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In exactly the words used
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verbatim
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Word definitions for verbatim in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Verbatim \Ver*ba"tim\, adv. [LL., fr. L. verbum word.] Word for word; in the same words; verbally; as, to tell a story verbatim as another has related it. Verbatim et literatim [LL.], word for word, and letter for letter.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Medieval Latin verbatim "word for word," from Latin verbum "word" (see verb ). As an adjective from 1737.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a document English) correspond with the original word for word. 2 (context of a person English) able to take down a speech word for word, especially in shorthand. adv. Word for word; in exactly the same words as were used originally. n. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker; "a direct quotation"; "repeated their dialog verbatim" [syn: direct ] adv. using exactly the same words; "he repeated her remarks verbatim" [syn: word for word ]
Usage examples of verbatim.
Second Life of Celano, we see that the latter has often borrowed verbatim from Brother Leo, but generally he has considerably abridged the passages, adding reflections here and there, especially retouching the style to make it more elegant.
Grandfather, it seems, had once studied with the aim of becoming a chemist, and had put all his knowledge of a certain side of chemistry into this work, which knowledge Steevens had copied almost verbatim.
He asked her what she knew about hyperspace, and her answers were almost verbatim what the kzinti automanual said.
All Bill wanted to do was perform the censored set verbatim for as many live audiences as possible.
Their first line of attack was the sophisticated communications technology that allowed them to listen verbatim to the interbank conversations carried on between Cerberus and its computer brethren around the world.
I filled her in on our latest day of detective work, our disappointing meeting with Ruskin and Sikes, and she told us about her day at the hospital, even some verbatims from her off-service notes.
That I'm a continentally ranked junior tennis player who can also recite great chunks of the dictionary, verbatim, at will, and tends to get beat up, and wears a bow tie?
I am thankful that he reproduced the old-timers' tales verbatim, capturing those sound-licking idioms and image-drenched similes that gave Western speech its unique piquancy, before it fell victim to television's anemic homogenizing of our culture.
I will quote the following account of the star Nova Persei verbatim from the pages of that eminent astronomical authority, Professor Garrett P.
The story contained a verbatim transcript of a radio conversation between Admiral Lewis and Captain Grafton that had been recorded by a ham radio operator in Clearwater, Florida, a retired railroad engineer.
He requestions me on many details, and then asks that certain points be repeated verbatim for clarity.
I gave it verbatim only in spots, the few that might have a bearing, thinking it unnecessary for him to know that she had asked me if I realized it was a bed, or that I had called her snuggle bunny.
The skeleton dimensions I shall now proceed to set down are copied verbatim from my right arm, where I had them tattooed.
Honour, with which we shall present the reader verbatim et literatim.
Dosages of Haldol and Stelazine, intake-interview observations, milieu-therapy encounters, verbatims of his delusional ramblings, psychopharmacolo-gists' and social workers' reports .