fielder's choice | a play made on a ground ball in which the fielder chooses to put out an advancing runner instead of the batter |
choice selection option pick | the act of choosing or selecting, your choice of colors was unfortunate, you can take your pick |
sailor'shoice sailors choice Haemulon parra | a grunt found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico |
method of choice | the best method to achieve a desired result |
choice pick selection | the person or thing chosen or selected, he was my pick for mayor |
option alternative choice | one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen, what option did I have?, there no other alternative, my only choice is to refuse |
Hobson's choice | the choice of taking what is offered or nothing at all |
words | language that is spoken or written, he has a gift for words, she put her thoughts into words |
palaver hot air empty words empty talk rhetoric | loud and confused and empty talk, mere rhetoric |
actor's line speech words | words making up the dialogue of a play, the actor forgot his speech |
string of words word string linguistic string | a linear sequence of words as spoken or written |
lyric words language | the text of a popular song or musicalomedy number, his compositions always started with the lyrics, he wrote both words and music, the song uses colloquial language |
wording diction phrasing phraseology choice of words verbiage | the manner in which something is expressed in words, use concise military verbiage- G.S.Patton |
words | the words that are spoken, I listened to his words very closely |
enunciation diction | the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience |
wind malarkey malarky idle words jazz nothingness | empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk, that's a lot of wind, don't give me any of that jazz |
sweet nothings honeyed words | inconsequential expressions of affection, he whispered sweet nothings into her ear |
quarrel wrangle row words run-in dustup | an angry dispute, they had a quarrel, they had words |
choice morsel tidbit titbit | a small tasty bit of food |
words per minute wpm | the rate at which words are produced (as in speaking or typing) |
call on the carpet take to task rebuke rag trounce reproof lecture reprimand jaw dress down call down scold chide berate bawl out remonstrate chew out chew up have words lambaste lambast dcc | censure severely or angrily, The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car, The deputy ragged the Prime Minister, The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup |
multiple-choice | offering several alternative answers from which the correct one is to be chosen, or consisting of such questions, multiple-choice questions, a multiple-choice test |
choice prime(a) prize quality select | of superior grade, choice wines, prime beef, prize carnations, quality paper, select peaches |
choice | appealing to refined taste, choice wine |
pro-choice | advocating a woman's right to control her own body (especially her right to an induced abortion) |
intentionally deliberately designedly on purpose purposely advisedly by choice by design | with intention, in an intentional manner, he used that word intentionally, I did this by choice |
in other words put differently | otherwise stated, in other words, we are broke |