dic·tion /ˈdɪkʃən/
 措辭,言語,用語


 Dic·tion n.  Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems.
    His diction blazes up into a sudden explosion of prophetic grandeur.   --De Quincey.
 Syn: -- Diction, Style, Phraseology.
 Usage: Style relates both to language and thought; diction, to language only; phraseology, to the mechanical structure of sentences, or the mode in which they are phrased. The style of Burke was enriched with all the higher graces of composition; his diction was varied and copious; his phraseology, at times, was careless and cumbersome. “Diction is a general term applicable alike to a single sentence or a connected composition. Errors in grammar, false construction, a confused disposition of words, or an improper application of them, constitute bad diction; but the niceties, the elegancies, the peculiarities, and the beauties of composition, which mark the genius and talent of the writer, are what is comprehended under the name of style.”

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 diction
      n 1: the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view
           of its intelligibility to the audience [syn: enunciation]
      2: the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use
         concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton [syn: wording, phrasing,
          phraseology, choice of words, verbiage]