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Old English word "speech, talk, utterance, sentence, statement, news, report, word," from Proto-Germanic *wurdan (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian word, Dutch woord, Old High German, Ge [..]
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A character string or a bit string considered to be an entity for some purpose. 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 interval [..]
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A data element of length 16 bits.
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(n) a unit of language that native speakers can identify(n) a brief statement(n) information about recent and important events(n) a verbal command for action(n) an exchange of views on some topic(n) a [..]
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(ord): the smallest linguistic unit that can have a syntactic function. A word has an expression side (combination of sounds, or of letters) and a content side (an independent meaning). A word may con [..]
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Often multiplayer, games that require a certain combination or creation of words to progress or win. E.g., Scrabble, Words with Friends, WordSearch Unlimited. 
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For searching purposes, any character or group of characters between two blank spaces, including initials or abbreviations.
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c. 1200, "to utter;" 1610s, "put into words," from word (n.). Related: Worded; wording.
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Word, The(Gr. Logos), one of the titles of our Lord, found only in the writings of John ( John 1:1-14 ; 1 John 1:1 ; Revelation 19:13 ). As such, Christ is the revealer of God. His office is to make G [..]
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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" g [..]
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See: computer word.
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A word is the smallest unit of a language that can exist on its own in either written or spoken language. A morpheme such as -ly, used to create an adverb cannot exist without the adjective it modifie [..]
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The thought of God or man.
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Microsoft Word, the de facto
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A man of his word. One whose word may be depended on; trustworthy.
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The second person of the Christian Trinity. (John i. 1.)
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In the context of documents available from this site, the designation (e.g. [Word 10kb]) refers to documents formatted for the Microsoft Word word processing program.
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an order or information that is intended to be disseminated to all hands. "The word is that there will be no liberty in Naples." When it is desired to announce that expected news has [..]
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A general term for a morphological form which is internally stable, can stand on its own and which in principle can be moved to a new position in a sentence. In a synthetic language like German inflec [..]
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In normal "computerese", the piece of data of the size most efficiently handled by your computer, typically 32 bits or so, give or take a few powers of 2. In Perl culture, it more often refers to an alphanumeric identifier (including underscores), or to a string of nonwhitespace characters bounded by whitespace or string boundaries.
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In normal “computerese”, the piece of data of the size most efficiently handled by your computer, typically 32 bits or so, give or take a few powers of 2. In Perl culture, it more often refers to an a [..]
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n 513 woordes 7 word 298 wordes 202 wordis 5 wordys 1
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 A unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds (or their written representation), which form a complete expression or can be differentiated from the elements that accompany it. In word p [..]
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a number of bytes that on a given machine is particularly suied to holding an integers or a pointer. On many machines, an object must be aligned on a word boundary for acceptable performance. An in [..]
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A shortening of the term Digital Word (a number of information bits that w communicate one value).
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A group of bits representing a complete piece of digital information.
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The smallest unit of language which has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language.from 10th c. *she believed them still so very much at [..]
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===Noun=== ====distinct unit of language==== =====Synonyms===== word lexeme swearword buzzword noun adjective pronoun numeral verb adverb preposition conjunction interjection article particle demons [..]
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v=onepage&q&f=false |isbn=9780486216508 |page=6 |publisher=Courier Dover Publications |passage=It will help you to expand your Portuguese vocabulary if you remember that many Portuguese words are sim [..]
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A word is a unit of language. Word(s) may also refer to:
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In linguistics, a word is the smallest element that can be uttered in isolation with objective or practical meaning. This contrasts deeply with a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of meaning but w [..]
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In computing, a word is the natural unit of data used by a particular processor design. A word is a fixed-sized piece of data handled as a unit by the instruction set or the hardware of the processor. [..]
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WORD, known on-air as "ESPN Upstate", is a sports-formatted radio station in the Greenville-Spartanburg area of Upstate South Carolina. The Entercom Communications outlet is licensed by the Federal Co [..]
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In group theory, a word is any written product of group elements and their inverses. For example, if x, y and z are elements of a group G, then xy, z−1xzz and y−1zxx−1yz−1 are words in the set {x, y, [..]
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In group theory, a word is any written product of group elements and their inverses. For example, if x, y and z are elements of a group G, then xy, z−1xzz and y−1zxx−1yz−1 are words in the set {x, y, [..]
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In linguistics, a word is the smallest element that can be uttered in isolation with objective or practical meaning. This contrasts deeply with a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of meaning but w [..]
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Word, an academic journal of linguistics issued four times a year, is the publication of the International Linguistic Association (ILA). Founded in 1943 as the Linguistic Circle of New York, the ILA b [..]
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"Word" (Japanese: ワード, Hepburn: Wādo) (Japanese pronunciation: [ɰa:do]) is a song by Japanese band Sakanaction. It was released on December 5, 2007 as a double A-side digital single alongside "Sample" [..]
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a spoken sound or group of letters that means something when you hear it or read it
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Accurate information. Usage, 'The word has it we're goin' to New Caledonia." (See also, 'Dope.')
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 to flatter or put off with words.
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(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 [..]
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(1) In word processing, any group of characters separated by spaces or punctuation on both sides. Whether it is a real word or not is unimportant to the word processor. (2) In programming, the natural [..]
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an entry in the mental dictionary, stored in the form of a string of phonemes (organized into morphemes) and an arbitrarily associated meaning (Pinker 1994).    
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, sb. news; a message. ‘Word come that his brother was dead.’ ‘Did the master leave word when he would be home?’
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A memory location consisting of a number of bits to form a piece of information (normally a number or letter). Typically in PLCs the length of a word is 16 bits. See also: Binary Coded Decimal, Bit, B [..]
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n. "word; decision, decree; promise," s.v. word sb. OED. KEY: word@n
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