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Verbal

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Verbal



     1. Of, relating to, or associated with words: a detailed verbal description.
     2.
  a. Concerned with words only rather than with content or ideas: a merely verbal distinction.
  b. Consisting of words alone without action: a verbal confrontation.
     3. Expressed in spoken rather than written words; oral: a verbal contract.
     4. Corresponding word for word; literal: a verbal translation.
     5. Grammar
   a. Relating to, having the nature or function of, or derived from a verb.
   b. Used to form verbs: a verbal suffix.
      6. Of or relating to proficiency in the use and understanding of words: a verbal aptitude test.
  n. Grammar

Verbal has been used since the 16th century to refer to spoken, as opposed to written, communication, and the usage cannot be considered incorrect. But because verbal may also mean "by linguistic means," it may be ambiguous in some contexts. Thus the phrase modern technologies for verbal communication may refer only to devices such as radio, the telephone, and the loudspeaker, or it may refer to devices such as the telegraph, the teletype, and the fax machine. In such contexts it may be clearer to use the word oral to convey the narrower sense of communication by spoken means.

     1. of, relating to, or using words, esp as opposed to ideas, etc. merely verbal concessions
     2. oral rather than written a verbal agreement
     3. verbatim; literal an almost verbal copy
     4. (Linguistics / Grammar) Grammar of or relating to verbs or a verb
     
     1. (Linguistics / Grammar) Grammar another word for verbid
     2. (plural) Slang abuse or invective new forms of on-field verbals
     3. (plural) Slang a criminal's admission of guilt on arrest
vb -bals, -balling, -balled (tr)
Slang (of the police) to implicate (someone) in a crime by quoting alleged admission of guilt in court
verbally adv.

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