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Part of a word responsible for its lexical meaning
In linguistics, a word stem is a word part responsible for a word's lexical meaning. The term is used with slightly different meanings depending on the
Word_stem
Process of reducing words to word stems
retrieval, stemming is the process of reducing inflected (or sometimes derived) words to their word stem, base or root form—generally a written word form.
Stemming
Morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word
linguistics, an affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form. The two main categories are derivational and inflectional
Affix
Basic elements of language
grammatical information to a word, such as indicating case, tense, or gender. In synthetic languages, a single word stem (for example, love) may inflect
Word
Word in the Turkish language
allows the construction of words by adding many suffixes to a word stem. The longest word in the Turkish language used in a text is
Longest_word_in_Turkish
Topics referred to by the same term
plant STEM, an acronym for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics "Stem," "stem," or "STEM" can also refer to: Word stem, part of a word responsible
Stem
Ancestor of the Baltic languages
ablaut, retaining *m before dental consonants, the productivity of the word stem ē and free accentuation with two pitch accents. Also, the proto-language
Proto-Baltic_language
Self-designation used by ancient Indo-Iranian peoples
homeland. The word stem also forms the etymological source of place names like Alania (*Aryāna) and Iran (*Aryānām). Although the stem *arya may originate
Aryan
Affix inserted inside a word stem
a word stem (an existing word or the core of a family of words). It contrasts with adfix, a rare term for an affix attached to the outside of a stem, such
Infix
Letter of the Latin alphabet; used in the German language
consonant in the word stem: Straße, Maß, groß, heißen [Exceptions: aus and words with final devoicing (e.g., Haus)]; and when a word stem ending with ⟨ß⟩
ß
Common word that search engines avoid indexing to save time and space
list which was not based on word frequency information. The "Van list" included 250 English words. Martin Porter's word stemming program developed in the
Stop_word
wŏnsu |wɔn.su|. While the general rule is to write out the word stem from which the compound word is formed in its original form, but in cases where the etymological
North–South differences in the Korean language
North–South_differences_in_the_Korean_language
Alleged impact on behavior
example of perceptual priming is the identification of an incomplete word in a word-stem completion test. The presentation of the visual prime does not have
Priming_(psychology)
Kipchak Turkic language
harmony. Kazakh builds words by adding suffixes one after another to the word stem, with each suffix expressing only one unique meaning and following a fixed
Kazakh_language
Lexical core of a word without affixes
(2023). "Levels of Analysis and Word Classes (Root, Stem, Word)". In van Lier, Eva (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes. Oxford University Press
Root_(linguistics)
Affix which is placed before the stem of a word
A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem and before the suffix of a word. Particularly in the study of languages, a prefix is also called a
Prefix
Item in Greek mythology
treating the word as meaning "something grammatically feminine pertaining to goat": Greek αἴξ aix (stem αἰγ- aig-) = "goat" + suffix -ίς -is (stem -ίδ- -id-)
Aegis
Ancestor of the Indo-European languages
consonant as well. A root plus a suffix formed a word stem, and a word stem plus an inflectional ending formed a word. Proto-Indo-European was a fusional language
Proto-Indo-European_language
Extinct Semitic language of Mesopotamia
means of a plural ending. Broken plurals are not formed by changing the word stem. As in all Semitic languages, some masculine nouns take the prototypically
Akkadian_language
Writing system
with those of the preceding word stem. Such suffixes are written with front or neutral vowels when preceded by a word stem containing only neutral vowels
Mongolian_script
Grammatical phenomenon
English can apply not only to words but also to multi-word phrases such as idioms, or to word stems without their inflectional morphemes. I talked to him
Contrastive focus reduplication
Contrastive_focus_reduplication
Type of psychological experiment
association test, the lexical decision task, the word stem completion task, artificial grammar learning, word fragment completion, and the serial reaction
Indirect_tests_of_memory
Abundance of financial assets or possessions
core meaning as held in the originating Old English word weal, which is from the Indo-European word stem, wel-, meaning "to wish" or "good". The modern concept
Wealth
Abbreviated symbolic writing method
taught shorthand writing. Hellenistic tachygraphy consisted of word stem signs and word ending signs. Over time, many syllabic signs were developed. In
Shorthand
Uralic language spoken in Russia
The rules of vowel harmony are as follows: If the final syllable of the word stem contains a front vowel, the front form of the suffix is used: веле (veĺe)
Erzya_language
Topics referred to by the same term
or passage of text Word stem, a part of a word used with slightly different meanings Word (surname), people with the surname "Word" This disambiguation
Word_(disambiguation)
Two-player paper-and-pencil word game
this ever-growing word stem. Any word-stem a player creates must form part of a valid English word, without actually being a word itself. The first player
Superghost_(game)
De facto standard dialect of Mongolian
demonstratives based on the word stem ʉː/n- (except for the nominative in [i̠n] and the accusative which takes the stem ʉːn-) and thus exhibits the same
Khalkha_Mongolian
Umbrella term for technical disciplines
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is an umbrella term used to group together the related technical disciplines of science, technology
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
Science,_technology,_engineering,_and_mathematics
Aspect of Christian Reformed theology
of which have names with the Latin root lapsus (meaning fall), and the word stem (a type of root) -lapsarianism. Supralapsarianism and infralapsarianism
Logical order of God's decrees
Logical_order_of_God's_decrees
Language sound system
range of contrastive consonants is found only at the beginning of word stems. In stem-final position and in prefixes, the number of contrasts is drastically
Navajo_phonology
Medical condition
lipopigments are made up of fats and proteins. Their name comes from the word stem "lipo-", which is a variation on lipid, and from the term "pigment", used
Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
Neuronal_ceroid_lipofuscinosis
Category of words in Proto-Indo-European
multiple different declensions. Most of them had word stems ending in a consonant (called athematic stems) and exhibited a complex pattern of accent shifts
Proto-Indo-European_nominals
suffixes to indicate grammatical information. Ojibwe word stems are formed with combinations of word roots (sometimes also called initials), and affixes
Ottawa_morphology
Reminding a customer to pay
issue firm reminders and to take all allowable collection options. The word stems from the 17th-century verb dun, meaning to demand payment of a debt. Collection
Dunning_(process)
Ndu language spoken in Papua New Guinea
in Ambulas are roots, although some word-stems are reduplicated, compounded, or derived. In Ambulas, compound stems occur within nouns (including temporal
Ambulas_language
Inuit-based pidgin of Canada
neighboring areas of the eastern Arctic. It consisted of uninflected Inuktitut word stems arranged in an English SVO order. Thus for Inuit takuvagit "I see you"
Inuktitut-English_Pidgin
Moribund Samoyedic language spoken by Enets people
member of these constructions is either an independent word stem si- or a postpositional stem no-. The first member may be absent. Reflexive pronouns
Enets_language
Algonquian dialects of Quebec, Canada
suffix} stem stem inflection She/he/it goes slow. Words constructed by secondary derivation, are made up of core word stems and at least one other stem-building
East_Cree
Language of ancient Minoans written in Cretan hieroglyphs and Linear A syllabary
numeral representing the sum of the tallies in the list. Similarly, the word stem 𐘚𐝥 (I-*301) is believed to mean "to give" or "to dedicate" based on
Minoan_language
Lexeme (word or sign) that consists of more than one stem
precisely, a word or sign) that consists of more than one stem. Compounding, composition or nominal composition is the process of word formation that
Compound_(linguistics)
Unspecialized biological cell that can become specialized
In multicellular organisms, stem cells are undifferentiated or partially differentiated cells that can change into various types of cells and proliferate
Stem_cell
Smallest meaningful unit in a language
morpheme, but stems can be composed of more than one morpheme. Any additional affixes are considered morphemes. For example, in the word quirkiness, the
Morpheme
Irish accent
Munster only as an English word. A famous false etymology states that the word stems from the supposed perception that the Irish spoke English so peculiarly
Brogue_(accent)
Indo-European language native to the Indian subcontinent
India who were familiar with both. A large part of Pali and Sanskrit word-stems are identical in form, differing only in details of inflection. Technical
Pali
Turkic language
e-type vowel harmony) means that in the environment where the vowel in the word stem is formed in the front of the mouth, the suffix will take the e-form,
Turkish_language
Term for the formal dress and (rarely) responsibilities of a monarch
sovereign, but now it also refers to any type of elaborate formal dress. The word stems from the Latin substantivation of the adjective regalis, "regal", itself
Regalia
Aspect of Sanskrit grammar
Long-vowel stems ā-stems ī/ū-stems Diphthong stems Consonant stems Bare stems (root-stems) as/is/us-stems an/in-stems ant/mant/vant-stems (present active
Sanskrit_nominals
North Germanic language
Reconstructed as [ɹ̠˔] when part of the stem of a word, with a voiceless allophone [ɹ̠̊˔] word-finally when not part of the stem. The pronunciation of ⟨hv⟩ is unclear
Old_Norse
Root word of a set of word forms
the word that never changes even when morphologically inflected; a lemma is the least marked form of the word. In linguistic analysis, the stem is defined
Lemma_(morphology)
Language that uses pitch changes for accent
prominence peaks tend to occur at or near morpheme edges (word/stem initial, word/stem penult, word/stem final). Often, however, the difference between a pitch-accent
Pitch-accent_language
Official language of the country of Georgia
(megobØrebi) means 'friends', with the loss of a in the last syllable of the word stem. Georgian has seven noun cases: nominative, ergative, dative, genitive
Georgian_language
lies along the folded radicle in the seed. -aceae Suffix added to the word stem of a generic name to form the name of a taxonomic family; for example
Glossary_of_botanical_terms
Grammatical construction in the English language
limited success. Privative, a particle that inverts the meaning of the word stem to which it is affixed. "Definition of NOT". Telluride (April 10, 1918)
..._Not!
Indo-Aryan language
of classical Sanskrit. Amongst nouns, the tatsam word could be the Sanskrit non-inflected word-stem, or it could be the nominative singular form in the
Hindi
Notoriety gained from a negative incident or reputation
used in both secular and canon law in Europe since ancient times. The word stems from the Latin infamia. It derives from the Negation in + fame which implies
Infamy
Naming scheme for assigning generic, or nonproprietary, names to monoclonal antibodies
the stem -mab; newer names have different stems. Unlike most other pharmaceuticals, monoclonal antibody nomenclature uses different preceding word parts
Nomenclature of monoclonal antibodies
Nomenclature_of_monoclonal_antibodies
aspect of 'lexical richness' and refers to the ratio of different unique word stems (types) to the total number of words (tokens). The term is used in applied
Lexical_diversity
Type of loan
the Latin prefix "re" (back, again but also against, against) and the word stem "financing" (Latin financia, "payment") and is a deverbal derivative.
Cash_out_refinancing
Most widely spoken of all Sámi languages
found in the Finnic languages. A word stem can appear in two grades: the strong grade and the weak grade. A given word can alternate either between quantity
Northern_Sámi
Language component
note that stem-final -b- /β/ and -d- /ð/ change spelling and pronunciation to become -f /ɸ/ and -þ /θ/ respectively at the end of a word. Stem final -g-
Gothic_verbs
Sound change within a word that indicates grammatical information
mutation, alternation, internal modification, stem modification, stem alternation, replacive morphology, stem mutation, or internal inflection. Apophony
Apophony
Experimental constructed language
variety of the Stem 2 of the three other possible stems from k-l. Translating roughly as "a meaningful unit of speech", i.e. "a word", it gave no emphasis
Ithkuil
Castle, museum and restaurant in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria
(1,570 ft) above sea level.[1]. Its name is assumedly derived from the word stem "schatte, schad" meaning "protection, shield". Hugo I. of Montfort, founder
Schattenburg
Vestment generally worn by Roman Catholic and Anglican bishops
gathered at the wrists and nearly as long as the underlying cassock. The word stems from the Latin rochettum (from the Late Latin roccus, connected to the
Rochet
Overview of and topical guide to natural language processing
recognition and typically grouped with it. Stemming – reduces an inflected or derived word into its word stem, base, or root form. Text chunking – Tokenization
Outline of natural language processing
Outline_of_natural_language_processing
Official language of Mongolia
word stem is /i/, the suffixes will use the +ATR suffix forms. Mongolian also has rounding harmony, which does not apply to close vowels. If a stem contains
Mongolian_language
Aspect of Czech grammar
the word-stem. In imperative, 0/-te/-me endings are in most verbs, -i/-ete/-eme or -i/-ěte/-ěme if two consonants are at the end of the word-stem. Irregular
Czech_conjugation
Undeciphered writing system of ancient Crete
numeral representing the sum of the tallies in the list. Similarly, the word stem 𐘚𐝥 (I-*301) is believed to mean "to give" or "to dedicate" based on
Linear_A
The stem of the Word catheter is latex. It is named for Samuel Buford Word. Chen, Katherine T. (2019). "Bartholin gland cyst and abscess: Word catheter
Word_catheter
Word derivation rule in Proto-Indo-European
zero-ablaut ro-stems (i.e., word stems ending in *-rós), u-stems, or amphikinetic nt-stems. Adjectives are sometimes formed using i-stems, especially in
Caland_system
Island in the Baltic Sea
and probably far-, which is a word stem associated with travel like in the Swedish verb fara ('to travel'). The word Fårö likely means 'the island one
Fårö
Chakavian sound law
nominative form onto the oblique cases, infinitive on other verbal forms, word stem onto derivations etc. Thus no or extremely little alternation occurs throughout
Jakubinskij's_law
Memory phenomenon
including recall using only category cues, recall using category and word stems, and recognition tests. The effect has been produced using many different
Retrieval-induced_forgetting
English language suffix
beer"). As with other classical compounds, adding the suffix to an initial word-stem derived from Greek or Latin may be used to lend grandeur or the impression
-logy
Proto-language of all the Slavic languages
the "stem" includes any morphological suffixes (e.g. a diminutive suffix), but not generally on the inflectional suffix that indicates the word class
Proto-Slavic_language
Name list
dithematic name, meaning it is composed of two semantically unrelated word stems, in this case the Old High German waron ('to protect/preserve/uphold')
Werner_(name)
Characteristic of the Finnish language
gradation does not apply. By contrast, the stem pappi- and nominative plural suffix -t would form a word with two adjacent closed syllables (the ungrammatical
Finnish_consonant_gradation
Suffixes forming insults in various languages
pejorative suffix is a suffix that attaches a negative meaning to the word or word-stem preceding it. There is frequent overlap between this and the diminutive
Pejorative_suffix
Study of words and their formation
outputs a derived stem; a compounding rule takes word forms, and similarly outputs a compound stem. Word-based morphology is (usually) a word-and-paradigm
Morphology_(linguistics)
Unit of lexical meaning
Lexical word vs. grammatical word Marker (linguistics) Multiword expression Null morpheme Root (linguistics) Stem Syntagma (linguistics) Word family RUN
Lexeme
Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon
Mungbam. Attested syllable types vary between stem-initial and non-stem-initial syllables. Word stems in Mungbam can either be monosyllabic or disyllabic
Mungbam_language
Upper social class
Etymologically, as the word developed, it also produced a more political term: aristoi (ἄριστοι). The term aristocracy is a compound word stemming from the singular
Aristocracy_(class)
Longest words in various languages
Artturi Kannisto. The longest non-compound (a single stem with prefixes and suffixes) Finnish word recognised by the Guinness Book of Records is
Longest_words
Extinct language of North America
inserted word-initially in words that would otherwise begin with a vowel. If a word stem ends in a vowel and a suffix immediately following the stem begins
Wappo_language
Dravidian language
changed to conform to Malayalam norms: Masculine Sanskrit nouns with a word stem ending in a short /a/ take the ending /an/ in the nominative singular
Malayalam
Icelandic alphabet and spelling
reform, the letter Z in Icelandic was restricted to the middle or end of word stems to represent specific historical consonant collapses. Consequently, native
Icelandic_orthography
Ancestor of the Germanic languages
alternations of sounds known as grammatischer Wechsel. For a single word, the grammatical stem could display different consonants depending on its grammatical
Proto-Germanic_language
Title used by Ante Pavelić
is in turn a compound of the Croatian prefix po- and the Proto-Slavic word stem glava 'head'. Because it was used by the fascist regime, the title (which
Poglavnik
Ancestor of the Uralic languages
It is reconstructed by certain scholars in syllable-final position in word-stems where a contrastive long vowel later developed (similar to Turkish ğ)
Proto-Uralic_language
Branch of the Indo-European language family
stop /ld/ (except word-finally). West Germanic gemination of consonants, except r, before /j/. This only occurred in short-stemmed words due to Sievers'
Germanic_languages
Identification of constituent elements
stems, inflections, etc.) and then interpreted and; third, the view that whole-word and decomposition models are both used, but that the whole-word model
Speech_segmentation
Icelandic greeting
verb heal of the same meaning (originally "to make whole"), stemming from the Germanic word stem *haila-, from which also the German verb heilen and the adjective
Heil_og_sæl
Humanoid race in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium
according to the Tolkien scholar John D. Rateliff, their warlike nature stems from accounts in the Hebrew Bible. Medieval views of Jews also saw them
Dwarves_in_Middle-earth
Reconstructed ancestor of the Afroasiatic language family
initial and final consonant clusters. Christopher Ehret argues that all word stems in PAA took the shape CV (with a possible alternate form VC) and CVC,
Proto-Afroasiatic_language
Special character in text processing
Unicode 3.0 for Mongolian, to separate a suffix from the word stem without indicating a word boundary. It also triggers special shaping of those suffixes
Non-breaking_space
Bantu language of Uganda
gender and number and is indicated with prefixes attached to the start of word stems. The following parts of speech agree with nouns in class and number: adjective
Luganda
Grammatical rules of the Vedic Sanskrit language
consonant or vowel of the uninflected word-stem, there are internal sandhi rules dictating the form of the inflected word. Furthermore, these are standalone
Vedic_Sanskrit_grammar
Trans–New Guinea language spoken in Papua New Guinea
Daga, word stems are the part of the word that gives the word meaning. Compound word stems are often a verb stem followed by a combination of the verb
Daga_language
Greek language word subclass
vocalic verbs, are those verbs of the Greek language that have their word stem ending in a vowel (monophthong or diphthong). The Greek pure verbs can
Pure_verbs
WORD STEM
WORD STEM
Male
English
Short form of English Gordon, GORD means "spacious fort."
Girl/Female
Shakespearean
The Merry Wives of Windsor' Mistress Ford.
Surname or Lastname
Scottish
Scottish : habitational name from the lands of Work in the parish of St. Ola, Orkney.English : from Old English (ge)weorc ‘work’, ‘fortification’, hence probably a topographic name or an occupational name for someone who worked on fortifications or at a fort.Danish : habitational name from a place so called.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Herd.Respelling of Swedish HÃ¥rd (see Hard 2).
Surname or Lastname
Norwegian
Norwegian : variant spelling of Vold (see Voll).English : topographic name for someone who lived on any of the areas of open upland known from Middle English times onwards as wolds (e.g. the Yorkshire Wolds or the Cotswolds). This term derives from Old English wald ‘forest’ (see Wald). After the extensive clearance of forests in England, from before the Norman Conquest onward, the Old English term wald came to denote open uplands (wolds) in Middle English in certain areas of England.
Female
Scandinavian
Short form of Scandinavian Tordis, TORD means "Thor's goddess" or "Thor's woman."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from the vocabulary word lord, presumably for someone who behaved in a lordly manner, or perhaps one who had earned the title in some contest of skill or had played the part of the ‘Lord of Misrule’ in the Yuletide festivities. It may also have been an occupational name for a servant in the household of the lord of the manor, or possibly a status name for a landlord or the lord of the manor himself. The word itself derives from Old English hlÄford, earlier hlÄf-weard, literally ‘loaf-keeper’, since the lord or chief of a clan was responsible for providing food for his dependants.Irish : English name adopted as a translation of the main element of Gaelic Ó Tighearnaigh (see Tierney) and Mac Thighearnáin (see McKiernan).French : nickname from Old French l’ord ‘the dirty one’.Possibly an altered spelling of Laur.The French name is particularly associated with Acadia in Canada, around 1760.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Old English weard ‘guard’ (used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).Irish : reduced form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.Surname adopted by bearers of the Jewish surname Warshawski, Warshawsky or some other Jewish name bearing some similarity to the English name.Americanized form of French Guerin.The surname Ward was brought to North America from England independently by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Nathaniel Ward (1578–1652), author of the MA legal code, was born in Haverhill, Suffolk, England, and emigrated to Agawam (Ipswich, MA) in 1633. William Ward was one of the original settlers of Sudbury, MA, in about 1638. Miles Ward came from England to Salem, MA, in about 1639. Thomas Ward (d. 1689) settled in Newport, RI, in 1671; among his descendants were two governors of colonial RI.
Boy/Male
Teutonic American English Irish
Guard.
Surname or Lastname
English (Northumbria) and Scottish
English (Northumbria) and Scottish : habitational name from East Ord in Northumberland, named with Old English ord ‘point’. Compare Ort 3.English : from a Germanic personal name (see Ort 2).Scottish : habitational name from various minor places named with Gaelic ord ‘hammer’, used as a topographical term for a rounded hill.
Surname or Lastname
German and Danish
German and Danish : variant of Wurm.English : nickname from Middle English wurm ‘serpent’, ‘dragon’ (Old English wyrm).
Boy/Male
Muslim
Blossoms, Flowers
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained.
Boy/Male
American, British, Danish, English, Finnish, German, Swedish
Bold Adviser; Wise; Courageous Advice; Cord Maker; Wise Counsel; Honest Adviser; Surname
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood or a metonymic occupational name for a woodcutter or forester, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu).English and Scottish : nickname for a mad, eccentric, or violent person, from Middle English wÅd ‘mad’, ‘frenzied’ (Old English wÄd), as in Adam le Wode, Worcestershire 1221.
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, from the Old English word ford, FORD means "ford, river crossing."
Surname or Lastname
German (Wörl)
German (Wörl) : variant of Wehrle.English : perhaps a habitational name for someone from Worle in Somerset, which is most probably named with Old English wÅr ‘wood grouse’ + lÄ“ah ‘wood’, ‘(woodland) clearing’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived near a ford, Middle English, Old English ford, or a habitational name from one of the many places named with this word, such as Ford in Northumberland, Shropshire, and West Sussex, or Forde in Dorset.Irish : Anglicized form (quasi-translation) of various Gaelic names, for example Mac Giolla na Naomh ‘son of Gilla na Naomh’ (a personal name meaning ‘servant of the saints’), Mac Conshámha ‘son of Conshnámha’ (a personal name composed of the elements con ‘dog’ + snámh ‘to swim’), in all of which the final syllable was wrongly thought to be áth ‘ford’, and Ó Fuar(th)áin (see Foran).Jewish : Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.Translation of German Fürth (see Furth).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained; perhaps a variant of Gourd.
Male
English
 English occupational surname transferred to forename use, derived from Old English weard, WARD means "guard, watchman."Â
WORD STEM
WORD STEM
Girl/Female
Bengali, Indian
Who is Lover of God.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Heaven, Sky
Girl/Female
Bangladeshi, Hindu, Indian
Divine
Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
Generosity dew
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Sister of Parvathi; Wife of Sage Asita
Girl/Female
Indian
Loyal
Boy/Male
English
Lives at the fortress.
Girl/Female
German
Peaceful Victory
Boy/Male
Hindu
The egoless, Humble
Girl/Female
Australian, Czechoslovakian, Latin
Small
WORD STEM
WORD STEM
WORD STEM
WORD STEM
WORD STEM
v. t.
To flatter with words; to cajole.
v. t.
To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words.
v. t.
To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
n.
See Wood worm, under Wood.
adv.
With close adherence to words; word by word.
superl.
Using many words; verbose; as, a wordy speaker.
v. i.
To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
a.
Respecting words; full of words; wordy.
v. i.
To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.
n.
One who cavils at words.
superl.
Of or pertaining to words; consisting of words; verbal; as, a wordy war.
superl.
Containing many words; full of words.
v. t.
To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth.
v. t.
To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.
n.
Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm
n.
The word or words governed.
n.
A wood; a forest.
n.
Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.
v. t.
To express in words; to phrase.
n.
A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc.