WORDING
wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words, verbiage
(noun) the manner in which something is expressed in words; “use concise military verbiage”- G.S.Patton
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
wording (countable and uncountable, plural wordings)
A choice of words and the style in which they are used in a given context.
Synonyms
• See wording
Verb
wording
present participle of word
Source: Wiktionary
Word"ing, n.
Definition: The act or manner of expressing in words; style of expression;
phrasing.
It is believed this wording was above his known style. Milton.
WORD
Word, n. Etym: [AS. word; akin to OFries. & OS. word, D. woord, G.
wort, Icel. oredh, Sw. & Dan. ord, Goth. waúrd, 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." Piers Plowman.
You cram these words into mine ears, against The stomach of my sense.
Shak.
Amongst men who confound their ideas with words, there must be
endless disputes. Locke.
2. Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of
characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.
3. pl.
Definition: Talk; discourse; speech; language.
Why should calamity be full of words Shak.
Be thy words severe; Sharp as he merits, but the sword forbear.
Dryden.
4. Account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used
only in the singular.
I pray you . . . bring me word thither How the world goes. Shak.
5. Signal; order; command; direction.
Give the word through. Shak.
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. Shak.
I know you brave, and take you at your word. Dryden.
I desire not the reader should take my word. Dryden.
7. pl.
Definition: Verbal contention; dispute.
Some words there grew 'twixt Somerset and me. Shak.
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. Gal. v. 14.
She said; but at the happy word "he lives," My father stooped, re-
fathered, o'er my wound. Tennyson.
There is only one other point on which I offer a word of remark.
Dickens.
By word of mouth, orally; by actual speaking. Boyle.
– Compound word. See under Compound, a.
– Good word, commendation; favorable account. "And gave the
harmless fellow a good word." Pope.
– In a word, briefly; to sum up.
– In word, in declaration; in profession. "Let us not love in word,
. . . but in deed and in truth." 1 John iii. 8.
– Nuns of the Word Incarnate (R. C. Ch.), an order of nuns founded
in France in 1625, and approved in 1638. The order, which also exists
in the United States, was instituted for the purpose of doing honor
to the "Mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God." -- The word,
or The Word. (Theol.) (a) The gospel message; esp., the Scriptures,
as a revelation of God. "Bold to speak the word without fear." Phil.
i. 14. (b) The second person in the Trinity before his manifestation
in time by the incarnation; among those who reject a Trinity of
persons, some one or all of the divine attributes personified. John
i. 1.
– To eat one's words, to retract what has been said.
– To have the words for, to speak for; to act as spokesman. [Obs.]
"Our host hadde the wordes for us all." Chaucer.
– Word blindness (Physiol.), inability to understand printed or
written words or symbols, although the person affected may be able to
see quite well, speak fluently, and write correctly. Landois &
Stirling.
– Word deafness (Physiol.), inability to understand spoken words,
though the person affected may hear them and other sounds, and hence
is not deaf.
– Word dumbness (Physiol.), inability to express ideas in verbal
language, though the power of speech is unimpaired.
– Word for word, in the exact words; verbatim; literally; exactly;
as, to repeat anything word for word.
– Word painting, the act of describing an object fully and vividly
by words only, so as to present it clearly to the mind, as if in a
picture.
– Word picture, an accurate and vivid description, which presents
an object clearly to the mind, as if in a picture.
– Word square, a series of words so arranged that they can be read
vertically and horizontally with like results.
Syn.
– See Term.
Word, v. i.
Definition: To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute. [R.]
Word, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Worded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wording.]
1. To express in words; to phrase.
The apology for the king is the same, but worded with greater
deference to that great prince. Addison.
2. To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or
words. [Obs.] Howell.
3. To flatter with words; to cajole. [Obs.] Shak. To word it, to
bandy words; to dispute. [Obs.] "To word it with a shrew."
L'Estrange.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition