verb
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) From Middle English verbe, from Old French verbe, from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Doublet of word.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b
Noun
verb (plural verbs)
- (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state.
- The word “speak” is an English verb.
- (obsolete) Any word; a vocable.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of South to this entry?)
- (figurative) 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.
- (programming) A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
- 1995, Adam Denning, OLE Controls Inside Out (page 321)
- 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.
- 2016, Ada Gavrilovska, Attaining High Performance Communications: A Vertical Approach:
- 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.
- 1995, Adam Denning, OLE Controls Inside Out (page 321)
Usage notes
Verbs compose a fundamental category of words in most languages. In an English clause, a verb forms the head of the predicate of the clause. In many languages, verbs uniquely conjugate for tense and aspect.
Quotations
- 2001 — Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, p 221
- Then you could say that the doorway exploded. But the particular verb doesn't do the action justice. Rather, it shattered into infinitesimal pieces.
Hyponyms
- See: Thesaurus:verb
Derived terms
- See also: Thesaurus:verb
Translations
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Verb
verb (third-person singular simple present verbs, present participle verbing, simple past and past participle verbed)
- (transitive, nonstandard, colloquial) To use any word that is not, or had not been a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
- a. 1981 Feb 22, unknown Guardian editor as quoted by William Safire, On Language, in New York Times, pSM3
- 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 his thoughts so as to informationally uncertain anybody listening about what he had actually implicationed... .
- 1997, David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham, learning LATEX, p8
- Nouns should never be verbed.
- 2005 Oct 5, Jeffrey Mattison, Letters, in The Christian Science Monitor, p8
- In English, verbing nouns is okay
- a. 1981 Feb 22, unknown Guardian editor as quoted by William Safire, On Language, in New York Times, pSM3
- (used as a neutral, unspecific verb, often in linguistics and the social sciences) To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.
- 1946: Rand Corporation, The Rand Paper Series
- For example, one-part versions of the proposition "The doctor pursued the lawyer" were "The doctor verbed the object," ...
- 1964: Journal of Mathematical Psychology
- Each sentence had the same basic structure: The subject transitive verbed the object who intransitive verbed in the location.
- 1998: Marilyn A. Walker, Aravind Krishna Joshi, Centering Theory in Discourse
- The sentence frame was Dan verbed Ben approaching the store. This sentence frame was followed in all cases by He went inside.
- 1946: Rand Corporation, The Rand Paper Series
Conjugation
infinitive | (to) verb | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | verb | verbed | |
2nd-person singular | |||
3rd-person singular | verbs | ||
plural | verb | ||
subjunctive | verb | verbed | |
imperative | verb | — | |
participles | verbing | verbed |
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:verb.
See also
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
verb m (plural verbs)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
verb n (definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb or verber, definite plural verba or verbene)
Derived terms
References
- “verb” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
verb n (definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb, definite plural verba)
Derived terms
References
- “verb” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
verb n (plural verbe)
Declension
Swedish
Noun
verb n
Declension
Declension of verb | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | verb | verbet | verb | verben |
Genitive | verbs | verbets | verbs | verbens |
Synonyms
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Etymology
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Noun
verb
Inflection
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