bible.

  • In one of our first meetings, I explained to President Jiang that faith was a vital part of my life and that I studied the Word every day. I told him I planned to raise freedom of worship in our conversations. "I read the Bible," he replied, "but I don’t trust what it says."
  • Mad Prophet: Repent! Repent and restore your souls to glory before it is too late! This great station has fallen, and all within shall fall with it! Mad Prophet: For the blight that is humanity stains all within its path, and the only chance at redemption lies in the Word!
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  The creative word of God; Logos.

  • In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
  • And so the Word had breath, and wrought ⁠With human hands the creed of creeds ⁠In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought; […]

Wordname詞源 2/wɜːd/

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  computingengineeringmathematicsMicrosoft Word, word processor software developed by Microsoft.

  • You have to type that up in Word.

wordnoun詞源 1/wɜːd/

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  human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThe smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)

  • But every word, whether written or spoken, which urges the woman to antagonism against the man, every word which is written or spoken to try and make of her a hybrid, self-contained opponent of men, makes a rift in the lute to which the world looks for its sweetest music.
  • The word, whether written or spoken, does not look like or sound like its meaning — it does not resemble its signified. We only connect the two because we have learnt the code — language. Without such knowledge, 'Maggie' would just be a meaningless pattern of shapes or sounds.
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  human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThe smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)

  • Then all was silent save the voice of the high priest, whose words grew louder and louder, […]
  • Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
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  human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThe smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)

  • Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words.
  • The name was a confused gift of love from her father, who could not read the word but picked it out of the Bible for its visual shape, […]
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  human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThe smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)

  • “Ain’t! How often am I to tell you ain’t ain’t a word?”
  • Fisherwoman isn’t even a word. It’s not in the dictionary.
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  human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThe smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)

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  Something like such a unit of language:

  • In still another variation, the nonsense word is presented and the teacher asks, "What sound was in the beginning of the word?" "In the middle?" and so on. The child should always respond with the phoneme; he should not use letter labels.
  • All 15.5 million ‘words’ (or so–the exact length depends on the repeat sequences, which vary greatly) in the twenty-second chapter of the human autobiography have been read and written down in English letters: 47 million As, Cs, Gs and Ts.
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  communicationselectrical-engineeringengineeringSomething like such a unit of language:

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  computingengineeringmathematicsSomething like such a unit of language:

  • The size of a register in the MIPS architecture is 32 bits; groups of 32 bits occur so frequently that they are given the name word in the MIPS architecture.

wordverb詞源 1/wɜːd/

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  To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something).

  • strongly worded letter
  • I’m not sure how to word this letter to the council.
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  obsoleteTo flatter with words, to cajole.

  • He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not / be noble to myself.
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  To ply or overpower with words.

  • […] if one were to be worded to death, Italian is the fittest Language [for that task]
  • […] if a man were to be worded to death, or stoned to death by words, the High-Dutch were the fittest [language for that task].
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  rareTo conjure with a word.

  • Against him […] who could word heaven and earth out of nothing, and can when he pleases word them into nothing again.
  • "Postcolonialism" might well be another linguistic construct, desperately begging for a referent that will never show up, simply because it never existed on its own and was literally worded into existence by the very term that pretends to be born from it.
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  archaicTo speak, to use words; to converse, to discourse.

  • Thus wording timidly among the fierce: / "O Father, I am here the simplest voice, […]"

wordintj詞源 1/wɜːd/

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  slangTruth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement "My word is my bond."

  • "Yo, that movie was epic!" / "Word?" ("You speak the truth?") / "Word." ("I speak the truth.")
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  slangAn abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval.

  • "[…] Know what I'm sayin'?" / "Word!" the other man strongly agreed. "Let's do this — "
  • "[…] Not bad at all, man. Worth da wait, dawg. Word." / "You liked it?" I asked dumbly, stoned still, and feeling victorious. / "Yeah, man," said Oral B. "Word up. […]"

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• worth