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Process of reading single words
Word recognition, according to Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS) is "the ability of a reader to recognize written words correctly and
Word_recognition
Computer recognition of visual text
character recognition (OCR) – targets typewritten text, one glyph or character at a time. Optical word recognition – targets typewritten text, one word at a
Optical_character_recognition
Automatic conversion of spoken language into text
Speech recognition (automatic speech recognition (ASR), computer speech recognition, or speech-to-text (STT)) is a sub-field of computational linguistics
Speech_recognition
Computer language processing metric
Word error rate (WER) is a common metric of the performance of a speech recognition or machine translation system. The WER metric typically ranges from
Word_error_rate
Computer recognition of written words
Intelligent word recognition (IWR) is the recognition of unconstrained handwritten words. IWR recognizes entire handwritten words or phrases instead of
Intelligent_word_recognition
Taking in the meaning of letters or symbols
researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling), punctuation, alphabetics, phonics, phonemic
Reading
Ability of a computer to receive and interpret intelligible handwritten input
piece of paper by optical scanning (optical character recognition) or intelligent word recognition. Alternatively, the movements of the pen tip may be sensed
Handwriting_recognition
Method of teaching reading and writing
reading as the word recognition processes (recognizing the words on the page, free of context and using phonics) and the language recognition processes (understanding
Phonics
"no", it might suggest that language selection happens before the recognition of a word and only the lexical information of the target language is selectively
Bilingual_lexical_access
Algorithm for measuring similarity between temporal sequences
(1988-01-01). "Speaker-Independent English Consonant and Japanese Word Recognition by a Stochastic Dynamic Time Warping Method". IETE Journal of Research
Dynamic_time_warping
Computer recognition of written text
intelligent word recognition (IWR) focuses on reading a word in context rather than recognizing individual characters. Intelligent word recognition (IWR) can
Intelligent character recognition
Intelligent_character_recognition
Study of reading and its acquisition
explained by low word recognition and/or low language comprehension. A second feature of the model is that it shows how word recognition and language comprehension
Science_of_reading
Commonly used words that children are encouraged to memorize
teaching sight words are making it harder for children to "gain basic word-recognition skills" that are critically needed by the end of grade three and can
Sight_word
Measure of writing, typing, or reading speed
length, for the purpose of measurement of text entry the definition of each "word" is often standardized to be five characters or keystrokes long in English
Words_per_minute
Region of the brain
within written language. In addition to word recognition, the VWFA may participate in higher-level processing of word meaning. It was previously believed
Visual_word_form_area
Alleged impact on behavior
negative, affective, semantic, or conceptual. Priming effects involve word recognition, semantic processing, attention, unconscious processing, and many other
Priming_(psychology)
Signal representation used in automatic speech recognition
doi:10.1007/BF02943243. Furui, S. (1986). "Speaker-independent isolated word recognition based on emphasized spectral dynamics". ICASSP '86. IEEE International
Mel-frequency_cepstrum
Learning disability affecting reading
specifically affecting the attainment of literacy, with difficulty esp. in word recognition, spelling, and the conversion of letters to sounds, occurring in a
Dyslexia
Gyrus of the temporal and occipital lobes of the brain
critical for face and body recognition. It is believed that portions of the left hemisphere fusiform gyrus are used in word recognition. Further research by
Fusiform_gyrus
Psychological effect involving letters in a word
so our recognition of words is based on what letters it contains, where the letters are placed within that word and the length of the word itself. Another
Transposed_letter_effect
Ability to read and understand text
of a word and relate it to similar words. Shallow processing involves structural and phonemic recognition, the processing of sentence and word structure
Reading_comprehension
Better recognition of letters if in words
In cognitive psychology, the word superiority effect (WSE) refers to the phenomenon that people have better recognition of letters presented within words
Word_superiority_effect
Model of speech recognition
specialized recognition units, each able to recognize one specific word. This model provides for the effects of context on word recognition. The word logogen
Logogen_model
Speech comprehension region in the dominant hemisphere of the hominid brain
STG is one of the regions most consistently implicated in auditory word recognition by functional imaging experiments. Others argue that adjacent parts
Wernicke's_area
Significantly advanced reading ability in children
scientifically described in 1967, it can be viewed as an ability in which word recognition ability goes far above expected levels of skill. Some hyperlexics,
Hyperlexia
Text captured as part of outdoor surroundings in a photograph
enhanced recognition of born-digital word images". D. Kumar and A. G. Ramakrishnan. Power-law transformation for enhanced recognition of born-digital word images
Scene_text
Model of lexical retrieval
selection or recognition and competition. These processes continue until an instant, called the recognition point, at which only one word remains activated
Cohort_model
Set of words
language or the set known to an individual. The word vocabulary originated from the Latin vocabulum, meaning "a word, name". It forms an essential component of
Vocabulary
List of frequently used English words
The Dolch word list is a list of frequently used English words (also known as sight words), compiled by Edward William Dolch, a major proponent of the
Dolch_word_list
Weber, Andrea; Scharenborg, Odette (2012-05-01). "Models of spoken-word recognition". Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science. 3 (3): 387–401
TRACE_(psycholinguistics)
Hypothesis in cognitive neuroscience
that visual word recognition is a result of recycling cortical structures whose initial functions were for object recognition. The visual word form area
Neuronal_recycling_hypothesis
Capacity for a sign to have multiple related meanings
sign (e.g. a symbol, morpheme, word, or phrase) to have multiple related meanings. For example, a word can have several word senses. Polysemy is the opposite
Polysemy
Automated recognition of patterns and regularities in data
capabilities of many text editors and word processors. A modern definition of pattern recognition is: The field of pattern recognition is concerned with the automatic
Pattern_recognition
Approach to teaching children to read
teaching of concepts about print, phonemic awareness, decoding, and word recognition, as well as vocabulary and concept development. In 2014, the department
Whole_language
Writing created by a person with a writing implement
piece of paper by optical scanning (optical character recognition) or intelligent word recognition. Alternatively, the movements of the pen tip may be sensed
Handwriting
Theory of two separate mental mechanisms
pathway going from visual word recognition straight to speech production, or a less direct pathway going from visual word recognition to semantic processing
Dual-route hypothesis to reading aloud
Dual-route_hypothesis_to_reading_aloud
teaching in concepts about print, phonemic awareness, decoding and word recognition, and vocabulary and concept development. By 1998, in the U.K. whole
History_of_learning_to_read
The word frequency effect is a psychological phenomenon where recognition times are faster for words seen more frequently than for words seen less frequently
Word_frequency_effect
Subcategory of memory
recognition". Memory & Cognition. 2 (4): 613–615. doi:10.3758/BF03198129. PMID 24203728. Rabinowitz, J.C.; Graesser, A.C.I. (1976). "Word recognition
Recognition_memory
Style of penmanship
"Offline Cursive Bengali Word Recognition Using CNNS with a Recurrent Model". Offline Cursive Bengalese Word Recognition Using CNNs with a Recurrent
Cursive
Extraction of named entity mentions in unstructured text into pre-defined categories
Named-entity recognition (NER) (also known as (named) entity identification, entity chunking, and entity extraction) is a subtask of information extraction
Named-entity_recognition
Scientific theory of Reading Comprehension
to include the cognitive sub-components (Language Comprehension and Word Recognition) as integral to the process of skilled reading. Psychologist David
Simple_view_of_reading
Basic word processor formerly included with Microsoft Windows
include speech recognition, allowing dictation into WordPad. These and later Windows versions implement the RichEdit control, allowing WordPad to support
WordPad
Brain area
Olivier; Lachaux, Jean-Philippe (November 2008). "Cortical dynamics of word recognition". Human Brain Mapping. 29 (11): 1215–1230. doi:10.1002/hbm.20457. PMC 6871193
Brodmann_area_45
Study of relations between psychology and language
another one? A researcher interested in language comprehension may study word recognition during reading, to examine the processes involved in the extraction
Psycholinguistics
Awareness of the sound structure of words
tasks Spoken word recognition: e.g., "Do these words rhyme: shell bell?" Spoken rhyme detection or rhyme oddity task: e.g., "Which word does not rhyme:
Phonological_awareness
Long word in the English language
There is varied recognition of antidisestablishmentarianism among major English dictionaries. Merriam-Webster does not recognize the word because it is
Antidisestablishmentarianism (word)
Antidisestablishmentarianism_(word)
Set of conventions to represent words in writing
commonly called "misspellings". A misspelled word can be a series of letters that represents no correctly spelled word of the same language at all (such as "leik"
Spelling
Internal process while reading
and Memory, 1(6), 772-779. Eiter, B., & Inhoff, A. (2010). Visual Word Recognition During Reading by Subvocal Articulation. Journal of Experimental Psychology
Subvocalization
Korean words of Chinese origin
O'Grady, William (1996). Handbook of Korean Vocabulary: An Approach to Word Recognition and Comprehension. University of Hawaii Press. pp. ix. ISBN 0824818156
Sino-Korean_vocabulary
Series of children's early reading books
whole-word or look-say method of word recognition (also called sight reading). The Dick and Jane primers introduced new readers to one new word on each
Dick_and_Jane
Reading method
interview, Goodman responded to criticisms of three cueing, saying that "word recognition is a preoccupation" and emphasizing that he places greater value on
Three_cueing
Range of neurodevelopmental conditions
reading process, including difficulty with accurate or fluent word recognition, or both, word decoding, reading rate, prosody (oral reading with expression)
Learning_disability
Theory in cognitive science
recognition. Although not perfect, the pandemonium architecture influenced the development of modern connectionist, artificial intelligence, and word
Pandemonium_architecture
Brief neuropsychological assessment
11 tasks: Word Recall Task Naming Objects and Fingers Following Commands Constructional Praxis Ideational Praxis Orientation Word Recognition Task Remembering
ADAS-Cog
Words pronounced the same but differing in meaning or spelling
A homophone (/ˈhɒməfoʊn, ˈhoʊmə-/) is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning or in spelling. The two words may be spelled
Homophone
Type of feedforward neural network
realize a speaker-independent isolated word recognition system. In their system they used several TDNNs per word, one for each syllable. The results of
Convolutional_neural_network
Writing format
Styles What's in a nAME(cq)?, by Bill Walsh, at The Slot The Science of Word Recognition, by Kevin Larson, Advanced Reading Technology, Microsoft Corporation
Camel_case
Educational term
Read more willingly and more often. Become more interested in the printed word in general, including their own writing. Become more receptive to enrichment
Independent_reading
Writing system where each symbol stands for a consonant
roots (especially in conjunction with context clues) and improving word recognition[citation needed][dubious – discuss] while reading for practiced readers
Abjad
Influential 2012 deep convolutional neural network
(November 1990). A Neural Network for Speaker-Independent Isolated Word Recognition. First International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP
AlexNet
Novel by William Gaddis
The Recognitions is the 1955 debut novel of American author William Gaddis. The novel was initially poorly received by critics. After Gaddis won a National
The_Recognitions
Degree of a language's spelling-sound correspondence
intended in which word. According to the orthographic depth hypothesis, shallow orthographies are more easily able to support a word recognition process that
Orthographic_depth
American-Canadian TV series (2004–2009)
In 2006, The L Word won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Drama Series. It was consequently honored with a Special Recognition Award in 2009 from
The_L_Word
Smallest functional written unit
linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest functional unit of a writing system. The word grapheme is derived from Ancient Greek's gráphō ('write'), and the suffix
Grapheme
Electronic stylus for LeapFrog products
Because Tag readers are designed with both full reading and individual word recognition this allows for differentiation. Tag also helps students learning English
LeapFrog_Tag
Integrated circuit technology
Dimitrijev, S. (2015). "Memristor pattern recogniser: isolated speech word recognition". Electronics Letters. 51 (17): 1370–1372. Bibcode:2015ElL....51.1370M
Neuromorphic_computing
Techniques claiming to improve the ability to read quickly
retention. There are three types of reading: Subvocalization: sounding out each word internally, as reading to oneself. This is the slowest form of reading. Auditory
Speed_reading
Teaching reading by blending and segmenting the sounds of the letters
reading" as the word recognition processes (recognizing the words on the page, free of context and using phonics) and the language recognition processes (understanding
Synthetic_phonics
Predictable and systematic relationship between letters and spoken sounds
and to be learned to automaticity, in order to facilitate the rapid word recognition upon which comprehension depends. Others, including advocates of whole-language
Alphabetic_principle
American psychologist
networks) to explain cognitive phenomena such as spoken word recognition and visual word recognition. McClelland is to a large extent responsible for the
James McClelland (psychologist)
James_McClelland_(psychologist)
Reading ability test
"A not-so-simple view of reading: how oral vocabulary and visual-word recognition complicate the story". Reading and Writing. 23 (2): 189–208. doi:10
Test of Word Reading Efficiency
Test_of_Word_Reading_Efficiency
2000 video game
features levels in mathematics and phonics involving spelling, word recognition, number recognition and arithmetic. Since its release in 1996 for MS-DOS and
Rayman_Brain_Games
Governments' recognition of the Ottoman empire's mass killing of Armenians as genocide
The recognition of the Armenian genocide is the acknowledgement of the fact that the Ottoman Empire's systematic massacres and forced deportation of Armenians
Armenian_genocide_recognition
Content management system
WordPress (WP, or WordPress.org) is a web content management system. It was originally created as a tool to publish blogs but has evolved to support publishing
WordPress
Branch of machine learning
importantly, the TIMIT task concerns phone-sequence recognition, which, unlike word-sequence recognition, allows weak phone bigram language models. This lets
Deep_learning
impact our daily lives in many ways such as word recognition, learning abilities, memory, and object recognition. It can have an extensive effect on marketing
Context_effect
Timing, rhythm, and intonation of speech
studies performed in both English and Bulgarian. Research in English word recognition has demonstrated an important role for prosody. Intonation and stress
Prosody_(linguistics)
American neurosurgeon
significant consequences on auditory word recognition. Conversely, interruption of the left STG does impair auditory word recognition. Instead of serial feedforward
Edward_Chang_(neurosurgeon)
Ability to read and write
approach explicitly and systematically focuses on phonological awareness, word recognition, phonics, decoding, spelling, and syntax at both the sentence and paragraph
Literacy
Psycholinguistic procedure
the task to prominence in a series of studies on semantic memory and word recognition in the early 1970s. Since then, the task has been used in thousands
Lexical_decision_task
Process of hearing and understanding language
information can then be used for higher-level language processes, such as word recognition. Acoustic cues are sensory cues contained in the speech sound signal
Speech_perception
Using national flags as icons for languages
and language tags: Effects of flag-language congruency in bilingual word recognition. Acta Psychologica – via Science Direct. Guilherme, Manuela; Souza
Flag_icons_for_languages
believed that the best current approach to discover immediate signs of word recognition is through recordings of eye movement and event-related potential.
Eye_movement_in_reading
Neural network architecture
pooling in TDNNs in order to realize a speaker independent isolated word recognition system. In modern language, the design of TDNN is a 1D convolutional
Time_delay_neural_network
design of automated handwriting recognition systems. A standard statement of the paradox is that a cursively written word cannot be recognized without being
Sayre's_paradox
Pedagogical technique
Structured Word Inquiry (SWI) is a pedagogical technique that involves the scientific investigation of the spelling of words. SWI emphasizes the scientific
Structured_word_inquiry
Word used to describe a person who is 13 to 19 years old
they may not have a numeric equivalent to teenager and may use the same word for adolescent in their translation for teenager. For example, teenager in
Teenager_(word)
Acknowledgement of one state for another
Diplomatic recognition in international law is a unilateral declarative political act of a state that acknowledges an act or status of another state or
Diplomatic_recognition
Speech recognition software
Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) is speech recognition developed by Microsoft for Windows Vista that enables voice commands to control the desktop user
Windows_Speech_Recognition
Logographic writing system
O'Grady, William (1996). Handbook of Korean Vocabulary: A Resource for Word Recognition and Comprehension. University of Hawaiʻi Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-1815-9
Chinese_characters
Chinese characters used in Korean writing
O'Grady, William (1996). Handbook of Korean Vocabulary: An Approach to Word Recognition and Comprehension. University of Hawaii Press. pp. ix. ISBN 0824818156
Hanja
Processing of natural language by a computer
(1983), Two-level morphology: A general computational model of word-form recognition and production (PDF), Department of General Linguistics, University
Natural_language_processing
Condition of having severe reading issues but with all other language skills intact
accuracy are better for untrained text, and word-form recognition improves as evidenced by a reduced word-length effect.' These tactics have seen quite
Pure_alexia
In U.S. Federal income tax law, recognition is among a series of prerequisites to the manifestation of gains and losses used to determine tax liability
Recognition_(tax)
Psychological phenomenon
recall, and recognition tests. In one study, the subject was provided with a stimulus word, the first letter of the response, and a word relating the
Generation_effect
Method in natural language processing
In natural language processing, a word embedding is a representation of a word. The embedding is used in text analysis. Typically, the representation is
Word_embedding
Ability to deliver information quickly and correctly
but separable skills: Reading fluency refers to the link between the recognition of words while reading and reading comprehension, which manifests itself
Fluency
Multinational medical device company
demonstrated that some patients could achieve substantial open-set word recognition without visual cues. However, a redesign that replaced the intracochlear
MED-EL
Psycholinguistic variable
Philip T. (1992-11-01). "Age of acquisition, not word frequency, affects object naming, not object recognition". Memory & Cognition. 20 (6): 705–714. doi:10
Age_of_acquisition
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Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood or a metonymic occupational name for a woodcutter or forester, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu).English and Scottish : nickname for a mad, eccentric, or violent person, from Middle English wÅd ‘mad’, ‘frenzied’ (Old English wÄd), as in Adam le Wode, Worcestershire 1221.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived near a ford, Middle English, Old English ford, or a habitational name from one of the many places named with this word, such as Ford in Northumberland, Shropshire, and West Sussex, or Forde in Dorset.Irish : Anglicized form (quasi-translation) of various Gaelic names, for example Mac Giolla na Naomh ‘son of Gilla na Naomh’ (a personal name meaning ‘servant of the saints’), Mac Conshámha ‘son of Conshnámha’ (a personal name composed of the elements con ‘dog’ + snámh ‘to swim’), in all of which the final syllable was wrongly thought to be áth ‘ford’, and Ó Fuar(th)áin (see Foran).Jewish : Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.Translation of German Fürth (see Furth).
Boy/Male
Muslim
Blossoms, Flowers
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Herd.Respelling of Swedish HÃ¥rd (see Hard 2).
Surname or Lastname
German and Danish
German and Danish : variant of Wurm.English : nickname from Middle English wurm ‘serpent’, ‘dragon’ (Old English wyrm).
Male
English
 English occupational surname transferred to forename use, derived from Old English weard, WARD means "guard, watchman."Â
Male
English
Short form of English Gordon, GORD means "spacious fort."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained; perhaps a variant of Gourd.
Boy/Male
Teutonic American English Irish
Guard.
Boy/Male
American, British, Danish, English, Finnish, German, Swedish
Bold Adviser; Wise; Courageous Advice; Cord Maker; Wise Counsel; Honest Adviser; Surname
Girl/Female
Shakespearean
The Merry Wives of Windsor' Mistress Ford.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Old English weard ‘guard’ (used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).Irish : reduced form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.Surname adopted by bearers of the Jewish surname Warshawski, Warshawsky or some other Jewish name bearing some similarity to the English name.Americanized form of French Guerin.The surname Ward was brought to North America from England independently by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Nathaniel Ward (1578–1652), author of the MA legal code, was born in Haverhill, Suffolk, England, and emigrated to Agawam (Ipswich, MA) in 1633. William Ward was one of the original settlers of Sudbury, MA, in about 1638. Miles Ward came from England to Salem, MA, in about 1639. Thomas Ward (d. 1689) settled in Newport, RI, in 1671; among his descendants were two governors of colonial RI.
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, from the Old English word ford, FORD means "ford, river crossing."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained.
Surname or Lastname
Norwegian
Norwegian : variant spelling of Vold (see Voll).English : topographic name for someone who lived on any of the areas of open upland known from Middle English times onwards as wolds (e.g. the Yorkshire Wolds or the Cotswolds). This term derives from Old English wald ‘forest’ (see Wald). After the extensive clearance of forests in England, from before the Norman Conquest onward, the Old English term wald came to denote open uplands (wolds) in Middle English in certain areas of England.
Female
Scandinavian
Short form of Scandinavian Tordis, TORD means "Thor's goddess" or "Thor's woman."
Surname or Lastname
German (Wörl)
German (Wörl) : variant of Wehrle.English : perhaps a habitational name for someone from Worle in Somerset, which is most probably named with Old English wÅr ‘wood grouse’ + lÄ“ah ‘wood’, ‘(woodland) clearing’.
Surname or Lastname
English (Northumbria) and Scottish
English (Northumbria) and Scottish : habitational name from East Ord in Northumberland, named with Old English ord ‘point’. Compare Ort 3.English : from a Germanic personal name (see Ort 2).Scottish : habitational name from various minor places named with Gaelic ord ‘hammer’, used as a topographical term for a rounded hill.
Surname or Lastname
Scottish
Scottish : habitational name from the lands of Work in the parish of St. Ola, Orkney.English : from Old English (ge)weorc ‘work’, ‘fortification’, hence probably a topographic name or an occupational name for someone who worked on fortifications or at a fort.Danish : habitational name from a place so called.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from the vocabulary word lord, presumably for someone who behaved in a lordly manner, or perhaps one who had earned the title in some contest of skill or had played the part of the ‘Lord of Misrule’ in the Yuletide festivities. It may also have been an occupational name for a servant in the household of the lord of the manor, or possibly a status name for a landlord or the lord of the manor himself. The word itself derives from Old English hlÄford, earlier hlÄf-weard, literally ‘loaf-keeper’, since the lord or chief of a clan was responsible for providing food for his dependants.Irish : English name adopted as a translation of the main element of Gaelic Ó Tighearnaigh (see Tierney) and Mac Thighearnáin (see McKiernan).French : nickname from Old French l’ord ‘the dirty one’.Possibly an altered spelling of Laur.The French name is particularly associated with Acadia in Canada, around 1760.
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Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Jamaican
Wide Meadow; From Saint Denis; Bright Fame
Boy/Male
Muslim
Description of a lion
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Happy
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a pet form of the personal name Hugh, Hew (see Hugh).
Boy/Male
English Latin
Strong.; the name of more than 50 saints and three Roman emperors.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Girl/Female
Hindu
Victory
Girl/Female
Australian, Dutch, Hebrew
Gift from God
Male
Slovene
(ÐвгуÑÑ‚) Slovene form of Roman Latin Augustus, ÃVGUST means "venerable."
Boy/Male
Tamil
Blessing, Lord Shiva
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v. t.
To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.
n.
A wood; a forest.
n.
See Wood worm, under Wood.
v. t.
To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words.
superl.
Of or pertaining to words; consisting of words; verbal; as, a wordy war.
v. i.
To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
n.
A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc.
v. t.
To express in words; to phrase.
n.
Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.
v. t.
To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth.
v. t.
To flatter with words; to cajole.
v. i.
To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.
n.
The word or words governed.
v. t.
To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
adv.
With close adherence to words; word by word.
a.
Respecting words; full of words; wordy.
n.
One who cavils at words.
n.
Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm
superl.
Containing many words; full of words.
superl.
Using many words; verbose; as, a wordy speaker.