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<storage> A fundamental unit of storage in a computer. The size of a word in a particular computer architecture is one of its chief distinguishing characteristics.
The size of a word is usually the same as the width of the computer's data bus so it is possible to read or write a word in a single operation. An instruction is usually one or more words long and a word can be used to hold a whole number of characters. These days, this nearly always means a whole number of bytes (eight bits), most often 32 or 64 bits. In the past when six bit character sets were used, a word might be a multiple of six bits, e.g. 24 bits (four characters) in the ICL 1900 series.
(1994-11-11)

WORD
- Static variable in interface javax.accessibility.AccessibleText 
public static final int WORD
Constant used to indicate that the part of text that should be retrieved is a word.See Also:  getAtIndex(int, int) , getAfterIndex(int, int) , getBeforeIndex(int, int)

word
A single number (sample word) that represents the instantaneous amplitude of a sampled sound at a particular moment in time. In 8-bit recording, a sample word contains one byte; in 16-bit recording, each word is a two-byte number.

Word
(v. t.)
To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words.
  
(v. t.)
To flatter with words; to cajole.
  
(v. t.)
To express in words; to phrase.
  
(v. i.)
To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
  
(n.)
Verbal contention; dispute.
  
(n.)
The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable.
  
(n.)
Talk; discourse; speech; language.
  
(n.)
Signal; order; command; direction.
  
(n.)
Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise.
  
(n.)
Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.
  
(n.)
Account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used only in the singular.
  
(n.)
A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence.
  

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Noun
1. the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)
(synonym) Son, Logos
(hypernym) hypostasis
(hyponym) Messiah
2. the sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen"
(synonym) Bible, Christian Bible, Book, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word of God
(hypernym) sacred text, sacred writing, religious writing, religious text
(hyponym) family Bible
(part-meronym) Old Testament
(class) covenant

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Noun
1. 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"
(hypernym) language unit, linguistic unit
(hyponym) anagram
(part-meronym) syllable
(derivation) give voice, formulate, phrase, articulate
2. a brief statement; "he didn't say a word about it"
(hypernym) statement
(derivation) give voice, formulate, phrase, articulate
3. new information about specific and timely events; "they awaited news of the outcome"
(synonym) news, intelligence, tidings
(hypernym) information, info
(hyponym) good word
4. a promise; "he gave his word"
(synonym) parole, word of honor
(hypernym) promise
5. a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group; "he forgot the password"
(synonym) password, watchword, parole, countersign
(hypernym) positive identification
6. an exchange of views on some topic; "we had a good discussion"; "we had a word or two about it"
(synonym) discussion, give-and-take
(hypernym) speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, language, voice communication, oral communication
(hyponym) argument, argumentation, debate
7. a verbal command for action; "when I give the word, charge!"
(hypernym) order
8. a word is a string of bits stored in computer memory; "large computers use words up to 64 bits long"
(hypernym) computer memory unit
(part-holonym) kilobyte, K, KB
(part-meronym) byte

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Verb
1. put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees"
(synonym) give voice, formulate, phrase, articulate
(hypernym) express, show, evince
(hyponym) ask

A picture paints a thousand words
Meaning
A picture tells a story as well as a large amount of descriptive text.
Origin
The original quotation is 'One picture is worth ten thousand words', Frederick R. Barnard in Printer's Ink, 8 Dec 1921 retelling a Chinese proverb.

A word in your shell-like
Meaning
I would like to talk to you.
Origin
'Shell-like' - ear.

Bandy words
Meaning
To argue fervently.
Origin
The Irish game bandy is a ferocious ball game in which the ball is played to and fro with sticks. Earlier, in John Webster's The White Devil, 1612, the term was applied to tennis, or at that date more probably real tennis. 'He had been bandying at tennis'.

Mum's the word
Meaning
Keep quiet - say nothing.
Origin
Mum; not mother but 'mmmmm', the humming sound made with a closed mouth. Used by Shakespeare in Henry VI, Part 2. 'Seal up your lips and give no words but mum'.

Weasel words
Origin
Stewart Chaplin's story 'Stained glass political platform', 1900, contains 'Why, weasel words are words that suck the life out of the words next to them, just as a weasel sucks the egg and leaves the shell.' Theodore Roosevelt made use of the term in 1916 when criticizing President Wilson.

Word association football
Origin
A word game in which the first player starts with a word and subsequent players have to follow with a related word and so on. The pastime has been around for some years and is staple fare for families on long car journeys and the like. The Monty Python team coined the name for an inspired comic sketch. Word association is a psychological technique invented by Jung where patients are asked for an immediate response to any word fired at them. Association football is the proper name of soccer (and the origin of the word incidentally), although anyone outside the USA will tell you that the proper name of soccer is football.

Word for word
Meaning
Exact repetition of another's words.
Origin
Goes back to at least 1385 in Chaucer's 'I could folwe [follow] word for word Virgile'. [Good for Chaucer - damned if I can - ed].

Words ending in gry
Origin
This isn't a phrase but it is included here as many people search this site looking for the mythical 'third word ending in GRY'. If you are one such, read the explanation below and relax - you can stop searching. The story goes like this:
A riddle of this form is circulating widely on the Internet:
"There are three words in English that end in GRY, hungry and angry are two, what is the third?"
Much effort has gone into finding the word and various pseudo-medical or otherwise obscure words that purport to fit the bill have been put forward. The confusion comes from the fact that the version of the riddle in circulation isn't the original and misses a vital part of the wording. In its original form the riddle went like this:
"Think of words that end in GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is."
You will have realised by now that it's all a linguistic trick and the the third word in 'the English language' is of course 'language'.
So, now you can give up the search and move on to more useful pastimes.

Dirtie word
1. vulgar or rude word; 2. something one doesn't mention because it is as objectionable as if it were a vulgar word: "Work is a dirty word around here"

F-word
euphemism for “fuck”

Four-letter word
1. swear word; 2. anything which is distasteful or unpleasant: “Housework is a four-letter word” (so called since a number of important taboo words happen to be spelt with four letters in modern English)

Hard word
an immoral suggestion

Hard word on
apply pressure in pursuit of agreement to a proposal (often sex related)

Put the hard word on
1. apply pressure in pursuit of agreement to a proposal (often sex related); 2. ask a favour of; 3. ask another for sexual intercourse

The letter word
(often jocular) euphemistic way of mentioning a rude, contentious, or taboo topic that begins with the specified letter: “Not the `C' word!” (i.e. commitment); “the `L' word” (i.e. love); “the `F' word” (i.e. fuck)

The word
1. (often jocular) euphemistic way of mentioning a rude, contentious, or taboo topic that begins with the specified letter: “Not the `C' word!” (i.e. commitment); “the `L' word” (i.e. love); “the `F' word” (i.e. fuck); 2. news or information: “the word on the street is”; “The hot word is that she'll be visiting next year”

WORD
to flatter or put off with words; To repeat the words of a song

word
1. biblical (John1:1) "logos": truth
2. (interj) exclamation of affirmation. Question: "I'm goin' to the movies tonight, dawg - you 'bout it?" Response: "Word!"

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word
\word\ (?), n. [as. word; akin to ofries. & os. word, d. woord, g. wort, icel. or?, sw. & dan. ord, goth. wa?rd, opruss. wirds, lith. vardas a name, l. verbum a word; or perhaps to gr. "rh`twr an orator. cf. verb.]
1. the spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable. "a glutton of words." you cram these words into mine ears, against the stomach of my sense. amongst men who confound their ideas with words, there must be endless disputes.
2. hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.
3. pl. talk; discourse; speech; language. why should calamity be full of words? be thy words severe; sharp as he merits, but the sword forbear.
4. account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used only in the singular. i pray you bring me word thither how the world goes.
5. signal; order; command; direction. give the word through.
6. language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise. obey thy parents; keep thy word justly. i know you brave, and take you at your word. i desire not the reader should take my word.
7. pl. verbal contention; dispute. some words there grew 'twixt somerset and me.
8. a brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence. all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. v. 14. she said; but at the happy word "he lives," my father stooped, re-fathered, o'er my wound. there is only one other point on which i offer a word of remark.

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focal
basic words: focail bunúsach

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Anystywallt
Anystywallt = a. untoward. Any other word not mentioned here commencing

Arysgrif
Arysgrif = n. indorsement. Any other word not mentioned here, commencing

Barddair
Barddair = n. the bard's word

Ebri
Ebri = n. egress; a pass word

Gair
Gair = n. word; a saying

Geirio
Geirio = v. to word, to phrase

Mawrair
Mawrair = n. a boasting word

Mwysair
Mwysair = n. punning word

Rhagair
Rhagair = n. a leading word

Word
One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.

Words are to be understood in a proper or figurative sense, and they are used both ways in law. They are also used in a technical sense. It is a general rule that contracts and wills shall be construed as the parties understood them; every person, however, is presumed to understand the force of the words be uses, and therefore technical words must be taken according to their legal import, even iii wills, unlesh the testator manifests a clear intention to the contrary.

Every one is required to use words in the sense they are generally understood, for, as speech has been given to man to be a sign of his thoughts, for the purpose of communicating them to others, he is bound in treating with them, to use such words or signs in the sense sanctioned by usage, that is, in the sense in which they themselves understand them, or else he deceives them. Heinnec.

Formerly, indeed, in cases of slander, the defamatory words received the mildest interpretation of which they were susceptible, and some ludicrous decisions were the consequence. It was gravely decided, that to say of a merchant, "he is a base broken rascal, has broken twice, and I will make him break a third time," that no action could be maintained, because it might be intended that he had a hernia. But now they are understood in their usual signification.
   

This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.

Word
Word In religious and philosophical usage, a translation of the Greek logos or Latin verbum. Its meaning here is that of reason manifested, employed mainly in a cosmogonic sense. "The esoteric meaning of the word Logos (speech or word, Verbum) is the rendering in objective expression, as in a photograph, of the concealed thought. The Logos is the mirror reflecting divine mind, and the Universe is the mirror of the Logos, though the latter is the esse of that Universe. As the Logos reflects all in the Universe of Pleroma, so man reflects in himself all that he sees and finds in his Universe, the Earth" (SD 2:25). This word was chosen because human thought, or immanent conscious intelligence or mind, manifests itself through words. It is familiar to Christians through the opening verse of John: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God"; "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us" (1:1, 14). In the former quotation the meaning is entirely cosmogonic; in the latter, it has been diminished to signify the innate Word or divinity in man, which when in full control of the human adept can, by a stretch of metaphor, mean that the innate Christ, Buddha, or god in man so controls the human personality as to have become the latter, and thus to manifest among men.
Cosmogonically, theosophy considers the universe and all in it, from its first divine appearance to its last material modification, as being in toto as well as in all manifested details an emanation from the universal mind. This emanation takes place at the beginning of a manvantara in three separate stages or degrees: the First or unmanifest Logos; the Second or manifest-unmanifest Logos; and finally the Third or manifest Logos. Logos is applicable to these three stages because each is the manifesting of the wisdom in its divine predecessor, each stage carrying within itself, on the principle of the emanational scheme, the attributes or qualities of its predecessors. The Second Logos has invariably been considered feminine, and the Third Logos is regarded as the creative power.
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Word
(Gr. Logos), one of the titles of our Lord, found only in the writings of John (John 1:1-14; 1 John 1:1; Rev. 19:13). As such, Christ is the revealer of God. His office is to make God known. "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him" (John 1:18). This title designates the divine nature of Christ. As the Word, he "was in the beginning" and "became flesh." "The Word was with God " and "was God," and was the Creator of all things (comp. Ps.33: 6; 107:20; 119:89; 147:18; Isa. 40:8).

Dabareh
the word; the thing; a bee; obedient
  

Debir
an orator; a word
  

Deborah
word; thing; a bee
  

Hegai
or Hege, meditation; word; groaning; separation
  

Word
See Word of God

word
verbum

word /(med.) power
vox vocis

word
A character string or a bit string considered to be an entity for some purpose. (188 ) Note: In telegraph communications, six character intervals are defined as a word when computing traffic capacity in words per minute, which is computed by multiplying the data signaling rate in baud by 10 and dividing the resulting product by the number of unit intervals per character.

Word
Number of bits treated as a single unit by the CPU. In an 8-bit machine, the word length is 8 bits; in a sixteen bit machine, it is 16 bits.

Word
zhit

word
1) (n) Biblical (John1:1). "logos": truth. 2) (interj) Exclamation or term of endearment.

word
n. mu'

word
1) (n) Biblical (John1:1). "logos": truth.
2) (interj) Exclamation or term of endearment.

Word
The tips of the right index finger and thumb, about an inch apart, are placed on the side of the outstretched left index finger, which represents the length of the sentence.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Fear of long words

Onomatophobia
Fear of hearing a certain word or of names

Verbophobia
Fear of words

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