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Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.
A word is an abstract image, the imaginary thing, or, in so far as everything is ultimately an object of the thinking power, it is the imagined thought: hence men, when they know the word, the name for a thing, fancy that they know the thing also.
If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
Vocabulary spills I'm ill.
A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.
The word is a violent pleasure.
Every romantic knows that love was never a noun; it is a verb.
that word. He was twenty-eight years old and
The word "superstar" is an ilusion
A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.
You're like a dictionary. You know the word is in there, but you need to know how to spell what you want first
Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
Widow. The word consumes itself.
A sitcom. I hate that word.
Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.
I believe in love the verb, not the noun.
The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.
Atomize and refigure the word.
The soul is a verb. . . . Not a noun.
The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
What is another name for a Thesaurus?
Ah, yes. Fine. A lovely sounding word that means absolutely nothing.
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
the one Word that rips apart the day...
Okay, I should probably mention right here that Brandon used the real word, but this is my story, so I'm cleaning it up a little.
It's a darn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
He wondered what the collective noun was for psychologists: a shortage of shrinks? A confession of counsellors?
The trouble with dictionaries is, they tell you more about words than you want to know without answering the question you have.
Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.
Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective.
You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.
We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.
HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.
ATTRIBUTE, TERM, SUBJECT, PREDICATE, PARTICULAR, UNIVERSAL
charmingly useful, if any friend should happen to ask if you have ever studied Logic. Mind you bring all seven words into your answer, and you friend will go away deeply impressed
'a sadder and a wiser
1. Form the possessive singular of nouns with 's.
The Word ought to be exposed in the words
A healthy man is not an entity; he is a process, a dynamic process. Or we can say that a healthy man is not a noun but a verb, not a river but a rivering. He is continuously flowing in all dimensions, overflowing.
Use the smallest word that does the job.
There are two words for everything.Words-- E. V. Lucas
Words take on many different meanings.
Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.
The destructive potential of language is contained within the very nature of representation. Words, particularly nouns, force an infinite of unique objects and processes into a finite number of categories.
singular, familiar state of cognizance.
Net - the biggest word in the language of business.
The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.
Life is a verb, not a noun.
Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
Ah, yes, well that's the problem with the English language, isn't it? All the words mean different things.
Dictionary of Misunderstood Words
Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.
Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.
Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.
When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.
Get thee to a dictionary and be relentless about your visits there. p. 591
Lepidopterists give the noun a gerund's push toward the verb, and say that butterflies are nectaring ...
A word is a small song.
Dictionary, n. A malevolent literacy device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.
Something made out of words...
The world! It is a word capable of as diverse interpretations or misinterpretations as the thing itself a thing by various people supposed to belong to heaven, man, or the devil, or alternatively to all three.
The world is full of incomprehensible words
It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word.
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
Thankful. Blessed. Loved.
People take even greater umbrage when they hear themselves labeled with a common noun. The reason is that a noun predicate appears to pigeonhole the with a stereotype of a category rather than referring to them as an individual who happens to possess a trait.
The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon.
Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.
A guy whose name has become its own verb, and synonymous with trouble.
Strange, the Hebrew noun which means "I am", The English always use to govern damn.
All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.
Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
That which endures forever; it is released from nebulous name-giving.
A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.
Something there is in cyberspace that doesn't love an apostrophe.
Rat. A curse, an insult, a word totally without light.
A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.
Love is more than a noun-it is a verb; it is more than a feeling-it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.
Some things defy language itself.
There are objects you may desire but cannot explain. There are objects that are not nouns, there are actions that are not verbs. There are things we want that exist at the edge of the forest, at the rim of the ocean, just over the hill, just out of sight.
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
Marriage...it's not a word, it's a sentence.
A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.
Words are themselves organisms, ...
Love is a verb; an action word. Its not a noun or an adjective.
Sometimes you linger days
upon a word,
a single, uncontaminated drop
of sound; for days
it trembles, liquid to the mind,
then falls:
mere denotation
dimming the undertow of language.
A word is a magic thing. It holds the essence of an object or idea and pins it to the world. A word can set a universe in motion.
Everyone uses their own dictionary.
A word is a lot.
You do not find knowledge in a dictionary, only information.
Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.
Don't hate the word, playa; hate the dictionary.
We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.
When you catch an adjective, kill it.
Don't repeat this word again
So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.
Don't try to defile the English language. I can think of a few other things I'd rather dirty up.
Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. You say:;: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.
Words Are The Ones Used To Degrade And Demean Another Human Being
I think the word is adult!