THE WORD

Definition: THE WORD

THE WORD

1. (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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Command

Issue a command; make a requisition, issue a requisition, promulgate a requisition, make a decree, issue a decree, promulgate a decree, make an order, issue an order, promulgate an order; Noun: give the word of command, give the word, give the signal; call to order; give the law, lay down the law; assume the command; (authority); remand.

Deception

Phrase: "keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope"; fronti nulla fides; "ah that deceit should steal such gentle shapes"; "a quicksand of deceit"; decipimur specie recti; falsi crimen; fraus est celare fraudem; lupus in fabula; "so smooth, he daubed his vice with show of virtue".

Deity

God the Son, Jesus, Christ; The Messiah, The Anointed, The Saviour, the Redeemer, The Mediator, The Intercessor, The Advocate, The Judge; The Son of God, The Son of Man, The Son of David; The Lamb of God, The Word; Logos; Emmanuel; Immanuel; The King of Kings and Lord of Lords, The King of Glory, The Prince of Peace, The Good Shepherd, The Way, The Truth, The Life, The Bread of Life, The Light of the World; The Lord our, The Sun of Righteousness; "The Pilot of the Galilean lake".

Incredulity

The word miscreant, which originally meant simply misbeliever, has now quite another meaning (). See Trench, On the Study of Words, p.

Taciturnity

Interjection: shush! tush! silence! mum! hush! chut! hist! tut! chup! mum's the word; keep your mouth shut!.

The Drama

Phrase: fere totus mundus exercet histrionem; "suit the action to the word, the word to the action"; "the play's the thing"; "to wake the soul by tender strokes of art".

Crosswords: THE WORD

The word I'm searching for, I can't say, because there's preschool toys present. (Toy Story; writing credit: John Lasseter; Andrew Stanton)

Now it's time for Korben to say the word of the day. So, tell me, my man, you happy here on the big world? (The Fifth Element; writing credit: Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen.)

Every time I hear the word culture, I bring out my checkbook. (Mépris, Le; writing credit: Alberto Moravia)

And what language employs the usage of the word freako? (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

Your so stupid, the word special comes to mind. (Dark Angel; writing credit: Ben Aaronovitch; Mark Ezra)

Soon as you say the word, we'll be on our way (If I Could Go; performing artist: Angie Martinez)

Changes are shifting outside the word (No More "I Love You's"; performing artist: Annie Lennox)

The word was we were just beside ourselves (And Our Feelings; performing artist: Babyface; writing credit: Babyface, Daryl Simmons)

That's the word out on the street (Blow Your Mind; performing artist: Baha Men)

If you're in the game, then the stroke's the word (THE STROKE; performing artist: Billy Squier)

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together. (references; author: unknown)

And the Word Was Made Flesh (1971)

Mummy's the Word (1962)

The Word (1953)

Violent Is the Word for Curly (1938)

Dumb's the Word (1937)

Bird's The Word, The (performing artist: The Rivingtons)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Word on Finances/Topical Scriptures and Concordance (reference)

• Arming the Children: Applications of the Word in Raising Behaviorally Challenged Children (reference)

• Obsessed: A Flesh and the Word Collection of Gay Erotic Memoirs (reference)

• The Bible: Dig a Little Deeper: A Guide to Accurately Interpreting the Word (reference)

• Acts: The Church Afire (Preaching the Word) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• La Focus On The Word (reference)

• Prepare The Word (reference)

• Share The Word (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Deliver the Word (reference)

• DOER OF THE WORD (reference)

• Rockin With Kay: I Hear the Word (reference)

• Rock The Word! From the Creators of Scripture Rock (reference)

• Spread the Word (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shown is the white button with a red rim, a red slash diagonally through the circle and the word "cancer". The button was produced by the National Coalition for Cancer Research. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Go ahead! Spread the word! You can't get AIDS from Alaska's state bird! : AIDS Isn't Spread By Mosquitos. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Photographed on 22 May 1953, as she was en route to Naval Air Station San Diego, California, following a deployment to Korean waters. Note crew paraded on the flight deck spelling out the word "HOME" and an arrow pointing over her bow. Aircraft on deck include 19 Grumman AF "Guardian" anti-submarine planes and a solitary Vought F4U "Corsair" fighter (parked amidships on the starboard side). Credit: NAVY.

Moth found trapped between points at Relay # 70, Panel F, of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator while it was being tested at Harvard University, 9 September 1945. The operators affixed the moth to the computer log, with the entry: "First actual case of bug being found". They put out the word that they had "debugged" the machine, thus introducing the term "debugging a computer program". In 1988, the log, with the moth still taped by the entry, was in the Naval Surface Warfare Center Computer Museum at Dahlgren, Virginia. Credit: NAVY.

Egyptian gods shaped as the word "LIFE" with scarab and bird. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cherubs playing around the word "Life". Credit: Library of Congress.

Waiting for the word. Credit: Library of Congress.

Help him - to live right, to fight nobly, to face peril courageously Put the word of God in his pocket - and in his heart / / Mabel Halsey Woodrow 7-18. Credit: Library of Congress.

Poster showing six instruments of torture and a bible, drawn above the word for each day of the week, and a baby sitting in a playpen. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Ulrike Meinhof" looking out of a window with the word "Landesbank" written on it and a cup with a woman's head on the window sill. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And that duty which is comprehended in the word honour, requires less obedience, though the obligation be stronger on grown, than younger children: for who can think the command, Children obey your parents, requires in a man, that has children of his own, the same submission to his father, as it does in his yet young children to him; and that by this precept he were bound to obey all his father's commands, if, out of a conceit of authority, he should have the indiscretion to treat him still as a boy? (Second Treatise of Government)

Since the proletariat must first of all acquire political supremacy, must rise to be the leading class of the nation, must constitute itself the nation, it is, so far, itself national, though not in the bourgeois sense of the word. (reference)

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage--and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The word home made his father look on him with fresh complacency.

And he looked so happy and proud at having said the word right at last, that I quite envied him.

He repeated the word.

At the terreplain of the Pont Neuf, the word (r)Redivivus was sculptured on the pedestal which awaited the statue of Henri IV.

O! In the virgin womb of the imagination the word was made flesh.

But you take back the word.

Glubbdubdrib, as nearly as I can interpret the word, signifies the Island of Sorcerers or Magicians.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The plural form of the word is glomeruli. (references)

The word tumor does not always imply cancer. (references)

The word "autism" has been in the news a lot lately. (references)

Civil Liberties

Jordan

At the request of the CHE, the most recent application contained a proposal for an expanded curriculum and a new name without the word "evangelical"--Jordan Minara University. (references)

Turkey

In January RTUK closed a Batman radio station for 90 days for playing a Kurdish song reportedly containing the word "Kurdistan." RTUK decisions may be appealed to the provincial administrative court and then to the Council of State (Danistay). (references)

Discrimination

Brazil

In September 2000, Jose Eduardo do Bernardes da Silva, a member of Amnesty International, and Roberto de Jesus, president of the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Pride Association, both received bombs in the mail with swastikas and the word "revenge" printed on the package. (references)

Economic History

New Zealand

A limited liability company must have the word "Limited" as the last word of its name. (references)

The Netherlands

The Liberal Party is "liberal" in the European, rather than American, sense of the word. (references)

Ghana

Every company with limited liability must include the word "Limited" as the last part of its name. (references)

Human Rights

Ireland

The word of a police superintendent can be used as corroborative evidence of membership. (references)

Hong Kong

In 1998 the Provisional Legislature passed the controversial Adaptation of Laws (Interpretive Provisions) Ordinance, which replaced the word "Crown" in Hong Kong legislation with the word "State" in hundreds of existing laws. (references)

Minorities

Russia

On September 24, vandals carved the Russian equivalent of the word "kikes" on the front door of the office of the Congress of Jewish Religious Organizations and Communities of Russia. (references)

Trade

Egypt

Dates are accepted in English, but the word "production" and "expiry" MUST be in Arabic. (references)

Colombia

Insecticides and other toxic products should prominently display the skull and crossbones, the word "poison" in Spanish, and information regarding usage and antidotes. (references)

Travel

Indonesia

Traditional Javanese culture emphasizes harmony and the word "no" is rarely used. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The word

Of the word

Expressions using "THE WORD": from the word go ♦ give the word ♦ in the full sense of the word ♦ in the narrowest sense of the word ♦ Interjection: shush! tush! silence! mum! hush! chut! hist! tut! chup! mum's the word ♦ keep the word ♦ mum's the word ♦ nuns of the Word Incarnate ♦ say the word ♦ suit the action to the word ♦ the word miscreant ♦ whatever the meaning of the word ♦ whence the new meaning of the word. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏إشارة البدأ (say the word), ‏أعطى الإشارة (say the word). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съгласявам се (accede to, acquiesce, agree, assent, buy, comply, concur, consent, grant, jibe, say the word, see, yield), давам сигнал за започване (say the word). (various references)

Czech

od samého poèátku (from the word go). (various references)

Danish

begrundelsen for forordningen,der indledes med formelen:ud fra følgende betragtning(er) (introduced by the word Whereas). (various references)

Dutch

woonplaats (abode, dwelling-place, dwelling-place-residence, residence), domicilie (abode, dwelling-place, residence), de motivering van de verordening,beginnend met het woord overwegende (introduced by the word Whereas). (various references)

Finnish

sanan varsinaisessa merkityksessä (in the proper sense of the word), sanan laajimmassa merkityksessä (in the broadest sense of the word), sanan ahtaammassa merkityksessä (in the strict sense of the word), sana pyörii kielelläni (the word is on the tip of my tongue), sana johtuu latinasta (the word is derived from Latin). (various references)

French

quel que soit le sens du mot (whatever the meaning of the word), la motivation du règlement commençant par le mot "considérant", donner le signe de commencement (say the word), donner le signe (say the word). (various references)

German

schreibe das Wort aus (write the word out in full). (various references)

Greek 

φτάνει να το πεισ (say the word), το σκεπτικό του κανονισμού που αρχίζει με τη λέξη "εκτιμώντας". (various references)

Hebrew 

לתת את �"אות (say the word). (various references)

Hungarian

szó teljes értelmében (in the full sense of the word), jelt ad vminek az elvégzésére (to give the word to do sg). (various references)

Italian

la motivazione del regolamento che comincia con la parola "Considerando". (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�'置法 (inversion of the word order in a sentence), 命令�'伝える (to pass the word). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

めいれい�'つたえる (to pass the word), とうちほう (inversion of the word order in a sentence). (various references)

Pig Latin

ethay ordway

Portuguese

a fundamentação do regulamento,iniciada com a palavra "Considerando". (various references)

Romanian

sst (hist, hush, mum, mum's the word, sh, silence, st), sã nu spui (mum's the word), de aici provine noul sens al cuvântului (whence the new meaning of the word), asta e cuvânt (that's the word), în toatã accepţia cuvântului (in the full sense of the word), în sensul cel mai strict al cuvântului (in the narrowest sense of the word). (various references)

Russian 

распорядиться (say the word, see about), приказать (command, order, say the word, tell), передавать приказание (pass the word). (various references)

Spanish

unir la acción a la palabra (suit the action to the word), la motivación del reglamento,empezando por la palabra "considerando", dar la señal (say the word), dar la orden (say the word). (various references)

Swedish

ordet. (various references)

Thai

พู�"ตอบรับ (say the word), อย่าเปิ�"เผยความลับ (mum's the word). (various references)

Turkish

kutsal kitap (bible, holy scripture, holy writ, scripture, the scriptures). (various references)

Ukrainian

приказати (say the word). (various references)

sermo, sermone, sermonem, sermones, sermoni, sermonibus, sermonis, sermonum, sero, vôce, verbum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: worthed.

-1 letter: dehort, trowed, whored.

-2 letters: doeth, doter, dower, horde, other, rowed, rowth, threw, throe, throw, towed, tower, trode, whore, whort, worth, wrote, wroth.

-3 letters: dhow, doer, dore, dote, doth, drew, herd, hero, hoed, hoer, howe, ohed, owed, redo, rode, rote, thew, thro, toed, tore, trod, trow, wert, whet, word, wore, wort.

-4 letters: dew, doe, dor.

+2 letters: dowitcher, handwrote, heartwood.

+3 letters: dowitchers, heartwoods, otherworld, outwhirled, threadworm, whiteboard, withholder.

+4 letters: downhearted, leatherwood, netherworld, otherworlds, threadworms, undergrowth, whiteboards, withholders.

+5 letters: creditworthy, leatherwoods, netherworlds, otherworldly, overweighted, overwithheld, overwithhold, southernwood, undergrowths, weatherboard, wholehearted, wordsmithery.