different between verbalize vs announce

English

Alternative forms

• verbalise

Etymology

From French verbaliser.

Verb

verbalize (third-person singular simple present verbalizes, present participle verbalizing, simple past and past participle verbalized)

1. (transitive) To speak or to use words to express.

   Bill became tongue-tied and could not verbalize his thoughts in the presence of the girl he had a crush on.

2. (transitive, grammar) To adapt (a word of another part of speech) as a verb.

Translations

Portuguese

Verb

verbalize

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of verbalizar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of verbalizar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of verbalizar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of verbalizar

English

Etymology

From Old French anoncier, from Latin ann?nti?re, from ad + n?nti? (“report, relate”), from n?ntius (“messenger, bearer of news”). See nuncio, and compare with annunciate.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ?-nouns', IPA^(key): /??na?ns/
• (UK) enPR: ?-nouns', IPA^(key): /??na?ns/; enPR: ?'nouns, IPA^(key): /?æ.na?ns/
• Rhymes: -a?ns

Verb

announce (third-person singular simple present announces, present participle announcing, simple past and past participle announced)

1. (transitive) to give public notice, especially for the first time; to make known
   • c. 1780 William Gilpin, Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1776, on Several Parts of Great Britain

     Her [Queen Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.

   Synonyms: proclaim, publish, make known, herald, declare, promulgate

2. (transitive) to pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence
   • c. 1718, Matthew Prior, First Hymn of Callimachus

     Publish laws, announce / Or life or death.

   Synonyms: abjudicate, judge

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:announce

Derived terms

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References

• announce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.