Definition of saying

"saying" in the noun sense

1. saying, expression, locution

a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations

"pardon the expression"

"saying" in the verb sense

1. state, say, tell

express in words

"He said that he wanted to marry her"

"tell me what is bothering you"

"state your opinion"

"state your name"

2. allege, aver, say

report or maintain

"He alleged that he was the victim of a crime"

"He said it was too late to intervene in the war"

"The registrar says that I owe the school money"

3. suppose, say

express a supposition

"Let us say that he did not tell the truth"

"Let's say you had a lot of money

4. read, say

have or contain a certain wording or form

"The passage reads as follows"

"What does the law say?"

5. order, tell, enjoin, say

give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority

"I said to him to go home"

"She ordered him to do the shopping"

"The mother told the child to get dressed"

6. pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say

speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way

"She pronounces French words in a funny way"

"I cannot say `zip wire'"

"Can the child sound out this complicated word?"

7. say

communicate or express nonverbally

"What does this painting say?"

"Did his face say anything about how he felt?"

8. say

utter aloud

"She said `Hello' to everyone in the office"

9. say

state as one's opinion or judgement declare

"I say let's forget this whole business"

10. say

recite or repeat a fixed text

"Say grace"

"She said her `Hail Mary'"

11. say

indicate

"The clock says noon"

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Quotations for saying

From saying to doing is a long stride. [ Italian Proverb ]

Length of saying makes languor of hearing. [ J. Roux ]

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. [ William M. Thackeray ]

Between saying and doing there's a long road. [ Proverb ]

In morals, as in art, saying is nothing, doing is all. [ Renan ]

Saying well makes us laugh; doing well makes us silent. [ French Proverb ]

Friendship consists not in saying, What's the best news? [ Proverb ]

Wait till night before saying that the day has been fine. [ French Proverb ]

The end of labor is to gain leisure. It is a great saying. [ Aristotle ]

Saying things that should be, and things that should not be, said. [ Horace ]

True eloquence consists in saying all that is proper, and nothing more. [ La Roche ]

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

When men give up saying what is charming, they cease thinking what is charming. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

In saying aye or no, the very safety of our country and the sum of our well-being lies. [ L'Estrange ]

The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it. [ Tuckerman ]

There is a French saying: Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. [ De Finod ]

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life. [ Ik Marvel ]

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore. [ H. W. Beecher ]

We go to the grave of a friend saying, A man is dead, but angels throng about him, saying, A man is born. [ Beecher ]

It is easier for a wit to keep fire in his mouth, than to hold in a witty saying that he is burning to tell. [ Cicero ]

The old saying is expressed with depth and significance: On the pinnacle of fortune man does not long stand firm. [ Goethe ]

I have found the saying of the ancients true, that better is a bright comrade on a weary road than a horse-litter. [ Charles Reade ]

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance. [ Matthew Arnold ]

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent. Eloquence is speaking out - a quality few esteem, and fewer aim at. [ Hare ]

Do we not hear voices, gentle and great, and some of them like the voices of departed friends - do we not hear them saying to us, Come up hither? [ Wm. Mountford ]

To be able simply to say of a man he has character, is not only saying much of him, but extolling him; for this is a rarity which excites respect and wonder. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character: biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand to construct the skeleton. [ Willmott ]

The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far-reaching, while the former is altogether wanting. [ Joubert ]

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. Rut to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing. [ Hume ]

Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre shoots from Lycidas in a twentieth perusal. The portraits of Clarendon are mellowed by every year of reflection. [ Willmott ]

Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in speaking their minds. A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune. [ Steele ]

Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire. Lysander knew this was in part true, and refused the rich garments that the tyrant Dionysius proffered to his daughters, saying that they were fit only to make unhappy faces more remarkable. [ Zimmermann ]

Socrates was pronounced by the oracle of Delphos to be the wisest man in Greece, which he would turn from himself ironically, saying there could be nothing in him to verify the oracle, except this, that he was not wise and knew it, and others were not wise and knew it not. [ Bacon ]

Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of nature, and was not intoxicating. No counterproof can equal the force of that drawn from His attributes. It is an indecency and a calumny to impute to Christ conduct which requires apology. [ Abraham Coles ]

Promising is the very air of the time; it opens the eyes of expectation: performance is ever the duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will, or testament, which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it. [ William Shakespeare ]

It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business. [ Seneca ]

It is the saying of an old divine, Two things in ray apparel I will chiefly aim at - commodiousness and decency; more than these is not commendable, yet I hate an effeminate spruceness as much as a fantastic disorder. A neglected comeliness is the best ornament. It is said of the celebrated Mr. Whitfield that he always was very clean and neat, and often said pleasantly that a minister of the gospel ought to be without a spot. [ J. Beaumont ]

When we turn away from some duty or some fellow-creature, saying that our hearts are too sick and sore with some great yearning of our own, we may often sever the line on which a Divine message was coming to us. We shut out the man, and we shut out the angel who had sent him on to open the door . . . There is a plan working in our lives; and if we keep our hearts quiet and our eyes open, it all works together; and, if we don't, it all fights together, and goes on fighting till it comes right, somehow, somewhere. [ Annie Keary ]

I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. You don't have to tell me, I said. I'm off the team, aren't I? Well, said Coach, you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times. It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

saying in Scrabble®

The word saying is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters saying:

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saying in Words With Friends™

The word saying is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters saying:

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Words within the letters of saying

2 letter words in saying (8 words)

3 letter words in saying (13 words)

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6 letter words in saying (1 word)

Words containing the sequence saying

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Word Growth involving saying

Shorter words in saying

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