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Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!
Charles Studd

Meaning of "at a word" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF AT A WORD

at a word play
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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AT A WORD

at a canter
at a discount
at a glance
at a loose end
at a loss
at a low ebb
at a pinch
at a premium
at a price
at a push
at a rate of knots
at a stretch
at a venture
at all
at all times
at an end
at anchor
at any cost
at any price
at any rate

WORDS THAT END LIKE AT A WORD

buzz word
code word
content word
dirty word
entry word
four-letter word
full word
household word
in a word
keyword
mum´s the word
naughty word
of one´s word
operative word
printed word
reserved word
root word
the last word
the word
word for word
written word

Synonyms and antonyms of at a word in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «at a word» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AT A WORD

Find out the translation of at a word to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of at a word from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «at a word» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

在单词
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

en una palabra
570 millions of speakers

English

at a word
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एक शब्द में
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

في كلمة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

при слове
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

numa palavra
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

একটি শব্দে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

à un mot
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pada satu perkataan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

an einer Wort
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

一言で
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

단어 에서
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ing tembung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tại một từ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒரு வார்த்தையில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एका शब्दावर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Bir kelimeyle
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

in una parola
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

w słowie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

при слові
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

la un cuvânt
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σε μια λέξη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

op ´n woord
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

på ett ord
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

på et ord
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of at a word

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AT A WORD»

The term «at a word» is very widely used and occupies the 1.002 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AT A WORD» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about at a word

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QUOTES WITH «AT A WORD»

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Charles Studd
Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AT A WORD»

Discover the use of at a word in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to at a word and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The F-Word
But what about feck? Or ferkin? Or foul--as in FUBAR, or "Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition"? In a thoroughly updated edition of The F-Word, Jesse Sheidlower offers a rich, revealing look at the f-bomb and its illimitable uses.
Jesse Sheidlower, 2009
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A Collection of Confusible Phrases
finishing at practically the same time: The horses came to the finish line in a dead heat, and. without a photograph, the results were too close to call. See also: at a heat . in heat. at a word in a word at a word at smb.'s word or phrase by which ...
Yuri Dolgopolov, 2004
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Commonsense Methods for Children with Special Needs: ...
... SPELLERS Students have become truly independent in their spelling skills when they can look at a list of words and select the most appropriate strategy to use for learning each word. For example, they need to be able to look at a word ...
Peter S. Westwood, 1997
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Language, Sexuality, and Ideology in Ezra Pound's Cantos
... quoted at length; Benjamin discusses Karl Kraus's polemical style of quoting other writers: 'The closer you look at a word, the further away it winks back.' This is platonic love for language. But the proximity from which the word cannot escape ...
Jean-Michel Rabaté, 1986
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Word Origins...And How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone
This is a fact, not hubris. Socrates believed that one could separate a Greek word into elements, add a sound (he said letter), subtract a sound, or scramble the letters a bit and arrive at a word's true, original meaning, as The Thing and the Sign ...
Anatoly Liberman, 2009
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Understanding Word and Sentence
Gaze duration represents the total amount of time that a reader looks at a word before moving to another word; it is the sum of the fixations on a word excluding any that result from regressions to that word. While some researchers favor it as ...
G.B. Simpson, 1991
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A Survey of English Spelling
This is done wherever possible by juggling with slightly wider or slightly smaller spaces at the word boundaries so that the line of print expands or contracts to end at a word boundary. Sometimes this cannot be done neatly and a word has to ...
Edward Carney, 1994
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Spelling, Caught Or Taught?: A New Look
In this 'Word Bank' they are told to look carefully at a word and particularly at the highlighted letter-string which is likely to be the 'hard spot' and then look at this in the other words in the Bank. These they will not actually learn by writing, but by ...
Margaret L. Peters, 1985
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Introduction to Psycholinguistics: Understanding Language ...
If you are looking at a word, and the word to the right can be fully identified before the eyes begin to move, a new saccade can be planned that jumps over the already identified word to the right, which causes that word to be skipped.
Matthew J. Traxler, 2011
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A Machine Translation Approach to Cross Language Text Retrieval
In a wider context, we would find that a single word can have more than one meaning and thus the translation at a word level would fail as the MT system wouldn't know which word to choose. When this is the case, the information supplied by ...
María Gabriela Fernandez-Diaz, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AT A WORD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term at a word is used in the context of the following news items.
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Northern Startups: Relative Insight, advanced language analysis for …
“If you looked at a word cloud of the language used by Toyota, for instance, the words wouldn't be that significant,” adds Hookway. “But if you ... «Prolific North, Jul 15»
2
Napoleon Had a Thing for Rotisserie Chicken
... and his establishment was so arranged that in all places and at all hours, chicken, cutlets, and coffee might be forthcoming at a word.”. «Smithsonian, Jun 15»
3
AlphaBetty Saga brings epic word-play to Android (review)
If spelling is your Kryptonite and you get easily frustrated looking at a word-search, you're better off trying some of King's other Saga titles. «AndroidGuys, Jun 15»
4
South Asians dominate spelling bee circuits
“Some people might like playing video games, but I like staring and staring and staring at a word until it sinks into my head.” Competitors ... «Daily Democrat, Jun 15»
5
What the future of the LGBTQ movement holds: Portland Pride 2015
The word "queer" has gained a lot of steam lately, but older people in the movement bristle at a word that was once thrown so commonly as a ... «OregonLive.com, Jun 15»
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Social Media Defence Guide
It's vital that we don't warp our perception, view or angle of social media; it's a bit like staring at a word for too long eventually it starts to look ... «Huffington Post UK, Jun 15»
7
Russian Youth Are Dancing to Kremlin's Tune
... the relentless television propaganda campaign to tear foreign and domestic enemies limb from limb at a word from their authoritarian leader? «The Moscow Times, Jun 15»
8
Ads Built By Algorithm
"You now have the mathematical insights at a word and phrase level about which emotions are driving response," said Atlas. Nonetheless ... «InformationWeek, May 15»
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'Classmate' or 'Friend'? 'Skeptic' or 'Denier'? Word Choice in The …
But for now, let's look at a word-choice question from Roger Kosson of Granville, Ohio, about the way David Wildstein – a former Port Authority ... «New York Times, May 15»
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20 best iPhone and iPad apps and games this week
Tiny Tower developer NimbleBit is trying its hand at a word game, and very good it is too. More than 200 levels of nine-letter grids and clues to ... «The Guardian, May 15»

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