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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verbal
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a verbal agreement (=agreed in words, but not written down)
▪ The doctor needs to have a verbal agreement from the patient.
a verbal exchange (=spoken rather than written)
▪ The two boxers recently became involved in a heated verbal exchange.
verbal abuse
▪ vandalism and verbal abuse directed at old people
verbal communication (=with words)
▪ This activity is designed to improve students' verbal communication skills.
verbal consent (=spoken consent)
▪ He gave his verbal consent to have the interview taped.
verbal dexterity
▪ his charm and verbal dexterity
verbal/linguistic ability (=language skills)
▪ The test is intended to measure the children's linguistic ability.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ability
▪ This suggests that verbal ability is dominant in the left hemisphere and spatial ability is dominant in the right hemisphere.
▪ In 1947, girls scored higher than boys in spelling, language, clerical speed and accuracy, and verbal ability.
▪ This supports the hypothesis that there is a right field advantage for verbal ability over spatial ability.
▪ However, in other studies it has been found that women in general have superior verbal ability to men.
abuse
▪ Even though he never physically abused me, the verbal abuse was frightening.
▪ A solid majority shows strong correlation with disrespectful behavior, verbal abuse and physical aggression.
▪ Some 30 % of exclusions were for bullying, and a further 14.9 % for verbal abuse.
▪ There were the violent outbursts, way out of proportion to any wrong done, and constant verbal abuse.
▪ The effects of verbal abuse can be shattering.
▪ They had descended to their usual shouting of verbal abuse.
▪ I was scared of verbal abuse before, when I was bigger; now it's great to feel invisible.
▪ They subjected her to verbal abuse.
agreement
▪ It's only a verbal agreement.
▪ The conference sponsors claimed that there was never even a verbal agreement, and refused to pay.
▪ This was an untruth-there had been a clear verbal agreement that he would be reimbursed for all his costs.
▪ Your verbal agreement is less important to the child than your interest in how he is feeling.
assault
▪ Until now Mr Mugabe's verbal assaults have largely focused on white farm-owners.
▪ But the best stories in this collection are a completely engrossing verbal assault, challenging in their glaring clarity and uncompromising conclusions.
attack
▪ She explodes in a verbal attack on Trevor which momentarily he finds quite a relief.
▪ Vocalist Zack de la Rocha makes sure his verbal attacks are clearly heard.
▪ Maybe, but Mark E. Smith had the back-up knowledge to defeat any oncoming verbal attack from journalist or punter.
▪ He then turned on the assembled crowd and mounted a scathing verbal attack on them.
▪ With girls the aggression is more likely to consist of a verbal attack.
behaviour
▪ Non-verbal behaviours need to accompany and reinforce what you are saying, your verbal behaviour.
▪ As I keep saying, our visual and verbal behaviour is one of our best bodyguards.
communication
▪ Without labels, verbal communication is impossible.
▪ The physical part made up for the shallowness of verbal communication.
▪ Self motivation, initiative, excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail will, however, be vital.
▪ Written and verbal communication between the plant management and Hanes management about the results of the implementation increases.
▪ Those who find verbal communication difficult will have to rely on what we call corporal communication.
▪ It can be very time consuming and it often depends on unstructured verbal communication because of this.
▪ The context in the eye movement study was unusual in that only verbal communication was possible.
▪ Is awe-inspiring in her ability to evaluate verbal communications and numerical data.
description
▪ For all kinds of on screen information - including graphics - Window Bridge can produce a verbal description.
▪ The decline in information content from principal component 1 to principal component 4 does not need any verbal description.
▪ The root definition is a concise verbal description of the system, which captures its essential nature.
▪ In every case the draftsman should consider whether the plan is to prevail over the verbal description or viceversa.
exchange
▪ Aspects of social and physical context, and of verbal exchange, may affect their judgment.
▪ These encounters are for this reason accompanied by a great deal of laughing, smiling and verbal exchanges.
▪ She motioned to me to sit beside her and we settled into our limited verbal exchanges.
▪ Knowledge of circumstances is communicated partly by information exchange across man-machine interfaces but also by verbal exchanges between people.
▪ A verbal exchange between two people was recorded and part of it was written down.
expression
▪ In other words, the child has progressed to the conception of thinking as something mental, behind any verbal expression.
▪ A man from corporates came at verbal expression from a more novel angle.
▪ And yet the linkage of colour with verbal expression is highly problematic.
▪ A characteristic of human verbal expression of pain is that it contains a mixture of private suffering and public display.
▪ A torrent of words pour out as thoughts race around in her head, vying with each other for verbal expression.
form
▪ Nooj is really the verbal form.
▪ This chapter emphasizes the messages that are communicated through oral or written language-the verbal forms of political communication.
information
▪ It is therefore important to understand the causes of individual differences in children's abilities to interpret non verbal information correctly.
▪ The left selective-attention system directed at retaining verbal information dominated the choice of what was to be selectively retained from the environment.
▪ The volunteers were given both written and verbal information as to the nature of the trial.
▪ These might well involve those selective-attention circuits passing through the left thalamus that focus attention on verbal information such as object names.
▪ The highest level of verbal information that can reasonably be expected from an automatic tagger is the transitivity of the verb.
▪ If managers rely so heavily on verbal information, then that verbal information invariably arrives with an extra verbal overlay.
▪ Of course, the written word is enhanced when given in conjunction with verbal information.
instruction
▪ In the light of this distrust in the effectiveness of verbal instruction, what was Rousseau's opinion of reading?
▪ He gave no verbal instruction but occasionally would gesture with his hand, like a conductor.
▪ The learner acts appropriately on receiving verbal instructions or requests.
▪ She unpacked a self-locating mine, punched in her identifier and gave it a simple verbal instruction.
▪ They are non-verbal tests, though there are verbal instructions which had to be translated into sign for deaf participants.
▪ Photographs of children carrying out each step provide visual reinforcement of the verbal instructions.
message
▪ Voice, eyes, mouth and posture can contradict the actual verbal message.
▪ Do the visual signals you receive help you understand the verbal messages?
▪ Horses can convey considerably more verbal messages than these few examples would imply.
presentation
▪ You may enjoy talking but this does not make you a wizard at verbal presentations.
▪ But making effective verbal presentations is definitely not the same as talking in conversations.
▪ A poor verbal presentation will not only devalue your message but you along with it.
▪ Make a brief effective verbal presentation of your case. 3.
▪ Your prime objective should assist you in coming to terms with the most limiting aspect of verbal presentations.
▪ It has generally been found that people can only absorb around seven key ideas in any verbal presentation, nomatterhow well conveyed.
▪ It can therefore pay to subject your verbal presentation to some extremely critical scrutiny before it reaches its final destination.
▪ If you have to read out your verbal presentation then you are asking for failure.
report
▪ A verbal report will usually be enough.
▪ We received a verbal report to say these were a start but needed more detail.
▪ This conclusion is in accordance with comparable dissociations between implicit processing and verbal report in other areas of neuropsychology.
▪ One is that we must admit verbal reports of inner experiences of human beings as valid evidence for studies of consciousness.
response
▪ We have also noted that there is in practice little inter-observer variation in the scoring of verbal responses in these patients.
▪ Offer either a quick verbal response shortly afterwards or a one page memo.
skill
▪ Freud examines around 250 dreams with a verbal skill and humour which, the translator says, have given her delight.
▪ Conversely a child who is weak in visual perceptions can be helped to use auditory and verbal skills to comprehend other children.
▪ Working with people whose verbal skills and ability to conceptualise may he limited or sometimes non-existent, offers a particular challenge.
▪ At the same time his verbal skills took a leap.
▪ Some people are very mathematically inclined, others excel in verbal skills.
warning
▪ No siren will be used and the alert will be given by verbal warning arranged by the Police.
▪ Mrs Jonker, of Southport, said Miss Owen had been sacked for gross misconduct after written and verbal warnings.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
verbal/linguistic gymnastics
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ verbal abuse
▪ verbal communication
▪ verbal skill
▪ Federal authorities gave Alascom verbal approval to begin the project.
▪ We had a verbal agreement but no written contract.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A verbal report will usually be enough.
▪ And he held the elements of mental propositions to be ideas, just as those of verbal propositions are words.
▪ Normally a language is developed by human beings from guttural sounds that eventually become verbal symbols for objects and actions.
▪ One month after the tests, his teacher wrote the following entry: Harold has become quite verbal but otherwise progressed little.
▪ Some very verbal children may be overreactive to noise and certain types of touch and visual input.
▪ The physical part made up for the shallowness of verbal communication.
▪ This was an untruth-there had been a clear verbal agreement that he would be reimbursed for all his costs.
▪ Your prime objective should assist you in coming to terms with the most limiting aspect of verbal presentations.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The touch judges come in for some even more serious verbals.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Verbal

Verbal \Ver"bal\, n. (Gram.) A noun derived from a verb.

Verbal

Verbal \Ver"bal\, a. [F., fr. L. verbalis. See Verb.]

  1. Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony.

    Made she no verbal question?
    --Shak.

    We subjoin an engraving . . . which will give the reader a far better notion of the structure than any verbal description could convey to the mind.
    --Mayhew.

  2. Consisting in, or having to do with, words only; dealing with words rather than with the ideas intended to be conveyed; as, a verbal critic; a verbal change.

    And loses, though but verbal, his reward.
    --Milton.

    Mere verbal refinements, instead of substantial knowledge.
    --Whewell.

  3. Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal translation.

  4. Abounding with words; verbose. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

  5. (Gram.) Of or pertaining to a verb; as, a verbal group; derived directly from a verb; as, a verbal noun; used in forming verbs; as, a verbal prefix.

    Verbal inspiration. See under Inspiration.

    Verbal noun (Gram.), a noun derived directly from a verb or verb stem; a verbal. The term is specifically applied to infinitives, and nouns ending in -ing, esp. to the latter. See Gerund, and -ing, 2. See also, Infinitive mood, under Infinitive.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
verbal

early 15c., "dealing with words" (especially in contrast to things or realities), from Old French verbal (14c.) and directly from Late Latin verbalis "consisting of words, relating to verbs," from Latin verbum "word" (see verb). Related: Verbally. Verbal conditioning is recorded from 1954. Colloquial verbal diarrhea is recorded from 1823. A verbal noun is a noun derived from a verb and sharing in its senses and constructions.

Wiktionary
verbal

  1. 1 Of or relating to words. 2 Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text. 3 Consisting of words only. 4 Expressly spoken rather than written. 5 (context grammar English) Derived from, or having the nature of a ver

  2. 6 (context grammar English) Used to form a verb. 7 Capable of speech. 8 Word for word; literal; verbatim. 9 (context obsolete English) Abounding with words; verbose. n. (context grammar English) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals. vb. (context transitive British Australia English) To induce into fabricate a confession.

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WordNet
verbal

  1. adj. communicated in the form of words; "verbal imagery"; "a verbal protest"

  2. of or relating to or formed from words in general; "verbal ability"

  3. of or relating to or formed from a verb; "verbal adjectives like `running' in `hot and cold running water'"

  4. relating to or having facility in the use of words; "a good poet is a verbal artist"; "a merely verbal writer who sacrifices content to sound"; "verbal aptitude" [ant: numerical]

  5. expressed in spoken words; "a verbal contract"

  6. prolix; "you put me to forget a lady's manners by being so verbal"- Shakespeare

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Wikipedia
Verbal

Verbal may mean:

  • Non-finite verb, a verb form that functions both as a verb and as another lexical category.
  • A word or group of words that functions as a verb by serving as the head of a verb phrase. (In some languages, adjectives are verbals.)
  • Pertaining to language or the use of words in general (be it spoken or written) as opposed to non-verbal expression, or to spoken words in particular (although, this is usually a common misuse where "oral" is the correct term, e.g. "oral" v. "written" contract -- rather than "verbal" v. "written"). Examples:
    • Verbal abuse
    • Verbal aggressiveness
    • Verbal arithmetic
People
  • Roger "Verbal" Kint, a major character in the 1995 film The Usual Suspects.
  • Verbal (rapper), a Japanese rapper and music producer, and member of M-Flo, Mic Banditz and Teriyaki Boyz
Other uses
  • Verbal Arts Centre, Northern Ireland; the publisher of Verbal magazine
  • Verbal Behavior, a book by B. F. Skinner
  • Verbal Remixes & Collaborations, an EP album by Amon Tobin
Verbal (rapper)

Verbal (born August 21, 1975) is a Japanese third generation Zainichi Korean hip hop recording artist, music video director and record producer who debuted in 1998 as a member of the Hip hop group m-flo.

m-flo's hits in the early 2000s, such as "How You Like Me Now?" and "Come Again" led to Verbal rapping and producing a wide range of acts in Japan such as Crystal Kay, BoA, Kumi Koda and Namie Amuro. Verbal considers his role in m-flo as a "host" than a rapper or producer, though their success and critical acclaim established them as an iconic and influential hip-hop production team throughout Asia

Verbal is also a member of other hip-hop groups such as Mic Banditz and Teriyaki Boyz and has worked with Kanye West, Pharrell and Kylie Minogue amongst many others.

Verbal is also the chairman of music label Espionage Records (an imprint of Rhythm Zone under Avex Group), production agency Kozm and has a fashion brand called Ambush, co-founded with his wife Yoon.

He launched his solo career in March 2011 with the album "Visionair".

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Usage examples of "verbal".

With the verbal report to help her, Gladys found it easier to make out what Barbie had written.

Slaves made it so all free citizens could receive any buyable item available in their sector with a mere verbal command stating what it was that they wanted.

The Jewish apocryphal book of Enoch which was written probably about a century and a half before the birth of Christ, and is explicitly quoted in the Epistle of Jude contains a minute account of the final judgment, including in its scope this whole scenery and all these agents, and closely anticipating both the doctrinal and verbal details of the same subject as recorded in the New Testament itself.

In like manner, when a student gains from a verbal description a knowledge of a plant or an animal, not only does he find it much more difficult to apply his old knowledge in interpreting the word description than he would in interpreting a concrete example, but his knowledge of the plant or animal is likely to be imperfect.

Nevertheless, with a verbal and gesticular amalgam of Spanish, English, facial expression, and hand signal, the two men agreed on a voyage to Boquichicos, embarking early the following morning.

The plan of God for the salvation of men, as its culmination is seen in Christ, is the exhibition of the true type of being, the true style of motive and action, for their assimilation and reproduction: but Calvinism, when fundamentally analyzed, reduces it to a monarchical manifesto and spectacular drama working its effects through verbal terms, acts of mental assent and gesticular deeds.

And it did not take Herbloc long to discover that Gunsel was quick on the verbal draw.

I presented myself accordingly, and the porter told me that the ambassador had left verbal orders that I was not to have a passport.

Patients with lesions of the right temporal lobe or right hemispherectomies are significantly impaired in musical but not in verbal ability- in particular in the recognition and recall of melodies.

I gave him no verbal answer, but took up a glass of milk and flung it in his face, and then left the room without more ado.

In a bygone age that the verbal history of the Rozwi and the Karanga tribes could no longer recount, generations before bold Mzilikazi led his tribe into these hills, another plundering marauder had passed this way.

Tension suddenly ending, Laverock began a verbal outpour, and his words carried the ring of sincerity.

Seward liked to lollygag, to talk back and forth, to give here and take there, quite unconscious of the fact that this verbal bargain hunting invariably convinced people that he was insincere.

Verbal or Abstract nouns and how they interact with the Genitive and Possessive cases.

Where the master practitioner would present us with a seamless and harmonious verbal construction, the man from underground, who literally cannot contain himself, breaks decorum all the time, interrupts himself, comments on his own intentions, defies his readers, polemicizes with other writers.