📖 Definitions of "Verbs"
noun
- 1
(grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state.
"The word “speak” is an English verb."
- 2
Any word; a vocable.
- 3
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."
- 4
A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
verb
- 1
To use any word that is not, or had not been a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
- 2
(used as a neutral, unspecific verb) To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| wordsnoun | Lyrics. |
| copulasnoun | (linguistics, grammar) A word, usually a verb, used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate (usually a subject complement or an adverbial), that unites or associates the subject with the predicate. |
| actionsnoun | The effort of performing or doing something. |
| predicatesnoun | (grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by. |
| verbalsnoun | (countable, grammar) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals. |
| auxiliaries | support personnel that assist the military or police but are organised differently from regular forces. |
| modalsnoun | (linguistics) A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary. |
| dynamicsnoun | (physics) The branch of mechanics that is concerned with the effects of forces on the motion of objects. |
| processes | a monthly peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal covering process/systems related research in chemistry, biology, materials, and allied engineering fields. |
| stativesnoun | (grammar) A construct asserting that a subject has a particular property. |
| intransitivesnoun | (grammar) An intransitive verb. |
| transitivesnoun | (grammar) A transitive verb. |
| imperativesnoun | (uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive. |
| participlesnoun | (grammar) A form of a verb that may function as an adjective, noun or adverb. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. In other languages, there are others, such as future, perfect, and future perfect participles. |
| gerundsnoun | (grammar) A verbal form that functions as a verbal noun. (In English, a gerund has the same spelling as a present participle, but functions differently; however, this distinction may be ambiguous or unclear and so is no longer made in some modern texts such as A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language and The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language) |
| infinitivesnoun | (grammar) A non-finite verb form considered neutral with respect to inflection; depending on language variously found used with auxiliary verbs, in subordinate clauses, or acting as a gerund, and often as the dictionary form. |
| adverbsnoun | (grammar) A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses. |
| transitive verbnoun | (grammar) A verb that is accompanied (either clearly or implicitly) by a direct object in the active voice. It links the action taken by the subject with the object upon which that action is taken. Consequently, transitive verbs can also be used in the passive voice when the direct object of the equivalent active-voice sentence becomes the subject. |
| phrasesnoun | A short written or spoken expression. |
| prepositionsnoun | (grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word. |
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