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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talk about supposed truth |
| Synonyms: | back-fence talk, breeze*, bruit, canard, comment, cry, dispatch, earful, fabrication, falsehood, fame, fiction, gossip, grapevine, hearsay, hoax, innuendo, intelligence, invention, lie, news, notoriety, report, repute, rumble, scandal, scuttlebutt, story, suggestion, supposition, tale, tattle, tidings, whisper, wire, word |
| Antonyms: | truth |
| Main Entry: | word |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | statement |
| Synonyms: | account, adage, advice, announcement, bulletin, byword, comment, communication, communiqué, declaration, directive, discourse, dispatch, expression, gossip, hearsay, information, intelligence, intimation, introduction, message, news, notice, pronouncement, proverb, remark, report, rumble, rumor, saw, saying, scuttlebutt, speech, talk, tidings, utterance |
| Main Entry: | reportage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reporting news |
| Synonyms: | address, announcement, article, blow by blow, brief, broadcast, cable, chronicle, communication, communique, coverage, declaration, description, detail, digest, dispatch, handout, history, hot wire, information, message, narration, narrative, news, note, opinion, outline, paper, picture, piece, proclamation, pronouncement, précis, recital, record, relation, release, rundown, résumé, scoop*, statement, summary, tale, telegram, tidings, version, wire, word*, write-up |
| Main Entry: | advice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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admonitory, consiliary, dehortatory, hortative, hortatory, officious, paramuthetic, parenetic, proceleusmatic, recommendatory, suggestible
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| Main Entry: | news |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | Advice. |
| Category: | 2. Complex voluntary action |
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-nouns
advice, counsel, adhortation; word to the wise; suggestion, submonition, recommendation, advocacy; advisemement., exhortation (persuasion); expostulation (dissuasion); admonition (warning); guidance (direction)., instruction, charge, injunction, obtestation; Governor's message, President's message; King's message, Queen's speech; message, speech from the throne., adviser, prompter; counsel, counselor; monitor, mentor, Nestor, magnus Apollo, senator; teacher., guide, manual, chart (information)., physician, leech, archiater., arbiter (judge)., reference, referment; consultation, conference, pourparler.
-verbs
advise, counsel; give advice, give counsel, give a piece of advice; suggest, prompt, submonish, recommend, prescribe, advocate; exhort (persuade)., enjoin, enforce, charge, instruct, call; call upon (request); dictate., expostulate (dissuade); admonish (warn)., advise with; lay heads together, consult together; compare notes; hold a council, deliberate, be closeted with., confer, consult, refer to, call in; take advice, follow advice; be advised by, have at one's elbow, take one's cue from.
-adjectives
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"give every man thine ear but few thy voice" [Hamlet]; "I pray thee cease thy counsel" [Much Ado About Nothing]; "my guide, philosopher, and friend" [Pope]; "'twas good advice and meant, my son be good" [Crabbe]; verbum sat sapienti; vive memor leti; "we, ask advice but we mean approbation"
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| Concept: | Information. |
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information, enlightenment, acquaintance, knowledge; publicity., communication, intimation; notice, notification; enunciation, annunciation; announcement; communiqué; representation, round robin, presentment., case, estimate, specification, report, advice, monition; news; return (record); account (description); statement (affirmation)., mention; acquainting; instruction (teaching); outpouring; intercommunication, communicativeness., informant, authority, teller, intelligencer, reporter, exponent, mouthpiece;, informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective; sleuth; mouchard, spy, newsmonger; messenger; amicus curiae., valet de place, cicerone, pilot, guide; guidebook, handbook; vade mecum; manual; map, plan, chart, gazetteer; itinerary (journey)., hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in the ear, subaudition, cue, byplay; gesture (indication); gentle hint, broad hint; verbum sapienti; word to the wise; insinuation (latency).
-verbs
tell; inform, inform of; acquaint, acquaint with; impart, impart to; make acquainted with, apprise, advise, enlighten, awaken., let fall, mention, express, intimate, represent, communicate, make known; publish; notify, signify, specify, convey the knowledge of., let one know, have one to know; give one to understand; give notice; set before, lay before, put before; point out, put into one's head; put one in possession of; instruct (teach); direct the attention to., announce, annunciate; report, report progress; bringword, send word, leave word, write word; telegraph, telephone; wire; retail, render an account; give an account (describe)); state (affirm)., disclose., show cause; explain (interpret)., hint; given an inkling of; give a hint, drop a hint, throw out a hint; insinuate; allude to, make allusion to; glance at; tip the wink (indicate); suggest, prompt, give the cue, breathe; whisper, whisper in the ear., give a bit of one's mind; tell one plainly, tell once for all; speak volumes., undeceive, unbeguile; set right, correct, open the eyes of, disabuse., be informed of; know; learn; get scent of, gather from; awaken to, open one's eyes to; become alive, become awake to; hear, overhear, understand., come to one's ears, come to one's knowledge; reach one's ears.
-adjectives
informed; communique; reported; published., expressive; explicit (open), (clear) [more]; plain spoken, (artless) [more]., nuncupative, nuncupatory; declaratory, expository; enunciative; communicative, communicatory.
-adverbs
from information received.
-phrases
a little bird told me.
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| Concept: | Intelligence. Wisdom. |
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-nouns
intelligence, capacity, comprehension, understanding; cuteness, sabe [U.S.], savvy [U.S.]; intellect; nous, parts, sagacity, mother wit, wit, esprit, gumption, quick parts, grasp of intellect; acuteness; acumen, subtlety, penetration, perspicacy, perspicacity; discernment, due sense of, good judgment; discrimination; cunning; refinement (taste)., head, brains, headpiece, upper story, long head; eagle eye, eagle glance; eye of a lynx, eye of a hawk., wisdom, sapience, sense; good sense, common sense, horse sense [U.S.], plain sense; rationality, reason; reasonableness; judgment; solidity, depth, profundity, caliber; enlarged views; reach of thought, compass of thought; enlargement of mind., genius, inspiration, geist, fire of genius, heaven-born genius, soul; talent (aptitude)., [Wisdom in action] prudence [more]; vigilance; tact; foresight; sobriety, self-possession, aplomb, ballast., a bright thought, not a bad idea.
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be intelligent; have all one's wits about one; understand (intelligible); catch an idea, take in an idea; take a joke, take a hint., see through, see at a glance, see with half an eye, see far into, see through a millstone; penetrate; discern (descry); foresee., discriminate; know what's what [more]; listen to reason.
-adjectives
[Applied to persons] intelligent, quick of apprehension, keen, acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen witted, clear witted, sharp-eyed, sharp sighted, sharp witted; wide-awake; canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted; discerning, perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute; nimble-witted, needle-witted; sharp as a needle; alive to (cognizant); clever (apt); arch (cunning); pas si bete; acute., wise, sage, sapient, sagacious, reasonable, rational, sound, in one's right mind, sensible, abnormis sapiens, judicious, strong-minded., unprejudiced, unbiased, unbigoted, unprepossessed; undazzled, unperplexed; of unwarped judgment, impartial, equitable, fair., cool; cool-headed, long-headed, hardheaded, strong-headed; long-sighted, calculating, thoughtful, reflecting; solid, deep, profound.
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aut regem aut fatuum nasci oportet; "but with the morning cool reflection came" [Scott]; flosculi sententiarum; les affaires font les hommes; mas vale saber que haber; mas vale ser necio que profiadol nemo solus sapit [Plautus]; nosce te; nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit [Seneca, from Aristotle]; sapere
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| Antonyms: | imbecility, folly |
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| Concept: | News. |
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news; information; piece of news, budget of news, budget of information; intelligence, tidings., word, advice, aviso, message; dispatch, despatch; telegram, cable, marconigram, wire, communication, errand, embassy., report, rumor, hearsay, on dit, flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, gossip, bruit, fame; talk, oui dire, scandal, eavesdropping; town tattle, table talk; tittle tattle; canard, topic of the day, idea afloat., fresh news, stirring news; glad tidings., old story, old news, stale news, stale story; chestnut., narrator (describe); newsmonger, scandalmonger; talebearer, telltale, gossip, tattler.
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many-tongued; rumored; publicly rumored, currently rumored, currently reported; rife, current, floating, afloat, going about, in circulation, in every one's mouth, all over the town.
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as the story goes, as the story runs; as they say, it is said; by telegraph, by wireless.
-phrases
"airy tongues that syllable men's names" [Milton].
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