单词 | verbal |
释义 | verbal I. ver·bal 1. a. < the most painstaking and elaborate verbal artist among the … poets of today — H.M.Green > b. < a merely verbal writer who sacrifices content to sound > c. obsolete < you put me to forget a lady's manners by being so verbal — Shakespeare > 2. a. < few poets of the twentieth century have written verbal music with deeper sensibility — H.V.Gregory > < a table of proportional dimensions for various widths is reproduced, and detailed verbal instructions are given — Experiment Station Record > b. < a consistency that is merely verbal and scholastic — B.N.Cardozo > < an outward conformity with its precepts and a verbal profession of its tenets — J.G.Frazer > c. < confined himself to a mere verbal protest > 3. < occurs not less than ten times (eight times as a noun and twice in its verbal form) — Lutheran Quarterly > < a verbal adjective > 4. < invitations to them may be verbal or by way of a short, informal note — Noreen Routledge > < the employer's consent, verbal or written — Jacob Loft > 5. < a verbal translation > 6. a. < verbal aptitude > < the verbal factor of a test > — compare numerical 1e b. < verbal communication > < verbal arts > 7. a. < the verbal IQ > b. • ver·bal·ly II. verb·al |
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