Search Result for "wording":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. the manner in which something is expressed in words;
- Example: "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton
[syn: wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words, verbiage]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Word \Word\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Worded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wording.] [1913 Webster] 1. To express in words; to phrase. [1913 Webster] The apology for the king is the same, but worded with greater deference to that great prince. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 2. To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words. [Obs.] --Howell. [1913 Webster] 3. To flatter with words; to cajole. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] To word it, to bandy words; to dispute. [Obs.] "To word it with a shrew." --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Wording \Word"ing\, n. The act or manner of expressing in words; style of expression; phrasing. [1913 Webster] It is believed this wording was above his known style. --Milton. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "wording": choice of words, composition, dialect, diction, expression, formulation, grammar, idiom, language, locution, mode, parlance, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, rhetoric, speech, style, talk, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, verbalism, verbiage, wordage
