different between verb vs preposition
verb
English
Alternative forms
- vb., v. (abbreviation)
Etymology
From Middle English verbe, from Old French verbe, from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), from Proto-Indo-European *werd?o-. Doublet of word.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /v?b/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /v??b/
- Rhymes: -??(?)b
Noun
verb (plural verbs)
- (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
- (obsolete) Any word; a vocable.
- a Verb of the Singular
- (figuratively) An action as opposed to a trait or thing.
- (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.
- 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
Translations
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... .
- 1993 January 25, Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
- 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.
- 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
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:verb.
See also
- copula
Anagrams
- brev
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin verbum.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /?v??p/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?b?rp/
Noun
verb m (plural verbs)
- verb
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin verbum.
Noun
verb n (definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb or verber, definite plural verba or verbene)
- (grammar) verb
Derived terms
- verbbøying
References
- “verb” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin verbum.
Noun
verb n (definite singular verbet, indefinite plural verb, definite plural verba)
- (grammar) verb
Derived terms
- verbbøying
References
- “verb” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin verbum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [verb]
Noun
verb n (plural verbe)
- verb
Declension
Swedish
Noun
verb n
- (grammar) verb
Declension
Synonyms
- kraftord
Hyponyms
- hjälpverb
Descendants
- ? Ingrian: verbi
Related terms
References
- verb in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Anagrams
- brev
Veps
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
verb
- verb
Inflection
References
- Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “??????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
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preposition
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English preposicioun, from Old French preposicion, from Latin praepositio, praepositionem, from praepono (“to place before”). Compare French préposition. So called because it is placed before the word with which it is phrased, as in a bridge of iron, he comes from town, it is good for food, he escaped by running.
Alternative forms
- præposition (archaic)
Pronunciation
- enPR: pr?p-?-z?sh'?n, IPA(key): /?p??p??z???n/
Noun
preposition (plural prepositions)
- (grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words 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.
- (obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
Hypernyms
- (grammar, strict sense): adposition
Coordinate terms
- (grammar, strict sense): circumposition
- (grammar, strict sense): postposition
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- preverb
Etymology 2
pre- +? position
Alternative forms
- pre-position
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?i?p??z???n/
Verb
preposition (third-person singular simple present prepositions, present participle prepositioning, simple past and past participle prepositioned)
- To place in a location before some other event occurs.
- It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.
Translations
Finnish
Noun
preposition
- genitive singular of prepositio
Interlingua
Noun
preposition (plural prepositiones)
- (grammar) A word that is used in conjunction with a noun or pronoun in order to form a phrase.
Swedish
Noun
preposition c
- a preposition (part of speech)
Declension
Related terms
- prepositionell
- prepositionsadverbial
- prepositionsattribut
- prepositionsuttryck
References
- preposition in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
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