But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.
You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't.
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.
Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
Word of mouth is the best medium of all.
One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.
All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.
The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.