verb
IPA: vˈɝb
noun
- (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
- (obsolete) Any word; a vocable.
- (figurative) An action as opposed to a trait or thing.
- (programming) A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
verb
- (transitive, nonstandard, colloquial) To use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
- (used as a neutral, unspecific verb, often in linguistics and the social sciences) To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.
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Examples of "verb" in Sentences
- The verb has to match with the noun.
- The noun is not the same as the verb.
- The verb agrees with the noun in class.
- The verb would conjugate to the closest noun.
- There is no specifier for the verb phrase in this case.
- By the way, practise is the verb, practice is the noun.
- Noncommittal was probably created from the verb, not the noun.
- A noun phrase alone cannot form the predicate of the existential verb.
- Basically the conjugal endings of the nouns connect verbs with the nouns.
- Notice that the word in a given locative case modifies the verb, not a noun.
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