What's the difference between lyric and word?

Lyric


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Lyrical
  • (n.) A lyric poem; a lyrical composition.
  • (n.) A composer of lyric poems.
  • (n.) A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; -- used chiefly in the plural.
  • (n.) The words of a song.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Roberts can't really explain why Wu Lyf's lyrics are full of neo-biblical imagery – all blood and fire and crowns – nor why one of their main insignia is a cross, but he does admit that he got suspended from secondary school for putting a picture of Ho Chi Minh's face on Christ's body.
  • (2) In a series of experiments we found that 1) growth rates of hamsters offered the Lyric diet alone or in conjunction with the standard rodent diet exceeded those of hamsters offered only the standard rodent diet.
  • (3) Go Kings go!” The pun-filled press release issued by De Blasio also helpfully included the lyrics to Sinatra’s and Newman’s classic tunes, in case anyone had forgotten.
  • (4) Expecting defeat, but somehow clutching on to hope … Well, Frank [Skinner] and David [Baddiel] wrote that part of the lyrics, but the reason I got them in after the FA asked me to write a song was that I thought it was only worth making if it reflected how it feels to be a football fan.
  • (5) Having bought the album as a present for her 12-year-old daughter, Tipper Gore, wife of Al, was horrified by the lyrics to Darling Nikki.
  • (6) She had attitude to burn, though, while the Bristol crew were content to drift, their work rate informed by the slow pace of their native city and by what might be called the spliff consciousness that determined not just the bass-heavy pulse of their music but the worldview of their lyrics, which often tended towards the insular and the paranoid.
  • (7) We should strip our own national anthem back, and replace the lyrics with our own best-known meaningless word – “oi!” Unless of course Big Liz turns up, and then we can stick in those other words – but she’s not going to, is she?” Netherlands – Tinchy Stryder Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tinchy Stryder has had two UK No1 singles, Number 1 and Never Leave You.
  • (8) Today George Avakian, the jazz producer who befriended both of them, believes: “The session in which she did A Sailboat in the Moonlight is really the one that expresses their closeness musically and spiritually more than any other.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Holiday admitted she wanted to sing in the style that Young improvised, while he often studied the lyrics before playing a song.
  • (9) He rapped – he was introducing Dr Carson to his lyrics and what he raps about.” He quickly added that “it was clean rap; his lyrics were all clean.” The conversation was some time ago, Williams said, while Carson was still at Johns Hopkins.
  • (10) "There are plenty of things she can wax lyrical about without getting into tricky areas: the upcoming first world war centenary, the need for a more global outlook in the economy, the inspiring achievements of British parliamentary democracy."
  • (11) Behind the dancing girls and schmaltzy lyrics that usually characterise pop songs, these men act as the all-oppressing eye of the industry: telling female singers that weight loss and sexual objectification are the only feasible routes to stardom; stripping down women in music videos to their underwear while leaving their male counterparts untouched.
  • (12) "And obviously, lyrics had to be approved by censors.
  • (13) The Heist features great songs, catchy, radio-friendly hooks and Macklemore's patented thought-provoking lyrics.
  • (14) "When people say your lyrics are quite dark, well, it's simple.
  • (15) But their lyrics soon alluded to "blood on the ground".
  • (16) Watching “our lads” pretending to mouth questionable lyrics about God giving the Queen near-immortal life, and her being the victor when she’s not really of fighting age, is silly.
  • (17) Berg sat with Leija on Thursday evening, learning to sing Chris Medina's What Are Words, which includes lyrics that could be considered unbearably trite were they not now so fitting: "And I know an angel was sent just for me, And I know I'm meant to be where I am, And I'm gonna be, Standing right beside her tonight."
  • (18) The Oscars special edition of Biz Extra, published on 26 February, published the pictures alongside the lyrics to Seth McFarlane's controversial opening song We Saw Your Boobs.
  • (19) The irony is that it's the very people (yes Fox and Friends, I'm talking about you) who go around waxing lyrical about the virtues of motherhood and conception that are also the most likely to be pushing policies that make it next to impossible for many women to even conceive of being a mother.
  • (20) Featuring handwritten lyrics and prose drawn from his notebooks and scraps of paper he kept in ringbinders, the selection was put together with the help of journalist Jon Savage .

Word


Definition:

  • (n.) The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable.
  • (n.) Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.
  • (n.) Talk; discourse; speech; language.
  • (n.) Account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used only in the singular.
  • (n.) Signal; order; command; direction.
  • (n.) Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise.
  • (n.) Verbal contention; dispute.
  • (n.) A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence.
  • (v. i.) To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
  • (v. t.) To express in words; to phrase.
  • (v. t.) To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words.
  • (v. t.) To flatter with words; to cajole.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These 150 women, the word acknowledges, were killed for being women.
  • (2) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
  • (3) Looks like some kind of dissent, with Ameobi having words with Phil Dowd at the kick off after Liverpool's second goal.
  • (4) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
  • (5) This study examined the frequency of occurrence of velar deviations in spontaneous single-word utterances over a 6-month period for 40 children who ranged in age from 1:11 (years:months) to 3:1 at the first observation.
  • (6) In other words, the commitment to the euro is too deep to be forsaken.
  • (7) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
  • (8) Tony Abbott has refused to concede that saying Aboriginal people who live in remote communities have made a “lifestyle choice” was a poor choice of words as the father of reconciliation issued a public plea to rebuild relations with Indigenous people.
  • (9) The force has given "words of advice" to eight people, all under 25, over messages posted online.
  • (10) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
  • (11) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
  • (12) There on the street is Young Jo whose last words were, "I am wery symbolic, sir."
  • (13) Sagan had a way of not wasting words, even playfully.
  • (14) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
  • (15) In this connection the question about the contribution of each word of length l (l-tuple) to the inhomogeneity of genetic text arises.
  • (16) But mention the words "eurozone crisis" to other Finns, and you could be rewarded with little more than a confused, albeit friendly, smile.
  • (17) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
  • (18) His words surprised some because of an impression that the US was unwilling to talk about these issues.
  • (19) The phrase “self-inflicted blow” was one he used repeatedly, along with the word “glib” – applied to his Vote Leave opponents.
  • (20) In the 1980s when she began, no newspaper would even print the words 'breast cancer'.

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