(n.) A friend or comrade; a companion; a familiar and customary acquaintance.
(n.) One who runs house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler.
(n.) The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor.
(v. t.) To stand sponsor to.
(v. i.) To make merry.
(v. i.) To prate; to chat; to talk much.
(v. i.) To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest May dismisses reports of frosty dinner with EU chief as ‘Brussels gossip’ The EU delegation are said to have wondered whether Davis might still be in his post following the general election.
(3) Ministers can glean vital gossip about cabinet reshuffles if they keep on the right side of their drivers, who form the most high-class grapevine in Britain as they wait in the Speaker's courtyard at Westminster while their charges vote in the Commons.
(4) Others will point out that this is a case of pot calling kettle black as Wolff is himself a famous peddler of tittle-tattle – the aggregator website that he cofounded, Newser, even has a section called "Gossip".
(5) That's the kind of insider gossip you get when you're a media player like me.
(6) Similarly literary and pensive was Clouds of Sils Maria , in which France's Olivier Assayas combined some modish themes — the internet, celebrity gossip, superhero movies — with some hoarier themes regarding the theatre-cinema divide, ageing and female rivalry.
(7) Lord Justice Leveson's court was packed with lawyers, journalists and computer screens, which made it look like a City trading floor, and which – in a way – is the Leveson story: what price privacy, what price the risk of publishing gossip without checking it, what price tip-off fees about the rich and famous that might be worth £5,000 to a police or NHS worker – or the £500,000 (so top injunction solicitor, Graham Shears, told the hearing) for bedding a David Beckham?
(8) He likes the policy bit of politics rather more than the showbusiness, and there is no fodder for gossip in his personal life.
(9) A few weeks ago, myriad gossip sites published photos of the Malibu home he just bought, going through the place room by room.
(10) A leading member of Voronin's party, Mark Tkachuk, told reporters the claims were "fairy tales" and "low-life gossip".
(11) It wasn't just women who gossiped in the queues for water: it was a community event.
(12) As a result of the disastrous supreme court Citizens United decision,” Sanders said, “billionaires are literally able to buy elections and candidates.” He also appealed for a campaigns without “gossip”, saying: “I’ve never run a negative ad in my life … I believe that in a democracy what elections are about are serious debates over serious issues.” “This is not the Red Sox versus the Yankees.” Progressive activists welcomed his entry into the race but continued to urge Warren, who is seen as a more polished performer, to compete against Clinton as well.
(13) Smith responded by saying he would not “indulge in gossip”.
(14) How can free expression and the yearning for a private life be protected in this murky arena of a gossip free-for-all?
(15) Before what is bound to be a gossip-fuelled party conference season in which Lib Dem flirtation with Labour (and vice versa) will be added to the mix of plotting, irresistible visions of the future home into view.
(16) But with no arrests and no obvious external suspects, the girls' family have found themselves the subject of local gossip, newspaper speculation and background briefings intended to place them firmly in the frame.
(17) Matters of the utmost importance – such as inequality, poverty, exploitation, corporate crime and the destruction of the natural world – are neglected or marginalised, while trivial political gossip is elevated to the status of major news.
(18) According to reports , the Goody wedding issue of Richard Desmond's celebrity gossip magazine sold 1.8 million copies, more than three times its average circulation of 508,504 in the second half of 2008.
(19) Its target is not just celebrity intrusion but bias, unfairness and gossip in the style of Private Eye and the "off Fleet Street" plethora of news-and-comment websites.
(20) He gossips about former colleagues and even offers theories about how to solve the developing international crisis in the Crimea – ban Russia from the Olympics, maybe.
Verbatim
Definition:
(adv.) Word for word; in the same words; verbally; as, to tell a story verbatim as another has related it.
Example Sentences:
(1) More tasks were remembered by subjects tested via performance than by subjects tested via verbatim recall.
(2) Data were collected by means of semi-structured interviews of 1 hour, which were tape recorded and transcribed verbatim.
(3) If this representation consists of a verbal instruction that is translated into action at the time of retrieval, then memory should be better when tested via verbatim recall of the instruction than when tested via actual performance.
(4) Although it remains unclear why he chose to place the muddled woman in a kitchen – clinging to her mug and surrounded by children's toys – as opposed to say, in a laboratory or a truck, he claims all the words were authentically spoken by "women in dozens of focus groups around the country", prior to being stitched together in this latest triumph for the fashionable, verbatim school of drama.
(5) Using data from a 1986 national telephone survey, we performed a content analysis of subjects' verbatim reports as to why they lacked an RSAC (n = 5,748).
(6) An internal email written at the time reported that, according to Brooks, police had found “numerous voice recordings and verbatim notes of his accesses to voicemails” and that they had a list of more than 100 hacking victims (as distinct from the eight who were later named in court) and that they came from “different areas of public life – politics, showbiz etc” (as distinct from the royal victims who were of interest to the only News of the World journalist they had arrested).
(7) But the guobao surprised me with their ability to repeat my words or voice messages verbatim, though I'm sure I only sent them to some friends through WeChat."
(8) Operating room, organ procurement agency, and critical care nurses were interviewed; audiotaped interviews were transcribed verbatim.
(9) The organization of the materials and the design of the training protocol allow for a wide range of practice activities in tracking, including the use of nonverbatim as well as verbatim responses.
(10) While neither the company, nor anyone representing Verbatim Communications Ltd, acted for anyone in the Nama sale to Cerberus, Verbatim Communications fully supports all investigations into the matter whether in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland.” The company added that: “Three years ago, Verbatim Communications Ltd was engaged by Tughans to assist with a very successful event relating to third-level education.
(11) Perhaps such mistakes are unsurprising: much of the letter was cut and pasted verbatim, without acknowledgement or circumspection, from a document published by an anti-windfarm group called Country Guardian.
(12) Verbatim examples of these techniques are given as illustrations of how to use them.
(13) When I went to British film investors with stories of the black experience in a historical context, I was told verbatim: 'We're looking for Dickens or Austen.
(14) In verbatim, responsibility for whatever attitudes and ideas make it to the stage can always be conveniently devolved.
(15) Despite the veneer of authenticity that verbatim gives, it inevitably serves to mask the biases of the makers – their decisions about who to give voice to, what opinions to edit out.
(16) A talker and a receiver engage in a dialogue for a designated period of time in which the receiver reports his perception of successive segments of read text and is corrected by the talker until the text is repeated verbatim.
(17) All the interviews were transcribed verbatim by the principal researcher and analyzed by the technique of immersion and crystallization.
(18) Whole tracts of Pound's Cantos are "found" passages lifted verbatim from secondary sources.
(19) In July 2008, Osborne repeated the pledge verbatim.
(20) Verbatim descriptions of seizure manifestations were transcribed from medical records as part of a large, population-based prevalence study of childhood epilepsy conducted in two countries in central Oklahoma.