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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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tens
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?nz
Noun
tens
- plural of ten
tens pl (plural only)
- (poker slang) A pair of tens.
- The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The teens, the oneties.
Translations
See also
Anagrams
- ENTs, NEST, Sten, ents, nest, nets, sent, sent., snet
Catalan
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin t?nsus. Compare the inherited doublet tes.
Adjective
tens (feminine tensa, masculine plural tensos, feminine plural tenses)
- tense, taut
Etymology 2
Verb
tens
- second-person singular present indicative form of tenir
Further reading
- “tens” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “tens” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “tens” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “tens” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Old French
Etymology
From Latin tempus.
Noun
tens m (oblique plural tens, nominative singular tens, nominative plural tens)
- Alternative form of tans
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French tens, tans, from Latin tempus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?ns/
Noun
tens (plural tenses or tens)
- (grammar) tense
Descendants
- English: tense
References
- “tens(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?t?j?s/, /?t?j??/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /t??j??/
Verb
tens
- Second-person singular (tu) present indicative of ter
Swedish
Noun
tens
- indefinite genitive singular of ten
Anagrams
- Sten, sent, sten
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