verb
A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
Noun grammar, human sciences
- A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
- The word “speak” is an English verb.
- In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…] - 1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] , London: Richard...
- Any word; a vocable.
- a Verb of the Singular - 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
- An action as opposed to a trait or thing.
- Kindness is a verb, not an adjective. You're only kind if you do kind things.
- A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
- You can invoke the Properties OLE verb in many ways. The easiest way is to move the mouse over the border of the control until it becomes only a four-way pointer and then right-click. - 1995, Adam Denning, OLE Controls...
- The InfiniBand verbs, which are closely modeled in the “Gen2” interface, provide the functional specification for the operations that should be allowed on an InfiniBand compliant adapter. - 2016, Ada Gavrilovska,...
Origin
From Middle English verbe, directly from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), reinforced by Old French verbe, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Doublet of verve and word.
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See: Thesaurus:verb anomalous verb auxiliary verb auxiliary boot verb causative control verb copular verb defective verb ditransitive verb dynamic verb ergative verb frequentative full verb helping verb helper verb impersonal verb intransitive verb intransitive irregular verb linking verb main verb modal verb modal
Derived
abstract verb action verb adverb attributive verb auxiliary verb boot verb catenative verb causal verb concrete verb control verb copular verb coverb defective verb definite verb determinate verb direct verb ditransitive verb dynamic verb ergative verb finite verb full verb guess the verb helper verb helping verb
Noun entertainment, lifestyle
- Reverb.
Origin
Clipping of reverb.
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anomalous verb auxiliary verb auxiliary boot verb causative control verb copular verb defective verb ditransitive verb dynamic verb ergative verb frequentative full verb helping verb helper verb impersonal verb intransitive verb intransitive irregular verb linking verb main verb modal verb modal negative verb
Verb
- To use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
- Haig, in congressional hearings before his confirmatory, paradoxed his auditioners by abnormalling his responds so that verbs were nouned, nouns verbed and adjectives adverbised. He techniqued a new way to vocabulary...
- I like to verb words.... I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now it's something you DO. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language. - 1993 January 25, Bill Watterson,...
- Nouns should never be verbed. - 1997, David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham, learning LAT_EX, page 8:
- Used as a placeholder for any verb.
- For example, one-part versions of the proposition "The doctor pursued the lawyer" were "The doctor verbed the object," ... - 1946, Rand Corporation, The Rand Paper Series:
- Each sentence had the same basic structure: The subject transitive verbed the object who intransitive verbed in the location. - 1964, Journal of Mathematical Psychology:
- The sentence frame was Dan verbed Ben approaching the store. This sentence frame was followed in all cases by He went inside. - 1998, Marilyn A. Walker, Aravind Krishna Joshi, Centering Theory in Discourse:
Forms
verbs verbing verbed no-table-tags glossary verb verbest verbedst verbeth - vb. v.