Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
- outpouring
- the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written)
- chart
- (usually plural) a listing of best-selling recorded music
- hypallage
- reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face')
- Alcaic verse
- verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by Alcaeus
- price floor
- floor below which prices are not allowed to fall
- funk
- an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
- exposition
- an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse
- bar line
- a vertical line before the accented beat marking the boundary between musical bars
- telephone bill
- statement of charges for telephone service
- snarl
- an angry vicious expression
- substantive
- any word or group of words functioning as a noun
- Ewenki
- the Tungusic language of the Evenki in eastern Siberia
- living will
- a document written by someone still legally capable requesting that he should be allowed to die if subsequently severely disabled or suffering terminal illness
- canto
- the highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music
- Doctor of Theology
- a doctor's degree in theology
- Chickasaw
- the Muskhogean language of the Chickasaw
- aspirate
- a consonant pronounced with aspiration
- braille
- a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals
- pulp magazine
- an inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper
- assize
- the regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale
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