I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a verbal agreement (= agreed in words, but not written down )
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The doctor needs to have a verbal agreement from the patient.
a verbal exchange (= spoken rather than written )
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The two boxers recently became involved in a heated verbal exchange.
verbal abuse
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vandalism and verbal abuse directed at old people
verbal communication (= with words )
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This activity is designed to improve students' verbal communication skills.
verbal consent (= spoken consent )
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He gave his verbal consent to have the interview taped.
verbal dexterity
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his charm and verbal dexterity
verbal/linguistic ability (= language skills )
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The test is intended to measure the children's linguistic ability.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ability
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This suggests that verbal ability is dominant in the left hemisphere and spatial ability is dominant in the right hemisphere.
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In 1947, girls scored higher than boys in spelling, language, clerical speed and accuracy, and verbal ability .
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This supports the hypothesis that there is a right field advantage for verbal ability over spatial ability.
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However, in other studies it has been found that women in general have superior verbal ability to men.
abuse
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Even though he never physically abused me, the verbal abuse was frightening.
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A solid majority shows strong correlation with disrespectful behavior, verbal abuse and physical aggression.
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Some 30 % of exclusions were for bullying, and a further 14.9 % for verbal abuse .
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There were the violent outbursts, way out of proportion to any wrong done, and constant verbal abuse .
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The effects of verbal abuse can be shattering.
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They had descended to their usual shouting of verbal abuse .
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I was scared of verbal abuse before, when I was bigger; now it's great to feel invisible.
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They subjected her to verbal abuse .
agreement
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It's only a verbal agreement .
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The conference sponsors claimed that there was never even a verbal agreement , and refused to pay.
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This was an untruth-there had been a clear verbal agreement that he would be reimbursed for all his costs.
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Your verbal agreement is less important to the child than your interest in how he is feeling.
assault
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Until now Mr Mugabe's verbal assaults have largely focused on white farm-owners.
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But the best stories in this collection are a completely engrossing verbal assault , challenging in their glaring clarity and uncompromising conclusions.
attack
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She explodes in a verbal attack on Trevor which momentarily he finds quite a relief.
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Vocalist Zack de la Rocha makes sure his verbal attacks are clearly heard.
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Maybe, but Mark E. Smith had the back-up knowledge to defeat any oncoming verbal attack from journalist or punter.
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He then turned on the assembled crowd and mounted a scathing verbal attack on them.
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With girls the aggression is more likely to consist of a verbal attack .
behaviour
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Non-verbal behaviours need to accompany and reinforce what you are saying, your verbal behaviour .
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As I keep saying, our visual and verbal behaviour is one of our best bodyguards.
communication
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Without labels, verbal communication is impossible.
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The physical part made up for the shallowness of verbal communication .
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Self motivation, initiative, excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail will, however, be vital.
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Written and verbal communication between the plant management and Hanes management about the results of the implementation increases.
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Those who find verbal communication difficult will have to rely on what we call corporal communication.
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It can be very time consuming and it often depends on unstructured verbal communication because of this.
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The context in the eye movement study was unusual in that only verbal communication was possible.
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Is awe-inspiring in her ability to evaluate verbal communications and numerical data.
description
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For all kinds of on screen information - including graphics - Window Bridge can produce a verbal description .
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The decline in information content from principal component 1 to principal component 4 does not need any verbal description .
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The root definition is a concise verbal description of the system, which captures its essential nature.
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In every case the draftsman should consider whether the plan is to prevail over the verbal description or viceversa.
exchange
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Aspects of social and physical context, and of verbal exchange , may affect their judgment.
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These encounters are for this reason accompanied by a great deal of laughing, smiling and verbal exchanges .
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She motioned to me to sit beside her and we settled into our limited verbal exchanges .
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Knowledge of circumstances is communicated partly by information exchange across man-machine interfaces but also by verbal exchanges between people.
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A verbal exchange between two people was recorded and part of it was written down.
expression
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In other words, the child has progressed to the conception of thinking as something mental, behind any verbal expression .
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A man from corporates came at verbal expression from a more novel angle.
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And yet the linkage of colour with verbal expression is highly problematic.
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A characteristic of human verbal expression of pain is that it contains a mixture of private suffering and public display.
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A torrent of words pour out as thoughts race around in her head, vying with each other for verbal expression .
form
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Nooj is really the verbal form .
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This chapter emphasizes the messages that are communicated through oral or written language-the verbal forms of political communication.
information
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It is therefore important to understand the causes of individual differences in children's abilities to interpret non verbal information correctly.
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The left selective-attention system directed at retaining verbal information dominated the choice of what was to be selectively retained from the environment.
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The volunteers were given both written and verbal information as to the nature of the trial.
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These might well involve those selective-attention circuits passing through the left thalamus that focus attention on verbal information such as object names.
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The highest level of verbal information that can reasonably be expected from an automatic tagger is the transitivity of the verb.
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If managers rely so heavily on verbal information , then that verbal information invariably arrives with an extra verbal overlay.
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Of course, the written word is enhanced when given in conjunction with verbal information .
instruction
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In the light of this distrust in the effectiveness of verbal instruction , what was Rousseau's opinion of reading?
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He gave no verbal instruction but occasionally would gesture with his hand, like a conductor.
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The learner acts appropriately on receiving verbal instructions or requests.
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She unpacked a self-locating mine, punched in her identifier and gave it a simple verbal instruction .
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They are non-verbal tests, though there are verbal instructions which had to be translated into sign for deaf participants.
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Photographs of children carrying out each step provide visual reinforcement of the verbal instructions .
message
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Voice, eyes, mouth and posture can contradict the actual verbal message .
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Do the visual signals you receive help you understand the verbal messages ?
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Horses can convey considerably more verbal messages than these few examples would imply.
presentation
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You may enjoy talking but this does not make you a wizard at verbal presentations .
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But making effective verbal presentations is definitely not the same as talking in conversations.
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A poor verbal presentation will not only devalue your message but you along with it.
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Make a brief effective verbal presentation of your case. 3.
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Your prime objective should assist you in coming to terms with the most limiting aspect of verbal presentations .
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It has generally been found that people can only absorb around seven key ideas in any verbal presentation , nomatterhow well conveyed.
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It can therefore pay to subject your verbal presentation to some extremely critical scrutiny before it reaches its final destination.
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If you have to read out your verbal presentation then you are asking for failure.
report
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A verbal report will usually be enough.
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We received a verbal report to say these were a start but needed more detail.
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This conclusion is in accordance with comparable dissociations between implicit processing and verbal report in other areas of neuropsychology.
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One is that we must admit verbal reports of inner experiences of human beings as valid evidence for studies of consciousness.
response
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We have also noted that there is in practice little inter-observer variation in the scoring of verbal responses in these patients.
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Offer either a quick verbal response shortly afterwards or a one page memo.
skill
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Freud examines around 250 dreams with a verbal skill and humour which, the translator says, have given her delight.
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Conversely a child who is weak in visual perceptions can be helped to use auditory and verbal skills to comprehend other children.
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Working with people whose verbal skills and ability to conceptualise may he limited or sometimes non-existent, offers a particular challenge.
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At the same time his verbal skills took a leap.
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Some people are very mathematically inclined, others excel in verbal skills .
warning
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No siren will be used and the alert will be given by verbal warning arranged by the Police.
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Mrs Jonker, of Southport, said Miss Owen had been sacked for gross misconduct after written and verbal warnings .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
verbal/linguistic gymnastics
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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verbal abuse
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verbal communication
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verbal skill
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Federal authorities gave Alascom verbal approval to begin the project.
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We had a verbal agreement but no written contract.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A verbal report will usually be enough.
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And he held the elements of mental propositions to be ideas, just as those of verbal propositions are words.
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Normally a language is developed by human beings from guttural sounds that eventually become verbal symbols for objects and actions.
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One month after the tests, his teacher wrote the following entry: Harold has become quite verbal but otherwise progressed little.
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Some very verbal children may be overreactive to noise and certain types of touch and visual input.
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The physical part made up for the shallowness of verbal communication.
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This was an untruth-there had been a clear verbal agreement that he would be reimbursed for all his costs.
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Your prime objective should assist you in coming to terms with the most limiting aspect of verbal presentations.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The touch judges come in for some even more serious verbals.