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• word — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Written communication Nouns 1. word, term, expression, locution, linguistic unit or form, word form, lexeme; homonym, synonym, antonym, heteronym, homophone; syllable, monosyllable, polysyllable; stem,… …   English dictionary for students

• Word Racer — is a game developed by Yahoo! in 1999 for use on its Yahoo! Games page. The game play is similar to Boggle with some notable exceptions, especially the scoring and game board configurations. Rules and Scoring There are four rounds per game of… …   Wikipedia

• Word error rate — (WER) is a common metric of the performance of a speech recognition system.The general difficulty of measuring performance lies in the fact that the recognized word sequence can have a different length from the reference word sequence (supposedly …   Wikipedia

• Word of the year — The word(s) of the year, sometimes capitalized as Word(s) of the Year and abbreviated WOTY or WotY, refers to any of various assessments as to the most important word(s) or expression(s) in the public sphere during a specific year. Contents 1… …   Wikipedia

• List of forms of word play — This is a list of techniques used in word play with Wikipedia articles.Technique that involve the phonetic values of words* Mondegreen: a mishearing (usually unintentional) of a phrase as a homophone or near homophone that has as a result… …   Wikipedia

• Microsoft Word — Microsoft Office Word Microsoft Office Word 2010 on Windows 7 …   Wikipedia

• Mormon (word) — For other uses, see Mormon (disambiguation). Book of Mormon as printed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints (2009) The term Mormon most commonly denotes an adherent, practitioner, follower, or constituent of Mormonism, which is the… …   Wikipedia

• Out of use — Out Out (out), adv. [OE. out, ut, oute, ute, AS. [=u]t, and [=u]te, [=u]tan, fr. [=u]t; akin to D. uit, OS. [=u]t, G. aus, OHG. [=u]z, Icel. [=u]t, Sw. ut, Dan. ud, Goth. ut, Skr. ud. [root]198. Cf. {About}, {But}, prep., {Carouse}, {Utter}, a.]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Imprint — In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to… …   Wikipedia

• Keikogi — (稽古着 or 稽古衣?) or dōgi (道着) is a uniform for training, used in martial arts derived from Japan, or budō. (keiko means practice, gi means dress or clothes). The prototype for the modern keikogi emerged in the late 19th century. The keikogi was… …   Wikipedia

• catachresis — [kat΄ə krē′sis] n. pl. catachreses [kat΄ə krē′sēz΄] [L < Gr katachrēsis, misuse of a word < katachrēsthai < kata , against + chrēsthai, to use < chrē, it is necessary < ? IE * ĝhrē , var. of base * ĝher , small, be lacking]… …   English World dictionary