say : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: say	by the DICT Development Group
10 results for say
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
say n the chance to speak; "let him have his say" v express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name" Synonym(s): state, say, tell 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" Synonym(s): allege, aver, say express a supposition; "Let us say that he did not tell the truth"; "Let's say you had a lot of money--what would you do?" Synonym(s): suppose, say have or contain a certain wording or form; "The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?" Synonym(s): read, 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" Synonym(s): order, tell, enjoin, 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?" Synonym(s): pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say communicate or express nonverbally; "What does this painting say?"; "Did his face say anything about how he felt?" utter aloud; "She said `Hello' to everyone in the office" state as one's opinion or judgement; declare; "I say let's forget this whole business" recite or repeat a fixed text; "Say grace"; "She said her `Hail Mary'" indicate; "The clock says noon"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Say \Say\, n. [From {Say}, v. t.; cf. {Saw} a saying.] A speech; something said; an expression of opinion; a current story; a maxim or proverb. [Archaic or Colloq.] He no sooner said out his say, but up rises a cunning snap. --L'Estrange. That strange palmer's boding say, That fell so ominous and drear Full on the object of his fear. --Sir W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Say \Say\ (s[amac]), obs. imp. of {See}. Saw. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Say \Say\ (s[amac]), n. [Aphetic form of assay.] 1. Trial by sample; assay; sample; specimen; smack. [Obs.] If those principal works of God . . . be but certain tastes and says, as it were, of that final benefit. --Hooker. Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes. --Shak. 2. Tried quality; temper; proof. [Obs.] He found a sword of better say. --Spenser. 3. Essay; trial; attempt. [Obs.] {To give a say at}, to attempt. --B. Jonson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Say \Say\, v. t. To try; to assay. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Say \Say\, n. [OE. saie, F. saie, fr. L. saga, equiv. to sagum, sagus, a coarse woolen mantle; cf. Gr. sa`gos. See {Sagum}.] 1. A kind of silk or satin. [Obs.] Thou say, thou serge, nay, thou buckram lord! --Shak. 2. A delicate kind of serge, or woolen cloth. [Obs.] His garment neither was of silk nor say. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Say \Say\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Said} (s[ecr]d), contracted from sayed; p. pr. & vb. n. {Saying}.] [OE. seggen, seyen, siggen, sayen, sayn, AS. secgan; akin to OS. seggian, D. zeggen, LG. seggen, OHG. sag[c7]n, G. sagen, Icel. segja, Sw. s[84]ga, Dan. sige, Lith. sakyti; cf. OL. insece tell, relate, Gr. 'e`nnepe (for 'en-sepe), 'e`spete. Cf. {Saga}, {Saw} a saying.] 1. To utter or express in words; to tell; to speak; to declare; as, he said many wise things. Arise, and say how thou camest here. --Shak. 2. To repeat; to rehearse; to recite; to pronounce; as, to say a lesson. Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated In what thou hadst to say? --Shak. After which shall be said or sung the following hymn. --Bk. of Com. Prayer. 3. To announce as a decision or opinion; to state positively; to assert; hence, to form an opinion upon; to be sure about; to be determined in mind as to. But what it is, hard is to say. --Milton. 4. To mention or suggest as an estimate, hypothesis, or approximation; hence, to suppose; -- in the imperative, followed sometimes by the subjunctive; as, he had, say fifty thousand dollars; the fox had run, say ten miles. Say, for nonpayment that the debt should double, Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble? --Shak. {It is said}, [or] {They say}, it is commonly reported; it is rumored; people assert or maintain. {That is to say}, that is; in other words; otherwise.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Say \Say\, v. i. To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply. You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge. --Shak. To this argument we shall soon have said; for what concerns it us to hear a husband divulge his household privacies? --Milton.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
say vt. 1. To type to a terminal. "To list a directory verbosely, you have to say `ls -l'." Tends to imply a {newline}-terminated command (a `sentence'). 2. A computer may also be said to `say' things to you, even if it doesn't have a speech synthesizer, by displaying them on a terminal in response to your commands. Hackers find it odd that this usage confuses {mundane}s.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
say A human may "say" things to a computer by typing them on a terminal. "To list a directory verbosely, say "ls -l"." Tends to imply a {newline}-terminated command (a "sentence"). A computer may "say" things to you, even if it doesn't have a speech synthesiser, by displaying them on a terminal in response to your commands. This usage often confuses {mundane}s. [{Jargon File}]