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word-for-word

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1. verbatim, word for wordadverb

   using exactly the same words

   "he repeated her remarks verbatim"

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1. word-for-wordadjective

   Using exactly the same words (as were originally used).

   His essay was a word-for-word copy of one on the Internet.

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1. word-for-word

   In linguistics, a calque () or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation. When used as a verb, "to calque" means to borrow a word or phrase from another language while translating its components, so as to create a new lexeme in the target language. For instance, the English word "skyscraper" was calqued in dozens of other languages. Another notable example is the Latin weekday names, which came to be associated by ancient Germanic speakers with their own gods following a practice known as interpretatio germanica: the Latin "Day of Mercury", Mercurii dies (later "mercredi" in modern French), was borrowed into Late Proto-Germanic as the "Day of Wōđanaz" (*Wodanesdag), which became Wōdnesdæg in Old English, then "Wednesday" in Modern English.The term calque itself is a loanword from the French noun calque ("tracing, imitation, close copy"), while the word loanword is a calque of the German noun Lehnwort. Calquing is distinct from phono-semantic matching: while calquing includes semantic translation, it does not consist of phonetic matching—i.e., of retaining the approximate sound of the borrowed word by matching it with a similar-sounding pre-existing word or morpheme in the target language.Proving that a word is a calque sometimes requires more documentation than does an untranslated loanword because, in some cases, a similar phrase might have arisen in both languages independently. This is less likely to be the case when the grammar of the proposed calque is quite different from that of the borrowing language, or when the calque contains less obvious imagery.

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1. word-for-word

   Word-for-word refers to the process of repeating or translating something exactly as it was originally said or written, without changing or leaving out any of the words. It is often used to emphasize the accuracy or fidelity of a transcription, translation, or verbal recounting.

How to pronounce word-for-word?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of word-for-word in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of word-for-word in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of word-for-word in a Sentence

1. Lev Parnas:

   And I told the President that -- our opinion -- that( Ambassador Yovanovitch) is bad-mouthing Ambassador Yovanovitch and that she said that Ambassador Yovanovitch's gon na get impeached -- something like that. I don't know if that's word for word.

2. Lev Parnas:

   In the conversation, the subject of Ukraine was brought up, and I told the President that -- our opinion -- that( Ambassador Yovanovitch) is bad-mouthing Ambassador Yovanovitch and that she said that Ambassador Yovanovitch's gon na get impeached -- something like that. I don't know if that's word for word.

3. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell:

   We're going to have a similar resolution, it may not be word for word, exactly the same, but a similar resolution. And we'll be glad to show it to you when -- when we unveil it.

4. Pliny the Elder:

   In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

5. Donald Trump:

   Word for word, comma for comma, done by people that do it for a living -- and we had an exact transcript.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=word-for-word
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Word-for-word
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word-for-word
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