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verbiage


  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Verbiage  \Ver"bi*age\  (?;  48),  n.  [F.  verbiage,  from  OF  verbe  a 
  word  See  {Verb}.] 
  The  use  of  many  words  without  necessity,  or  with  little 
  sense  a  superabundance  of  words  verbosity;  wordiness. 
 
  Verbiage  may  indicate  observation,  but  not  thinking. 
  --W.  Irving. 
 
  This  barren  verbiage  current  among  men.  --Tennyson. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  verbiage 
  n  1:  overabundance  of  words 
  2:  the  manner  in  which  something  is  expressed  in  words:  "use 
  concise  military  verbiage"-  G.S.Patton  [syn:  {wording},  {diction}, 
  {phrasing},  {phraseology},  {choice  of  words}] 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  verbiage  n.  When  the  context  involves  a  software  or  hardware 
  system,  this  refers  to  {{documentation}}.  This  term  borrows  the 
  connotations  of  mainstream  `verbiage'  to  suggest  that  the  documentation 
  is  of  marginal  utility  and  that  the  motives  behind  its  production  have 
  little  to  do  with  the  ostensible  subject. 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  verbiage 
 
  When  the  context  involves  a  software  or  hardware  system,  this 
  refers  to  {documentation}.  This  term  borrows  the  connotations 
  of  mainstream  verbiage"  to  suggest  that  the  documentation  is 
  of  marginal  utility  and  that  the  motives  behind  its  production 
  have  little  to  do  with  the  ostensible  subject. 
 
  [{Jargon  File}] 
 
 




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