1. Definition: 1. (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome

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1. Definition: 1. the act of giving a talk to an audience; "I attended an interesting talk on local history"

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1. Definition: 1. undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election"

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1. Definition: 1. information about recent and important events; "they awaited news of the outcome"

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1. Definition: 1. the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written; "English usage"; "a usage borrowed from French"

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1. Definition: 1. a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"

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1. Definition: 1. a favorite saying of a sect or political group

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1. Definition: 1. used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier)

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1. Definition: 1. metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side

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1. Definition: 1. the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals"

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1. Definition: 1. divide, combine, or mark into phrases; "phrase a musical passage"

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1. Definition: 1. loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric"

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1. Definition: 1. a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language

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1. Definition: 1. (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise"

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1. Definition: 1. overabundance of words

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1. Definition: 1. the special line of work you have adopted as your career; "his specialization is gastroenterology"

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1. Definition: 1. the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication

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1. Definition: 1. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"

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1. Definition: 1. a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

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1. Definition: 1. a prominent attribute or aspect of something;

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