单词 | verbalize |
释义 | verbalizev. 1. a. intransitive. Originally: to use many words; to talk diffusely or at length; to be verbose. Later also more generally: to talk, speak. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > be copious [verb (intransitive)] > be verbose verbalize1609 over-worda1656 tootle1883 1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man Ded. p. vii Verbalize he can, dispute he cannot. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck App. Verbaliseren, to Verbalize, or make a speech. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Verbalize, to be tedious in Discourse, to make many Words. 1889 J. M. Robertson Ess. Crit. Method 130 Mr. Lowell verbalizes as to Duty being an eternal harmony. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 June 390/1 The New York sub-intellectual who..drinks too much, talks (or, as he would say, ‘verbalises’) much too much, and wonders why he is unhappy. 2008 J. Spiller Cosmic Love 204 Initially, in a relationship encourage the native not to verbalize too much about their values and needs. b. transitive. To express, convey, or describe in words, esp. aloud; to put into words.Now the main sense. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > give expression to sayOE talkc1275 soundc1386 outc1390 shedc1420 utterc1445 conveya1568 discharge1586 vent1602 dicta1605 frame1608 voice1612 pass?1614 language1628 ventilate1637 to give venta1640 vend1657 clothe1671 to take out1692 to give mouth to1825 verbalize1840 to let out1853 vocalize1872 1840 Age 13 Dec. 398/3 To describe him is beyond our pen..—Harley and Keeley alone could verbalize him! 1875 D. Greenwell Liber Human. 42 The man of the world, whose creed has been thus..verbalized, ‘There's nothing new, and nothing true, and it's no matter’. 1950 Dis. Nerv. Syst. 11 241/1 Patients were able to verbalize the repressed components of their conflicts during a toxic delirium. 1974 J. C. Masters & J. R. Mokros in H. W. Reese Adv. Child Devel. & Behaviour IX. 172 Children who verbalized that the task was easy persisted longer than children who verbalized that it was difficult. 2001 Skin & Ink May 70/2 Most of our flash is from Corey Miller and Eddy Deutsche, and we use that as a springboard so our customers can verbalize what they want. c. transitive. Psychology. To register mentally (a stimulus, thought, etc.) in verbal terms rather than as visual images. Also intransitive. Usually contrasted with visualize v. 1 or image v. 1a . Cf. verbalizer n. 2a. ΚΠ 1886 E. Gurney et al. Phantasms of Living II. 23 It is more natural..to visualise it,..than to verbalise it in some imagined or remembered phrase. 1911 Jrnl. Educ. Psychol. 2 20 G, the best observer, is the one who visualizes least, and V, ordinarily visual, reports a slight tendency to verbalize more. 1961 A. N. Frandsen Educ. Psychol. ix. 312 The procedure most frequently employed was to verbalize the discovered pattern as a guide to memorizing it. 1971 Psychonomic Sci. 25 July 93/3 It is not clear to the writer why instructions to image result in incidental verbal storage, while instructions to verbalize do not lead to incidental storage of images. 2004 M. Anderson in R. J. Sternberg & J. E. Pretz Cognition & Intelligence (2005) xiv. 279 Thoughtful problem solving can be done either by verbalizing a problem (using language-like propositions to think) or by visualizing it (using visuo-spatial representations to think). 2. transitive. To convert (a word, esp. a noun) into a verb; = verbify v. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > convert into a verb [verb (transitive)] verbalize1658 verbify1820 verb1928 1658 T. St. Serfe tr. M. de Marmet Entertainments of Cours 83 We must follow the Maxims of Novelty, which these pretended fine speakers practice, by Verbalizing the Nouns, and Nounnizing [sic] the Verbs. ?1768 R. Jones Postscript to Origin of Lang. & Nations 6 Verbalize or actuate the nouns only with the few original verbs, without multiplying grammatical rules. 1818 Q. Rev. 19 207 To supply the place of the nouns thus verbalized Mr. Keats, with great fecundity, spawns new ones. 1860 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. viii. 173 English no longer exercises..the protean gift of transformation, which could at pleasure verbalize a noun. 1946 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 12 76/1 An interrogative pronoun is first verbalized and then the verb is substantivized. 2013 Anthropol. Linguistics 55 292 The [suffix] -oa..verbalizes nouns: from tlaxcalli ‘tortilla’ is formed tlaxcaloa ‘to make tortillas’. Derivatives ˈverbalizing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > verbose > of persons wordyeOE windy1513 verbose?1530 verbous1645 verbalizing1647 1647 Moro-mastix 6 We lay the brat of verbalizing at your own door, your ordinary proportion is a drop of truth to a sea of words. ?1768 R. Jones Postscript to Origin of Lang. & Nations 31 The general verbalizing and actuating particles to be added to nouns. 1869 W. G. T. Shedd Homiletics vi. 133 If the formation of the plan is merely a verbalizing process. 1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. iv. 48 A burst unnoticed in the incessantly verbalizing buzz of a continental supper-table. 1962 A. Huxley Let. 18 Sept. (1969) 939 Mescalin, LSD and psilocybin all produce a state of affairs in which verbalizing and conceptualizing are in some sort bypassed. 2013 Oceanic Linguistics 52 334 Savosavo has three different ways of deriving verbs from nouns: the verbalizing suffix -sa, reduplication, and conversion. ˈverbalized adj. ΚΠ 1843 Liberator (Boston) 21 July The Reformation is an existent thing, idealized, verbalized, factitious. 1931 Morning Herald (Hagerstown, Maryland) 11 July 5/4 White Cloud hisself performs such super-equestrian feats as obeying the verbalized wishes of a bareback rider. 1954 L. R. Wolberg Technique of Psychotherapy xxii. 229 Obtain an understanding..of the dynamics of the patient's problem from his verbalized complaints, his past history, and his reported present relationships. 2010 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 11 Mar. (Opinion section) 13 There were verbalized emotions, such as the vice president's comment to President Shimon Peres that Israel ‘captured my heart’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1609 |
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