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Definition: Word |
WordNoun1. 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". 2. A brief statement; "he didn't say a word about it". 3. New information about specific and timely events; "they awaited news of the outcome". 4. The divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus). 5. A promise; "he gave his word". 6. A secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group; "he forgot the password". 7. An exchange of views on some topic; "we had a good discussion"; "we had a word or two about it". 8. The sacred writings of the Christian religion; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen". 9. A verbal command for action; "when I give the word, charge!". 10. : a word is a string of bits stored in computer memory; "large computers use words up to 64 bits long". Verb1. Put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "word" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Word |
19th Century Satire | Something you must keep after giving it to another. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Aerospace | In electronic computers, an ordered set of characters which is the normal unit in which information may be stored, transmitted, or operated upon within a computer. (references) |
Literature | Word A man of his word. One whose word may be depended on; trustworthy. As good as his word. In French, "Un homme de parole. " One who keeps his word. By word of mouth. Orally. As "he took it down by word of mouth" (as it was spoken by the speaker). I take you at your word. In French, "Je vous prend au mot. " I will act in reliance of what you tell me. Pray, make no words about it. In French, "N'en dites mot. " Don't mention it; make no fuss about it. Speak a good word for me. In French, "Dites un mot en ma faveur. " To pass one's word. In French, "Donner sa parole. " To promise to do something required. Upon my word. Assuredly; by my troth. "Upon my word, you answer ... discreetly." Jane Austen. Upon my word and honour! A strong affirmation of the speaker as to the truth of what he has asserted. Word (The). The second person of the Christian Trinity. (John i. 1.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang | Verb. Source: "Word" is already a word, but the meaning has been modified into having another meaning. Definition: To agree or believe in what a person is saying. Context: Casual conversation used between the AKA's. Social Source: AKA'S (Aoistair, Kenny, and Amon) . Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
| Introduction. Source: Derived from an early eighties sitcom "Different Strokes". Definition: Hello. How are You. Context: An introduction. An opening to a conversation. A greeting. Social Source: Artists. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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A computer word is a measurement of the size of the "natural" amount of computer memory a particular computer uses. For instance, many early computers used 36 bits in a word, that is, the computer would read and write 36 bits at a time. This number was based on the then-common need to store decimal numbers efficiently, and it was common to use 6-bit binary coded decimal numbers for this task. A 36-bit machine would handle 6 of these digits at a time, and lower cost machines would typically use 12, 18 or 24 bit words instead.Today the 6-bit digit has largely disappeared, and the basic unit for computer words is 8-bits, or a byte. This change occurred when computers became more commonly used for text processing, which required 7 or 8 bits to store an ASCII character. The first machine to widely introduce the 8-bit multiple for words was the IBM 360 in the 1960s, and it quickly took over the entire market.
Today the term "word" is rarely used, and instead we simply refer to the number of bits. For instance most common CPUs today use a 32-bit word, but we refer to them as "32-bit processors".
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Computer word."
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Maori language is the language of the Maori people of New Zealand. It is an East Polynesian Austronesian language closely related to Samoan, Tongan and Hawai'ian.
Te reo Maori is the literal Maori translation of 'the Maori language'. The shortened term te reo is sometimes used in New Zealand English speech to refer to Maori. Even though te reo literally means just 'the language' it is invariably understood to refer to the Maori language. In Maori speech the language is often referred to as te reo rangatira, the language of chiefs.
Maori is still in daily use among some Maori people. Together with English, it is an official language of New Zealand and may be used, as of right, in parliament and courts of law, although when used in these circumstances it is customary to ensure translators are available or provide a translation into English.
The Maori Language Commission is a New Zealand government commission that has been established to support and promote Maori as a living language and as an ordinary means of communication.
Prior to the arrival of missionaries in New Zealand, Maori was an oral language only. It was recorded in a regular and scientific manner by the missionary linguists and is spelled phonetically with one letter symbol for each sound. All syllables end in a vowel or consist of a vowel alone. The nearest sounding English language letters were used to represent the Maori language sounds. Although the phonetic match is not exact, an unfamiliar Maori word can normally be competently and understandably rendered by any English speaker, at first encounter, by following the general rule.
For example:
Attempts to pronounce Maori words by visitors to New Zealand who have not mastered this simple rule are often met with blank looks, total lack of understanding, expressions of pain or howls of laughter or derision once the improperly pronounced word is understood. Unfortunately it is a frequent habit of New Zealanders to accept such mispronunciations without correction or drawing attention to the error.
- Maori => ma o ri
- Whanganui => wha nga nu i
- Paraparaumu => pa ra pa ra u mu, (though it has been informally anglicised as pa ra par ram)
- Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu => Ta u ma ta wha ka ta ngi ha nga ko a u a u o ta ma te a tu ri pu ka ka pi ki ma u nga ho ro nu ku po ka i whe nu a ki ta na ta hu (Yes it is a real Maori word!)
The only weakness with the phonetic spelling system is that long vowel sounds were not easily represented. Modifications to the early records saw various symbols such as dots or accentation marks being placed over the vowel letters, or the letter being repeated, to represent a long vowel sound. Recently the Maori Language Commission has recommended that a macron or bar be placed above long vowels in words.
This means that the word Maori is more correctly shown as Māori. However, the "a" with the macron may display as a square on some web browsers. The Maori Language Commission provides an appropriate Unicode character set to assist with such problems (see macron).
a but ā father e pen ē pair i bit ī beet o fort ō store u put ū boot Adjacent vowels are run together as a diphthong. For example, "kai" (food) rhymes with "high".
The consonants are h, k, m, n, ng, p, r, t, w and wh, and are mostly pronounced as in English, with these exceptions:
- The combination "wh" should be pronounced either with a distinct "h" as in "which", or as an aspirated "f". English speakers usually use a simple "f", or sometimes "w" at the start of a word.
- The "r" is pronounced very much like a "d"; the town Kerikeri could just as easily be pronounced "Keddy Keddy". English speakers may pronounce it slightly rolled, but not trilled.
- The combination "ng" is always pronounced as a single sound, much as in "singer", and never as in "finger" or "manger". Correct pronunciation is with the middle of the tongue against the back of the hard palate. English speakers often use a simple "n" at the start of a word.
Correspondences
Here are some Maori~Hawai'ian sound correspondences1, using SAMPA representation:
Maori Hawai'ian Example(s) /t/ /k/ Tangata Maori ~ Kanaka Maoli ; te Atua ~ ke Akua /N/ /n/ /r/ /l/ aroha ~ aloha /k/ /?/ 1. See the comparative method of linguistics.
External links
- Ethnologue report for Maori
- Maori Language Commission (for definitive standards)
- English and Maori Word Translator from the Knowledge Engineering Laboratory of the University of Otago
- Online edition of the Ngata Māori-English English-Māori Dictionary from Learning Media.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Maori language."
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Microsoft Word is a word processor program from Microsoft. It was originally written for IBM PC computers running MS-DOS in 1983. Later versions were created for the Apple Macintosh (1984) and Microsoft Windows (1989), and it became part of the Microsoft Office suite.
Word was the first popular word processor for the IBM PC that used a graphic display mode to show typeface markups such as bold and italics directly on the screen while editing (WYSIWYG). Previous word processors, such as WordStar and WordPerfect, used simple text-only display with markup codes on the screen or sometimes, at the most, alternate colors.
Like other Microsoft Office applications, it can be highly customised using a built-in macro language (originally WordBasic, but changed to Visual Basic for Applications as of Word 97). However, this capability can also be used to embed viruses in documents, as was demonstrated by the Melissa worm. Because of this, users having Microsoft Word installed should refrain from having it configured to open Microsoft Word documents received -- by email or otherwise -- from untrusted sources. In this case also, a minimum precaution is to have anti-virus software installed in order to avoid being infected by such a virus or acting as a source of infection. The first virus known to affect Microsoft Word documents was called the Concept virus, and it first appeared on a CD that was published by Microsoft.
Microsoft Word is the dominant word processor in current use, making Word's proprietary file format the de facto standard which competing products must support to interoperate in an office environment. See the article word processor for a list of other word processors.
Later versions of Word have more capabilities than just word processing. The Drawing tool allows simple desktop publishing operations such as adding graphics to documents although Microsoft Publisher is obviously better at these tasks. Word also comes with rudimentary drawing tools which allow the drawing of simple diagrams or business graphics. See How to draw a diagram with Microsoft Word for a step-by-step tutorial on how to use the drawing tools to produce simple diagrams.
Versions for Microsoft Windows include:
Versions for Apple Macintosh include:
- Word for Windows
- Word 2 for Windows
- Word 6 for Windows (renumbered "6" to bring Windows version numbering in line with that of DOS & Macintosh versions)
- Word 95, also known as Word 7
- Word 97, also known as Word 8
- Word 2000, also known as Word 9
- Word 2002, also known as Word 10 but often referred to as Word XP
- Word 2003, also known as Word 11
- Word 2004, also known as Word 12
- Word 5
- Word 6
- Word 98
- Word 2001, the last version compatible with Mac OS 9
- Word v.X, the first version for Mac OS X
External link
- Microsoft's Word site
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Microsoft Word."
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simple:WordIn the linguistic sense, a word is a unit of speech or writing that symbolizes or communicates a meaning. A word may consist of one or more morphemes.
For information on how and the extent to which word boundaries have been indicated in orthography, see Interword separation.
To see how the capitalization of words works, go to: Capitalization
In computing, a word is an integral data type, that is usually (but not always) equal to the size of addresses used by the CPU to access the RAM (that is, pointers). Due to the popularity of the early Intel x86 processors (which were put inside IBM PCs), a word came to mean 2 bytes (16 bits), even though the Intel 80386 and higher use 4 byte addresses (see x86).
Microsoft Word is a word processor produced by Microsoft.
In the Christian religion, the Word of God is the second person of the Holy Trinity, Jesus Christ. Word, in this sense, is a translation of the Greek logos which more broadly means reason, principle, standard, logic. Logos also has parallels to the eastern concepts of Tao and dharma.
In urban slang, "word" is an exclamation indicating deep and complete agreement.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Word."
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A word processor is computer software used to compose, format, edit and print documents. Word processing is one of the earliest applications for office productivity and the personal computer. Although early word processors used tag-based markup for document formatting, most modern word processors take advantage of a graphical user interface to provide WYSIWYG editing, possibly as a front-end to a tag-based system. However for specialised text processing applications systems like TeX and derivatives are used.The 'word processing' typically refers to text manipulation functions such as automatic generation of
Page number and footnote information is extremely hard to maintain without a word processor because addition or deleting of text can affect pagination i.e. page numbers can change in each edition. Other word processing functions include spelling and grammar checking.
- batch mailing using a form letter template and an address database (aka mail merging),
- index of keywords and their page numbers,
- table of contents with section titles and their page numbers,
- table of figures with caption titles and their page numbers,
- 'see also' cross referencing with page numbers.
Word processors can be distinguished from several other, related forms of software:
Text editor programs were the precursors of word processors. While offering facilities for composing and editing text, they do not offer direct support for document formatting, but batch document processing systems such as LaTeX and programs that implement the paged-media extensions to HTML and CSS fill this gap. Text editors are now used mainly by programmers and web site designers for creating and modifying computer programs, and by computer system administrators for creating and editing configuration files.
Desktop publishing programs, meanwhile, were specifically designed to allow elaborate layout for publication, but offer only limited support for editing. Typically, desktop publishing programs allow users to import text that they have written using a text editor or word processor.
The word processor has become a central component of the office applications suite and is increasingly only available in this form, rather than as a standalone program.
Origin of word processing
The term word processing was devised by IBM in the 1960s, and originally encompassed all business equipment—including manually operated typewriters—that was concerned with the handling of text, as opposed to data. Electromechanical paper-tape-based equipment such as the Friden Flexowriter had long been available; the Flexowriter allowed for operations such as repetitive typing of form letters (with a pause for the operator to manually type in the variable information). In the sixties it began to be feasible to apply the technology developed for electronic computers to office automation tasks. IBM's Mag-Card Selectric was an early device of this kind. It allowed editing, simple revision, and repetitive typing, with a one-line display for editing single lines.
In the early 1970s Lexitron and Vydec introduced pioneering word-processing systems with CRT screen editing, but the real breakthrough occurred in 1976 with the introduction of a CRT-based system by Wang Laboratories. This was a true office machine, affordable by organizations such as medium-sized law firms. It was easily learned and operated by secretarial staff.
The Wang word processor displayed text two-dimensionally on a CRT screen, and incorporated virtually every fundamental characteristic of word processors as we know them today. The phrase "word processor" rapidly came to refer to CRT-based machines similar to Wang's. Numerous machines of this kind emerged, typically marketed by traditional office equipment companies such as IBM, Lanier, CPT, and NBI. These all, of course, were specialized, dedicated, proprietary systems. Cheap general-purpose computers were still the domain of hobbyists.
With the rise of personal computers, software-based word processors running on general-purpose commodity hardware gradually displaced dedicated word processors, and the term came to refer to software rather than hardware. Early word-processing software was ludicrously clumsy in comparison to dedicated word processors; for example, it required users to memorize semi-mnemonic key combinations rather than pressing keys labelled "copy" or "bold." The cost differences were compelling, however, and personal computers and word processing software soon became serious competition for the dedicated machines.
The late 1980s, saw the advent of laser printers, graphic user interfaces (pioneered by the Xerox Alto and Gypsy word processor), and a "typographic" approach to word processing (WYSIWYG displays with multiple fonts). These were popularized by Microsoft Word on the IBM PC in 1983, and MacWrite on the Apple Macintosh in 1984; these were probably the first true WYSIWYG word processors to become known to a large group of users. Dedicated word processors became museum pieces.
Word processing programs
Historically important programs
Programs still manufactured and in use
- TJ-2 One candidate for "first word processor," (command-based, not WYSIWYG); in use in 1963
- Bravo_(software), first bitmap-based multifont WYSIWYG word processor, completed at Xerox PARC by Charles Simonyi and colleagues in 1974
- Gypsy_(software), 1975, follow-on to Bravo, by Larry Tesler and colleagues; graphic user interface, cut-and-paste modeless editing
- IBM DisplayWrite
- Xerox Document Editor
- MacWrite
- MultiMate
- WordStar
- XyWrite
- EasyWriter
- MindWrite
- AbiWord, free
- AppleWorks, contains word processor unit derived from MacWrite II
- Framework
- KWord, free (GPL)
- Microsoft Word, commercial
- WordPerfect, commercial
- Word Pro
- OpenOffice Writer, free
- Adobe FrameMaker, commercial (also capable of functioning as desktop publishing software)
- Texmacs
- LyX
- TeX
- Vi
- Emacs
- Nisus Writer Express, commercial software for Mac OS X
Related articles
- Typography
- Wang Laboratories
- Typesetting
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Word processor."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| WOM | English | Word Of Mouth Nel linguaggio del marketing è quel tipo di pubblicità che inconsapevolmente fanno i consumatori quando dicono a paren-ti e amici di essere soddisfatti di un certo prodotto. | Abbreviation, Business |
| WOM | Italian | Passaparola(Word Of Mouth)Nel linguaggio del marketing è quel tipo di pubblicità che inconsapevolmente fanno i consumatori quando dicono a paren-ti e amici di essere soddisfatti di un certo prodotto. | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: WordSynonyms: countersign (n), discussion (n), give-and-take (n), intelligence (n), news (n), parole (n), password (n), tidings (n), watchword (n), word of honor (n), articulate (v), formulate (v), phrase (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: by-word (meteorology & standards). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affirmation | Noun: affirmance, affirmation; statement, allegation, assertion, predication, declaration, word, averment; confirmation. |
Command | Dictation; dictate, mandate; caveat, decree, senatus consultum; precept; prescript, rescript; writ, ordination, bull, ex cathedra pronouncement, edict, decretal, dispensation, prescription, brevet, placit, ukase, ukaz, firman, hatti-sherif, warrant, passport, mittimus, mandamus, summons, subpoena, nisi prius, interpellation, citation; word, word of command; mot d'ordre; bugle call, trumpet call; beat of drum, tattoo; order of the day; enactment; (law); plebiscite; (choice). |
Information | Bit, byte, word, doubleword, quad word, paragraph, segment. |
Maxim | Noun: maxim, aphorism; apothegm, apophthegm; dictum, saying, adage, saw, proverb; sentence, mot, motto, word, byword, moral, phylactery, protasis. |
Phrase | Verb: express, phrase; word, word it; give words to, give expression to; voice; arrange in words, clothe in words, put into words, express by words; couch in terms; find words to express; speak by the card; call, denominate, designate, dub. |
Promise | Noun: promise, undertaking, word, troth, plight, pledge, parole, word of honor, vow; oath; (affirmation); profession, assurance, warranty, guarantee, insurance, obligation; contract; stipulation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | That word gives me a pain (Notorious; writing credit: Ben Hecht) I'll tell you what, you can get a good look at a t-bone by sticking your head up a bull's ass, but I'd rather take the butcher's word for it. (Tommy Boy; writing credit: Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner.) The point is that this is a very odd thing, supernatural, for lack of a better word. It raises all sorts of philosophical questions about the nature of self, about the existence of the soul (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) Cruel, but good word use. (The Lost World: Jurassic Park; writing credit: David Koepp) I bring word from Lord Elrond of Rivendell (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) | |
Lyrics | A dirty word ("Smells Like Teen Spirit"; performing artist: Nirvana) We can't even think of a word that rhymes (School's Out; performing artist: Alice Cooper) Though your Word contained the plan ("El Shaddai"; performing artist: Amy Grant) Soon as you say the word, we'll be on our way (If I Could Go; performing artist: Angie Martinez) Changes are shifting outside the word (No More "I Love You's"; performing artist: Annie Lennox) | |
Clever | I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way. (references; author: Mark Twain) A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it. (references; author: Russian Proverb) A cruel word may wreck a life. (references; author: unknown) A timely word may level stress. (references; author: unknown) A loving word may heal and bless. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Love Is a Four Letter Word (1973) The New Word (1973) And the Word Was Made Flesh (1971) Work Is a 4-Letter Word (1968) Never a Cross Word (1968) | |
Song Titles | Bird's The Word, The (performing artist: The Rivingtons) Word of Love (performing artist: The Mamas and The Papas) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shown is the white button with a red rim, a red slash diagonally through the circle and the word "cancer". The button was produced by the National Coalition for Cancer Research. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | Go ahead! Spread the word! You can't get AIDS from Alaska's state bird! : AIDS Isn't Spread By Mosquitos. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Love is a fourteen letter word. familyplanning. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | A Navy Nurse offers a word of encouragement to a patient about to leave the ship for further treatment in the United States, October 1967. Repose was then operating in the South China Sea, a few miles south of the Seventeenth Parallel off the coast of the Republic of Vietnam. Photographed by JOC R.D. Moeser. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Photographed on 22 May 1953, as she was en route to Naval Air Station San Diego, California, following a deployment to Korean waters. Note crew paraded on the flight deck spelling out the word "HOME" and an arrow pointing over her bow. Aircraft on deck include 19 Grumman AF "Guardian" anti-submarine planes and a solitary Vought F4U "Corsair" fighter (parked amidships on the starboard side). Credit: NAVY. |  | Men holding sheet; cat with balloon tied to tail; man with sheet falling into wagon "contents;" man with wheelbarrow over word "contents". Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cherub lighting firecracker with torch as stars fly through word "Life". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Couldn't we call ourselves Daughters of something besides the American REVOLUTION? It's such a horrid word". Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Senate talking to man dressed in German military uniform and pointing at Woodrow Wilson who holds "final word," while the "House" just looks on. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Blondie. The eyes have a word for it / Chic Young. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Grifo" by Laura Giraudo Commentary: "I really don´t know how to speak this word in english.. so, im sorry.. You are welcome to my kitchen! :D." | "Everybody's heard about the b" by Igor Beres Commentary: "Bird bird bird, bird is the word Bird bird bird, bird is the word." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Man repeating the word "no" . | | Man speaking the word "almost" with a disappointed tone of voice. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Pope | At every word a reputation dies. |
Arthur Schopenhauer | A word too much always defeats its purpose. |
Benjamin Franklin | A word to the wise is enough. |
Horace | A word once uttered can never be recalled. |
Jean Racine | A single word often betrays a great design. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Every spoken word arouses our self-will. |
Lajos Kossuth | The unspoken word never does harm. |
Miguel de Cervantes | Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough. |
William Shakespeare | Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And if Josephus Acosta's word may be taken, he tells us, that in many parts of America there was no government at all. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In one word, it creates a world after its own image. (reference) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | To those new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | The word home made his father look on him with fresh complacency |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | I supplied the deficiency, not by interpolating a word here and a word there, but by writing in some consecutive lines |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | His nephew left the room without an angry word, notwithstanding |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Recognise me not, by word, by sign, by look |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Then, without saying a word, he fell on his knees, and even before the crowd had time to utter a cry, he was under the cart |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Not another word now. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | The urging of that word judgment hath bred a kind of remorse in me. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Well, I sent word to him. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Glubbdubdrib, as nearly as I can interpret the word, signifies the Island of Sorcerers or Magicians |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The plural form of the word is glomeruli. (references) | |
The word tumor does not always imply cancer. (references) | ||
Chorea is derived from the Greek word for dance. (references) | ||
Business | Many new patients to JV hospitals and clinics are generated through word of mouth. (references) | |
However, the most successful method of marketing is word of mouth and a good reputation. (references) | ||
However the most the most successful method of marketing is word of mouth and a good reputation. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Jordan | At the request of the CHE, the most recent application contained a proposal for an expanded curriculum and a new name without the word "evangelical"--Jordan Minara University. (references) |
Turkey | In January RTUK closed a Batman radio station for 90 days for playing a Kurdish song reportedly containing the word "Kurdistan." RTUK decisions may be appealed to the provincial administrative court and then to the Council of State (Danistay). (references) | |
Algeria | Broad provisions in the new law provide for prison terms of between 2 and 24 months and fines ranging from $129 (10,000 dinars) to $6,494 (500,000 dinars) for "any person who insults a judge, a civil servant, or one of the representatives of public order with a word, a gesture, a threat, a piece of correspondence, a piece of writing or a drawing while they are exercising their profession, and does so with the intention of offending their honor, their authority, or the respect required of their profession." The law, as amended, provides the same punishments for anyone who "commits insult, contempt or defamation" directed at "Parliament or one of its chambers, tribunals, courts of justice, the People's National Army, or any other authority of public order." No journalist had been charged under the new law by year's end; however, the Government brought defamation cases against journalists during the year under the old provisions of the Penal Code. (references) | |
Economic History | Vietnam | Awareness of brands comes from word of mouth, promotions and advertising. (references) |
Ukraine | Only the written word and the specific subject, as defined by law, have meaning. (references) | |
New Zealand | A limited liability company must have the word "Limited" as the last word of its name. (references) | |
Human Rights | Thailand | The family members of those 55 have had no word from them since that time. (references) |
Ireland | The word of a police superintendent can be used as corroborative evidence of membership. (references) | |
Hong Kong | In 1998 the Provisional Legislature passed the controversial Adaptation of Laws (Interpretive Provisions) Ordinance, which replaced the word "Crown" in Hong Kong legislation with the word "State" in hundreds of existing laws. (references) | |
Minorities | Russia | On September 24, vandals carved the Russian equivalent of the word "kikes" on the front door of the office of the Congress of Jewish Religious Organizations and Communities of Russia. (references) |
Greece | In June a court in Rodopi denied the registration of the "Political Association of Turkish Women of Rodopi." In December 2000, the Supreme Court overturned a 1999 Xanthi appeals court decision that upheld a 1986 trial court's order to close the "Turkish Union of Xanthi" because of the use of the word "Turkish" in the organization's name. (references) | |
Trade | Egypt | Dates are accepted in English, but the word "production" and "expiry" MUST be in Arabic. (references) |
Travel | Honduras | Additional words cost Lps. 0.22 per word. (references) |
Indonesia | Traditional Javanese culture emphasizes harmony and the word "no" is rarely used. (references) | |
Japan | In Japan, sets of four are considered unlucky (the number four is pronounced the same as the word for death). (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J. One day a wag -- what would the wretch be at? -- Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! Straight arose Fantastic priests and postulants (with shows, And mysteries, and mummeries, and hymns, And disputations dire that lamed their limbs) To serve his temple and maintain the fires, Expound the law, manipulate the wires. Amazed, the populace that rites attend, Believe whate'er they cannot comprehend, And, inly edified to learn that two Half-hairs joined so and so (as Art can do) Have sweeter values and a grace more fit Than Nature's hairs that never have been split, Bring cates and wines for sacrificial feasts, And sell their garments to support the priests. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bono | Investment in the future. Help is a good word. And I know if Americans understand that their money is going to be spent well, they are ready to step up to the plate. |
Donald Rumsfeld | Oh, my goodness, Iran is certainly not an ally. That's a word that's reserved for a relationship that's noticeably different than ours with Iran. |
Jack Lemmon | Mick was incredibly helpful with that because he could catch a word. If I hit it a little too hard, he would say, let's do it just once more. Watch it right here. And he'd tell me where. |
Jeffrey Koplan | Well, it shows what a word and a disease that was very obscure to all of us just a couple weeks ago, has now become common in our discussions, and even in children's knowledge. |
Julie Nixon Eisenhower | I want to express my appreciation to my Chinese voice. To Mrs. Chung. I listen to her translation. She got every word right. |
Kevin Kline | Mr. Bell, a word of warning, as the great wit Aristophanes once wrote, roughly translated, youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever. |
Paul Harvey | Sure, I still pound every word into an IBM Selectric. I did get that far. I used a manual typewriter until a just a few years ago. |
Rush Limbaugh | Last week, when we had word that the Office of Homeland Security was to be reorganized and turned into an official cabinet-level agency, I said that it would cost us. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | From this principle it will follow, that the form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best. |
William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | The work of formulating into practical shape such changes is creative word of the highest order, and requires all the deliberation possible in the interval. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | In a word, Cuba was under the continuous threat of aggressive forces, which did not conceal their intention to invade its territory. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Great nations like great men must keep their word. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | I want to say a special word now to those who work for our federal government. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Word" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.84% of the time. "Word" is used about 19,324 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.84% | 19,293 | 464 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.06% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.05% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.05% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19,324 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "word" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Word | Last name | 3,000 | 4,459 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "word". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Dabareh | N/A | Biblical | The word |
| Debir | N/A | Biblical | A word |
| Deborah | N/A | Biblical | Word |
| Hegai | N/A | Biblical | Word |
| Nimrod | N/A | Biblical | Rebellion (but probably an unknown Assyrian word) |
| Philologus | N/A | Biblical | Of the word |
| Deb | N/A | English | Word |
| Debbi | N/A | English | Word |
| Debbie | N/A | English | Word |
| Debby | N/A | English | Word |
| Debora | N/A | English | Word |
| Debra | N/A | English | Word |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Electric Word Plc |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "word": a bad word ♦ a household word ♦ a man of his word ♦ a word and a blow ♦ a word in season ♦ a word or two ♦ abide by one's word ♦ abusive word ♦ As good as one's word ♦ at a word ♦ at one word ♦ be as good as one's word ♦ be at a loss for a suitable word ♦ be better than one's word ♦ believe smb.'s bare word ♦ blend word ♦ blot out a word ♦ bookish word ♦ borrowed word ♦ break one's word ♦ brunch word ♦ Bug word ♦ by word of mouth ♦ channel address word ♦ code word ♦ cognate word ♦ complex word ♦ compound word ♦ content word ♦ control word ♦ curse word ♦ cuss word ♦ deictic word ♦ depart from one's word ♦ derivative word ♦ derived word ♦ dirty word ♦ discrete word intelligibility ♦ dishonour one's word ♦ drop a word ♦ duplicate word ♦ edge in a word ♦ elastic word ♦ empty word ♦ entry word ♦ equivalent word ♦ exophoric word ♦ explanation of a word ♦ filing word ♦ filler word ♦ final word ♦ from the word go ♦ function word ♦ get a word in edgeways ♦ get word ♦ ghost word ♦ give one's word ♦ give the word ♦ go back on one's word ♦ go back smb.'s word ♦ go back upon one's word ♦ good word ♦ gr/phonanta synetoisy/gr a word to the wise ♦ half word ♦ have a final word ♦ have a word ♦ have a word with ♦ have the last word ♦ he doesn't mince his word ♦ head word ♦ his word goes here ♦ hold one's word ♦ honour one's word ♦ household word ♦ i am going to have a word with him ♦ i give you my word ♦ in a word ♦ in one word ♦ in the full sense of the word ♦ in the narrowest sense of the word ♦ In word ♦ in word and in deed ♦ initial word ♦ initialisation word ♦ initialization word ♦ insist on having the last word ♦ insulting word ♦ Interjection: shush! tush! silence! mum! hush! chut! hist! tut! chup! mum's the word ♦ isolated word recognizer ♦ keep one's word ♦ keep the word ♦ key word ♦ last word ♦ leave word ♦ loan word ♦ longest word ♦ magic word ♦ main entry word ♦ man of his word ♦ mark my word ♦ may i have a word with you?. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "word": word-against-word, word-association, word-barrier, word-based, word-bite, word-blind, word-blindness, word-board, word-boards, word-book, word-books, word-boundaries, word-boundary, word-breaking, word-breaks, word-building, word-by, word-by-word, word-candidates, word-carrying, Word-catcher, word-centred, word-class, word-classes, word-clotted, word-count, word-covered, word-crunching, word-database, word-deaf, word-decoding, word-detector, word-drama, word-endings, word-ever, word-final, word-finally, word-finder, word-finding, word-form, word-formation, word-form-in-context, word-forms, word-for-sign, word-for-word, word-frequency, word-game, word-games, word-grammar, word-identity, word-initial, word-internal, word-internally, word-in-your-ear, word-jellied, word-judgement, word-length, word-lengths, word-level, word-like, word-list, word-lists, word-lookup, word-lures, word-machines, Word-maker, Word-makers, word-man, word-matching, word-meaning, word-meanings, word-merchant, Word-methinks, word-mungus, word-music, word-of-mouth, word-of-mouth advertising, word-order, word-ordered, word-orientated, word-oriented, word-or-phrase-type, word-painter, word-painting, word-pair, word-pairing, word-pairs, word-parsing, word-path, word-paths, word-perfect, word-per-sentence, word-picture, word-pictures, word-play, word-power, word-processed, word-processing, word-processiong, word-processor, word-processors, word-reading, word-recognition, word-referent, word-relation-word, word-repetition, word-seam, word-search, word-sense, word-sentences, word-setting, word-specific, word-spellings, word-spinning, word-splitter, word-splitting, word-star, word-stock, word-stress, word-string, word-strings, word-structure, word-superiority, word-tags, word-to-picture, word-tumbling, word-use, word-which, word-word, word-worship, word-wrap. | |
Ending with "word": colour-word, correct-word, co-word, end-of-word, f-word, half-word, mid-word, million-word, multi-word, non-word, one-word, part-word, p-word, single-word, spoken-word, sub-word, s-word, three-word, two-word, whole-word, word-by-word, word-for-word. | |
Containing "word": Can't-believe-a-word-he-says, colour-word-users, function-word-dependent, I'll-take-your-word-for-it, non-word-monitoring, one-word-answerable, spoken-word cassette, whole-word method. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
microsoft word | 4,731 | unscrambler word | 402 |
word search | 4,600 | corel word perfect | 398 |
word game | 3,449 | word processing software | 343 |
0x308 cannot memory read word | 3,305 | word processing | 320 |
word | 3,002 | word search game | 303 |
word game puzzle | 1,822 | word art | 302 |
word perfect | 1,393 | word template | 299 |
word search puzzle | 1,177 | microsoft word template | 291 |
word whomp | 1,141 | daily word | 289 |
word puzzle | 1,063 | word racer | 288 |
word of the day | 781 | word 2000 | 272 |
microsoft word download | 594 | word training | 250 |
mojo word | 549 | free microsoft word download | 247 |
word processor | 540 | word to pdf | 244 |
word tutorial | 538 | free microsoft word | 240 |
word origin | 487 | word of mouth | 240 |
ms word | 469 | cross word puzzle | 235 |
word definition | 460 | microsoft word 2000 | 232 |
free word game | 458 | word scramble | 229 |
word up | 405 | word search maker | 221 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "word"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | woord. (various references) | |
Albanian | fjalë (agreement, hearsay, language, news, order, promise, report, rumor, rumour, say, speech, term, vocable). (various references) | |
Arabic | كلمة (speech), كلمة الله, كلمة (term), نبأ (news), لفظة (verbalism), قول (say, saying, utterance), وعد (assurance, engagement, pledge, plight, promise, troth), عبر في كلمات, إشاعة (breeze, buzz, gossip, grape vine, hearing, hearsay, report, rumor, rumour, story, tale), أمر (affair, behest, charge, command, decree, dictate, direct, direction, enjoin, fiat, give an order, instruct, instruction, intimation, matter, officer, ordain, order, ordinance, prescribe, prescript, prescription, sound, thing, warn). (various references) | |
Basque | hitz. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | лозунг (shibboleth, slogan, war cry, watchword), дума (faith, vocable), дума по дума (literatim, verbally, verbatim), известие (announcement, message, notice), изразявам писмено, изразявам устно, парола (parole, password, shibboleth, sign, watchword), девиз (device, motto, posy, slogan), буквален (diplomatic, literal, near, textual, verbal), съобщение (advertisement, communication, intimation, knowledge, message, notice, notification, report, transmission), заповед (bidding, command, do, imperative, injunction, mandate, order, ordinance, precept), нареждане (arrangement, charge, dictation, do, mandate, order, pleasure, prescription, process, stowage), обещание (assurance, engagement, faith, pledge, promise, undertaking), вест (news), разговор (colloquy, conversation, dialogue, interlocution, passages, rap, talk, words), спор (altercation, argument, argumentation, contention, contest, contestation, controversy, difference, ding-dong, disputation, dispute, dissension, fight, jar, polemic, rift, run in, strife, variance, velitation, words), слово (disquisition, sermon, speech, utterance), правя подбор на думите си. (various references) | |
Catalan | mot. (various references) | |
Chinese | 詞 (classical Chinese poem, diction, how, phrases, works), 词 (words), 言 (talk, to say, to speak), 單詞 , 字 (character, letter, symbol). (various references) | |
Czech | slovo (clout). (various references) | |
Danish | ord. (various references) | |
Dutch | woord (string), bewoording (expression). (various references) | |
Esperanto | vorto. (various references) | |
Faeroese | orð. (various references) | |
Farsi | فرمان (Bull, Charter, Command, Commandment, Commission, Decree, Edict, Errand, Institute, Mandate, Ordinance, Ordonnance, Precept, Sanction), پیغام (Dispatch, Errand, Message), کلمه , لفظ (Particle), لغت (Verb, Vocabulary), لغات رابکاربردن , قول (Avow, Promise, Vow), گفتار (Article, Sermon, Speech), واژه , حرف (Blabbermouth, Grapheme, Jib, Letter, Particle, Say, Speech, Talk, Yap), سخن (Lip, Locution, Pronunciation, Redundancy, Speech, Utterance, Yap), عهد (Avow, Clause, Covenant, Era, Pact, Promise, Testament, Time, Vow), عبارت (Diction, Phrase, Quotation, Term), خبر (Advice, Call, Hearsay, Idea, Inkling, Manifest, News, Notice, Predicate), بالغات بیان کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | sana (message, term). (various references) | |
French | mot, parole, formuler. (various references) | |
Frisian | wurd. (various references) | |
German | Wort (keyword, mot, quotation, say so, saying, speech, term, undertaking, vocable), Vokabel (vocabulary), formulieren (couch, formulate, phrase, pose, to word), Datenwort. (various references) | |
Greek | λέξη (vocable). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | fjalë. (various references) | |
Hebrew | דבר (affair, anything, matter, message, object, saying, something, thing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szó (logo, no go!, term, vocable), jelszó (catchword, code word, countersign, parole, password, shibboleth, watchword). (various references) | |
Icelandic | orð. (various references) | |
Indonesian | wacana (discourse, expression), pertuturan (conversation, phrase, pronunciation), kata, kalam. (various references) | |
Irish | focal. (various references) | |
Italian | parola (promise, say, speech), formulare (express, formulate, frame, phrase, state). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 語 (language), 言葉 (language, speech), 言 (remark, statement), ワーク取り付け台 (fixtures, wardrobe, warning, warp, word processor, word-processor, worst), 伝言 (rumor, verbal message), 単語 (single-character word, vocabulary). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たんご (Boy's Day celebration, single-character word, vocabulary), ワード , でんごん (rumor, verbal message), つてごと (rumor, verbal message), ご (associate with, be clear, be cold, be serene, be skillful, doingfor, file, five, five-man squad, giving, Go, honourable, language, line, mis-, rank with), ことば (language, speech), げん (bow string, chord, fundamental, handle, not to be touched, original, primary, primitive, raw, remark, serious, statement, string). (various references) | |
Korean | 낱말 (words). (various references) | |
Lombard | paròla. (various references) | |
Manx | goo (reputation, voice), fockle (charm, vocable, word of honour). (various references) | |
Norwegian | ord. (various references) | |
Occitan | mot. (various references) | |
Papiamen | palabra. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ordway.(various references) | |
Polish | słowo. (various references) | |
Portuguese | palavra (expression, loan, say, shibboleth, spell, term, vox). (various references) | |
Romanian | ordin (bidding, category, class, command, commandment, commission, decree, degree, dictate, dictation, direction, fiat, injunction, mandate, order, ordinance, service, warrant), concepe (cogitate, compose, conceive, conceive of, devise, draft, gender, hatch, ideate, imagine, indite, rough draft, sketch, think, write), cuvânt (accent, address, advice, catchword, locution, promise, say, sound, speech, teaching, view, vocable), cuvînt, cuvinte grele, exprima în cuvinte (say), expune (air, carry forth, demonstrate, discourse, display, endanger, enounce, exhibit, explain, explicate, expose, expound, lay out, propound, relate, show, sport, spread, state, unfold, weather), fãgãduinţã, formula (couch, define, draw, enunciate, express, formulate, frame, have, indite, lay down, phrase, pose, push, put, put in, reduce, state), grai (faculty of speech, idiom, patois, power of speech, speech, tongue, voice), ştire (hearing, intelligence, message, news, notice, tidings), mesaj (address, appeal, call, message), zisã (remark, saying, words), parolã (catchword, countersign, order word, parole, password, watchword), poruncã (behest, bidding, charge, command, commandment, dictation, injunction, order), promisiune (engagement, faith, promise, undertaking), redacta (compose, couch, draft, draw, draw up, edit, frame, indite, prepare, redact, write), slovã (ink, letter), termen (expression, hour, name, relations, reprieve, term, terminus, terms, time), vocabulã (vocable), vorbã (accent, agreement, discussion, gossip, peep, pepper, rumor, rumour, say, saying, story, subject, talk, words), vorbå, limbã (dialect, finger board, language, manner of speech, phrase, speech, tongue). (various references) | |
Russian | слово (discourse, nonce-word, say). (various references) | |
Scottish | ràdh (adage, saying, sayinng), guth (syllable, v. ghuith; pl.+annan, voice, vote), focal (word. See <A HREF="mf05.html#facal">facal</A>), facal, focal, facal (word; also focal), briathar (a word, saying). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | reč (speech, vocable), izraziti rečima (verbalize), formulisati (couch, draft, formulate, frame, phrase, state). (various references) | |
Spanish | palabra (speech, term). (various references) | |
Sranan | wortu. (various references) | |
Swahili | neno. (various references) | |
Swedish | ord (lyrics, vocable, words), glosa (gibe, jibe, sneer, vocable). (various references) | |
Tagalog | salitâ. (various references) | |
Thai | พูดสนับสนุน (put a good word in for someone), พูดตอบรับ (say the word), พูดยกย่อง (say a (good) word for), อย่าเปิดเผยความลับ (mum's the word), คำรหัส (key word), คำหวาน (honeyed word), คำศัพท์ที่เข้าใจและใช้กันมาอย่างผิดๆ (ghost word). (various references) | |
Turkish | sözcük (vocable), söz (assurance, commitment, committal, engagement, expression, faith, pledge, plight, promise, say, saying, sentence, spiel, statement, talk, term, upon my word, verbalism, vocable, voice, wordy). (various references) | |
Turkmen | sцz (conversation, introduction). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | умовляти (admonish, blandish, cajole, expostulate, persuade, ply, reassure, tempt, woo), сентенція (epigram, gnome), слово, розпорядження (appointment, bidding, command, order, prescript, prescription), чутка (bruit, hearsay, noise, rumor, rumour, scuttlebutt, sough, whisper, wind), формулювати (couch, enunciate, form, formulate, phrase), говорити (say, speak, talk, tell, tongue), виражати словами (verbalize), обіцянка (affiance, faith, parole, promise, troth), звістка (advertisement, news, note, report), зауваження (admonition, objurgation, observation, remark), перепустка (billet, chit, conduct, countersign, order, password, permit, protection), пароль (catchword, countersign, nay-word, order word, parole, password, watchword). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tin tức (knowledge), từ lời nói, nói hộ khen ngợi thực hiện ngay lời doạ dẫm, lời nhắn lời hứa, lời lời báo tin, lời lệnh. (various references) | |
Welsh | gair. (various references) | |
Zulu | igama (appellation, name). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | 1. mu, inim. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | logos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | verbum. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | ... vacô, fravâkâi, sanghem, uxdhâ, vâc, vâxsh, vac, vaca, vaxsh-. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | muttum. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | giedd. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | terminus. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | verbe. (various references) |
| Portugese | 1100-Modern | palavra. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | mot, parole. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 5 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | PanteV logoi qeou pepurwmenoi uperaspizei de autoV twn eulaboumenwn auton |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Omnis sermo Dei ignitus clypeus est sperantibus in se |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Eche sermoun of God firid, a sheld it is to alle hoperis in itself. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Every word of God is pure: he is a shield to them that put their trust in him. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Every word of God is tested: he is a breastplate to those who put their faith in him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 5 |
| Cebuano | Ang tagsatagsa ka pulong sa Dios inulay: Siya mao ang usa ka kalasag kanila nga modangup diha kaniya. |
| Chinese | 神 的 言 語 、 句 句 都 是 煉 淨 的 、 投 靠 他 的 、 他 便 作 他 們 的 盾 牌 。 |
| Croatian | Svaka je Božja rijeè prokušana, štit onima koji se u nj uzdaju. |
| Danish | Al Guds Tale er ren, han er Skjold for dem, der lider på ham. |
| Dutch | Alle rede Gods is doorlouterd; Hij is een Schild dengenen, die op Hem betrouwen. |
| Finnish | Jokainen Jumalan sana on taattu; hän on niiden kilpi, jotka häneen turvaavat. |
| French | Toute parole de Dieu est éprouvée. Il est un bouclier pour ceux qui cherchent en lui un refuge. |
| German | Alle Worte Gottes sind durchläutert; er ist ein Schild denen, die auf ihn trauen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Allah menepati setiap janji-Nya. Ia bagaikan perisai bagi semua yang datang berlindung pada-Nya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Segala firman Allah itu amat suci adanya, maka Ialah laksana perisai bagi segala orang yang berpaut kepada-Nya. |
| Italian | Ogni parola di Dio è appurata; egli è uno scudo per chi ricorre a lui. |
| Korean | 하 나 님 의 말 씀 은 다 순 전 하 며 하 나 님 은 그 를 의 지 하 는 자 의 방 패 시 니 라 |
| Maori | Ko nga kupu katoa a te Atua he mea whakamatau: he whakangungu rakau ia ki te hunga katoa e whakawhirinaki ana ki a ia. |
| Norwegian | Alt Guds ord er rent; han er et skjold for dem som tar sin tilflukt til ham. |
| Portuguese | Toda palavra de Deus é pura; ele é um escudo para os que nele confiam. |
| Rumanian | Orice cuvknt al lui Dumnezeu este kncercat. El este un scut pentru ceice se kncred kn El. |
| Spanish | Probada es toda palabra de Dios; él es escudo a los que en él se refugian. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "word": wordage, wordages, wordbook, wordbooks, worded, wordier, wordiest, wordily, wordiness, wordinesses, wording, wordings, wordless, wordlessly, wordlessness, wordlessnesses, wordmonger, wordmongers, wordplay, wordplays, words, wordsmith, wordsmitheries, wordsmithery, wordsmiths, wordy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "word": afterword, backsword, broadsword, buzzword, byword, catchword, crossword, cussword, foreword, headword, keyword, loanword, misword, nonword, overword, password, reword, smallsword, swearword, sword, watchword. (additional references) | |
Words containing "word": afterwords, backswords, broadswords, buzzwords, bywords, catchwords, crosswords, cusswords, forewords, headwords, keywords, loanwords, misworded, miswording, miswords, nonwords, overwords, passwords, reworded, rewording, rewords, smallswords, swearwords, swordfish, swordfishes, swordlike, swordman, swordmen, swordplay, swordplayer, swordplayers, swordplays, swords, swordsman, swordsmanship, swordsmanships, swordsmen, swordtail, swordtails, watchwords. (additional references) | |
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"Word" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aword, dord, Eworp, jord, kord, oord, vord, wardf, werd, whord, wird, wod, wodri, woed, wond, woor, woord, wor, wora, Worb, worc, wordd, wordi, wordl, wored, worf, worg, worl, woro, worp, worq, worrd, Worrr, wors, worx, woud, wro, wroc, wrod, wrode, wrot, wrr, wud, wur, wurc, wurd, wurt, wurz, zword. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "word" (pronounced wer"d) |
| 3 | w er" d | reword. |
| 2 | -er" d | absurd, bird, blurred, Burd, chauffeured, concurred, conferred, curd, deferred, demurred, deterred, interred, gird, heard, herd, incurred, inferred, misheard, nerd, occurred, overheard, preferred, recurred, referred, slurred, spurred, stirred, third, transferred, uncured, undeterred, unheard. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-o-r-w" | |
-1 letter: dor, dow, rod, row. | |
-2 letters: do, od, or, ow, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-o-r-w" | |
+1 letter: crowd, dower, dowry, drown, rowdy, rowed, sword, words, wordy, world. | |
+2 letters: browed, byword, coward, crowds, crowdy, crowed, deworm, dowers, dowery, downer, dowser, drownd, drowns, drowse, drowsy, onward, powder, redowa, reword, swords, toward, trowed, weirdo, weldor, whored, wonder, worded, worked, worlds, wormed. | |
+3 letters: arrowed, becrowd, bowered, bowlder, browned, browsed, budworm, bywords, chowder, clowder, cowards, cowbird, cowered, cowherd, crowded, crowder, crowdie, crowned, daywork, decrown, dewdrop, deworms, doorway, dorhawk, dowager, dowdier, dowered, downers, downier, dowries, dowsers, drownds, drowned, drowner, drowsed, drowses, endower, forward, froward, frowned, growled, keyword, lowbred, lowered, madwort, misword, nonword, onwards, outdraw, outdrew, outward, powders, powdery, powered, prowled, redowas, redwood, reendow, resowed, rewords, rewound, roadway, rowdier, rowdies, rowdily, roweled, rubdown, rundown, scowder, strowed, towards, towered, warlord, weirdos, weldors, whorled, widower, windrow, wonders, woodier, wordage, wordier, wordily, wording, workday, worldly, worried, worsted, worthed, wronged. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Spoken 15. Quotations: Speeches 16. Usage Frequency | 17. Names: Frequency 18. Names: Derived from 19. Names: Company Usage 20. Expressions | 21. Expressions: Internet 22. Translations: Modern 23. Translations: Ancient 24. Bible Trace | 25. Abbreviations 26. Acronyms 27. Derivations 28. Rhymes | 29. Anagrams 30. Bibliography |
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