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Persch [dev] closes with a single word "No".

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Quick take

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"

Meaning at a glance

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noun

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"

noun

a brief statement; "he didn't say a word about it"

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information about recent and important events; "they awaited news of the outcome"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for word.

noun

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"

noun

a brief statement; "he didn't say a word about it"

noun

information about recent and important events; "they awaited news of the outcome"

noun

a verbal command for action; "when I give the word, charge!"

noun

an exchange of views on some topic; "we had a good discussion"; "we had a word or two about it"

noun

a promise; "he gave his word"

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a word is a string of bits stored in computer memory; "large computers use words up to 64 bits long"

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the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)

noun

a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group; "he forgot the password"

See also: password, watchword, parole, countersign

noun

the sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen"

verb

put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees"

Example sentences

Persch [dev] closes with a single word "No".

It comes from the Latin word credo, meaning "I trust.

[2] Again, you might not mean to reference that when you use words like "brogrammer".

Some teams were super-sharp, others were sloppy beyond words.

Four words, such a concise summary of my attitude!

Sociopath is a bad word for it, because it implies some sort of born pathology.

" You literally would have to substring match on user agent.- Okay, let's just substring match on the word "bot.

I would bet none of them speaks a word of English so it's unlikely the letter from a doctor in the US meant anything to them.

Once again, the talking points that this is all metadata--without explicitly using that particular word, though.

Business owners manage to simultaneously believe the business is beyond their control and yet hanging on their every word.

There is a reason why the word "vulgar" developed negative connotations over the centuries: it originally meant nothing more than "belonging to the crowd.

There are a large gradient of views here, and on one extreme are the bigots who hate homosexuals and on the other there are people who simply have hangups about the word "marriage" vs "civil unions.

> and there's no compilation step or anything -- then it's almost a fundamental paradigm shift for what desktop software could be.\n> It already makes me dream of a word processor I could hack like that, or a music player.

As the alternate-you haven't spent months and years internalizing these concept to become vis second nature, ve has to look up every other word, digress into Wikipedia to use DFS to find a connected component containing a concept you just don't yet understand.

Some of these words, like "measure" or "continuous" make some intuitive sense, but how can "measure" be "continuous" with respect to some other measure, and what the hell is Lebesgue measure anyway?Now, if you're a mathematician, you know that Lebesgue measure in simple cases is just a natural notion of area or volume, but you also know that it's very useful to be able to measure much more complicated sets than just rectangles, polyhedrals, balls, and other similar regular shapes.