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 |
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 |
rash blizzard | a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences, a rash of bank robberies, a blizzard of lawsuits |
diaper rash diaper dermatitis | dermatitis of the thighs and buttocks of infants, supposedly caused by ammonia in the urine in the child's diapers |
rash roseola efflorescence skin rash | any red eruption of the skin |
prickly heat heat rash miliaria | obstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity |
urtication urticaria hives nettle rash | an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins, usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs |
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 |
foolhardy heady rash reckles | marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences, foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker, became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans-Macaulay, a reckless driver, a rash attempt to climb Mount Everest |
rash | imprudently incurring risk, do something rash that he will forever repent- George Meredith |
in other words put differently | otherwise stated, in other words, we are broke |