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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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