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(n)
(zoology) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.
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A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people.
(grammar) An idiomatic expression in general.
(v)
(transitive) To put into a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
a short musical passage
A choice of words and the style in which they are used in a given context.
(countable) A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from literature or a famous speech.
A statement attributed to a person; a quotation.
(uncountable) The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
A repeated expression, often originating in popular culture.
The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.
The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.
The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.
The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms.
A word used as a motto, as expressive of a principle, belief, or rule of action; a rallying cry.
A proverb or maxim.
The denotation, referent, or idea connected with a word, expression, or symbol.
The style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech.
Part of a longer paragraph that can be considered alone, as in a legal document.
(sometimes derogatory) A word drawn from, or imitative of, technical jargon, used more to impress others than to convey meaning.
A commonly used sentence expressing popular wisdom.
(formal or dated) A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified; a designation.
The collection of words a person knows and uses.
A speaking or noticing of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner.
A fact that shows that something exists or may happen.
(countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
An old saying which has obtained credit by long use.
The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.
A precept; a succinct statement or observation of a rule of conduct or moral teaching.
An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
The means by which one's personal characteristics are displayed; showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions/changes.
A spoken or written remark.
The act or process of becoming manifest.
(advertising) A catchphrase associated with a product or service being advertised.
(heading, physical) To do with shape.
Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.
A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
(countable) A physical entity typifying an abstract concept.
A casual observation, comment, or statement
That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.
A word or expression repeated until it becomes representative of a party, school, business, or point of view.
A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.
A declaration or remark.
Something which is proposed, or offered for consideration or acceptance.
An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.
A conditional provision to an agreement.
The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
A statement of a belief or a summary statement of a whole belief system; also (metonymically) the belief or belief system itself.
A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.
A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.
(uncountable) A practice of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity.
Speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless.
Lyrics.
A twisting force.
A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
(countable) The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross.
(uncountable) The act or process of breathing.
(nautical) A boat or ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule.
(uncountable) The quality, clarity, or sharpness of speech; the movement within the mouth that allows for those things.
A personal slogan.
(adj)
(biochemistry) That translates or transcribes nucleic acid.
The shell that surrounds the kernel of a nut.
A female given name from Arabic.
(N)
expr is a command line utility on Unix and Unix-like operating systems which evaluates an expression and outputs the corresponding value.
A phrase or expression peculiar to or characteristic of a given person or group of people.
(uncountable) A distinctive way of wording things, a distinctive way of writing or speaking.
The process of constructing.
Choice and use of words, especially with regard to effective communication.
(linguistics) A colloquial word or phrase; a common spoken expression.
A concise, terse, laconic, or memorable expression of a general truth or principle.
(uncountable) The use of a word or phrase to replace another one that is more offensive, blunt or vulgar.
(marketing) An advertising slogan.
The vocabulary of a language.
(linguistics) An abbreviation formed by the initial letters of other words.
(linguistics, lexicography, countable) A word or phrase which has recently been coined; a new word or phrase.
(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.
To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
A restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning or from memory rather than verbatim.
A term used to characterize a person or thing.
Overabundance of words.