(n.) The quality or state of being verbal; mere words; bare literal expression.
Example Sentences:
(1) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(2) Heart rate, blood pressure and verbal reports of emotional experience were measured.
(3) This paper reports two experiments concerned with verbal representation in the test stage of recognition memory for naturalistic sounds.
(4) In contrast, children who initially have good verbal imitation skills apparently show gains in speech following simultaneous communication training alone.
(5) A group of pregnant women received video and verbal feedback during three ultrasound examinations.
(6) Response requirements are manual rather than verbal so that, in addition to monitoring heart rate, subjects' exhaled air may be collected throughout the task in order to determine oxygen consumption.
(7) Although the greater vulnerability of the verbal intelligence of the younger radiated child and the serial order memory of the child with later tumor onset and hormone disturbances remain to be explained, and although the form of the relationship between radiation and tumor site is not fully understood, the data highlight the need to consider the cognitive consequences of pediatric brain tumors according to a set of markers that include maturational rate, hormone status, radiation history, and principal site of the tumor.
(8) During the initial 6-hour efficacy evaluation, analgesia was measured using verbal and visual scriptors and vital signs, and acute toxicity information was recorded.
(9) A vigorous progressive physical and occupational therapy program producing tangible results does more for the patient's morale than any verbal encouragement could possibly do.
(10) Verbal activity was measured by counting the number of times each patient was MA during the course of the group.
(11) We see a lot of verbal gymnastics by these candidates at public events,” said Paul S Ryan at the Campaign Legal Center.
(12) They are most commonly described as conduct disordered and hyperactive, appear heir to a variety of deficits in verbal and abstract cognition, and perform more poorly in the academic environment.
(13) The verbal coding and recognition of colours of a group of chronic schizophrenics and their normal controls were investigated.
(14) The nonverbal task was administered to the patients with PD, patients with AD and normal control subjects studied with the verbal task.
(15) Neuropsychological functioning in 90 male and female alcoholics and 65 peer controls was examined using both accuracy and time measures for four basic types of neuropsychological functioning: verbal skills, learning and memory, problem-solving and abstracting, and perceptual-motor skills.
(16) Correlations with other measures indicated strong association with tests of spatial visualization and virtually no association with tests of verbal ability.
(17) Verbal feedback training consisted of instructing the patient to squeeze the vaginal muscles around the examiner's fingers and providing her with verbal performance feedback.
(18) This paper presents a comparison between three different modes of simulation of the diagnostic process-a computer-based system, a verbal mode, and a further mode in which cards were selected from a large board.
(19) This more recent system has developed embedded wlithin the posteriorly located analytic and mnemonic cortical tissues and provides for communications between individuals within the species at symbolic, verbal levels.
(20) This correlation appeared strongest for those with high verbal IQ.
Verbiage
Definition:
(n.) The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense; a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.
Example Sentences:
(1) But cutting through the legal verbiage, it is possible to reduce them to eight main political sticking points: Timing As with any good meeting, much of the opening energy is likely to be expended on talks about talks.
(2) Now as the Obama administration uses the same verbiage as the Clinton administration used two decades ago, trade experts are alarmed at what is to come.
(3) The second group, ranging from Shakespeare in Love to The Ten Commandments to The Great Escape, rely on slightly more verbiage, and do not transmit as transparent a message as Die Hard or The Godfather, but still manage to convey a fairly good idea of what the picture is about.
(4) Jeter asks: “Why doesn’t he just shut up?” Rodriguez helped create a new phrase in Mets lore – “24 plus one” – which was the verbiage used by then Mets GM Steve Phillips to describe why the team had opted out of the Rodriguez free-agent sweepstakes in 2000.
(5) Eshun says that there were serious structural issues – that, in the exasperating management verbiage, there were too many "silos", each operating independently.
(6) Peres chided “Bibi” for “111 days of verbiage”, and held on as party chairman until Barak ousted him in 1997.
(7) Bill’s weary patter last night on the subjects of working families, and something something community-and-something-something-renewable-energy targets may be carefully constructed verbiage to target we-share-your-concerns to swinging voters, but Labor’s present strategy wholly avoids speaking to those that Labor crucially needs to deliver both an election win and a majority large enough to ensure space for policy implementation and future planning.
(8) There's a lot of verbiage around this issue – a lot of it by critics who don't seem to ever leave their offices, don't know what's happening in the field, don't really see it.
(9) This may not amount to satisfying the latter countries' UN security council aspirations but it was no mere verbiage either.
(10) It is the verbiage of un-reason and it leaves me cold.
(11) If Keaton is good at anything, it's this kind of circumlocutory verbiage.
(12) Like all patent applications, it consists of three coats of prime technical verbiage, and the devil is in the detail, but the essence of it is that in exchange for a monthly payment Facebook users will be able to get rid of ads and specify exactly what should replace them on their personal profiles.
(13) Who said there was already too much verbiage on the net?
(14) No amount of verbiage could disguise his failure to meet his own debt targets or the consequent disappointment of the divided Tory tribe.
(15) The connecting themes of modernity, social mobility and enabling governance were also themes of the outgoing administration, and its patchy record should warn Nick Clegg and David Cameron that use of such verbiage does not guarantee that anything will actually happen.
(16) Fitzgerald said the constitutional ban on using evidence obtained by torture in the Jordanian courts was little more than the "general verbiage to be found in any constitution or human rights instrument" and added little to the existing legal ban.