Pleonasm: alternatives and connections

(from a combination of ALGOrithmic and Language); a programming language used to express computer programs as algorithms

An action to recover damages for a breach or nonperformance of a contract or promise, express or implied, oral or in writing not under…

A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing.

An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, Go…

The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrase.

lay claim to; as of an idea; "She took credit for the whole idea"

Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking.

A visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or an idea, by natural ap…

To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by t…

To send by express messenger; to forward by special opportunity, or through the medium of an express; as, to express a package.

A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and…

The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art conc…

A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the pictu…

A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development.

The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.

To communicate by language; to express in language.

To utter with imperfect articulation; to express with words pronounced imperfectly or indistinctly, as a child speaks; hence, to expre…

To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping th…