Wording

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Word \Word\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Worded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Wording}.]
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     1. To express in words; to phrase.
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              The apology for the king is the same, but worded
              with greater deference to that great prince.
                                                    --Addison.
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     2. To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a
        word or words. [Obs.] --Howell.
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     3. To flatter with words; to cajole. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     {To word it}, to bandy words; to dispute. [Obs.] "To word it
        with a shrew." --L'Estrange.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wording \Word"ing\, n.
     The act or manner of expressing in words; style of
     expression; phrasing.
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           It is believed this wording was above his known style.
                                                    --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wording
       n : the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use
           concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton [syn: {diction}, {phrasing},
            {phraseology}, {choice of words}, {verbiage}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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