verb (English, noun)
Pronunciation: tags: Received-Pronunciation
ipa: /vɜːb/
tags: US
ipa: /vɝb/
tags: Canada
ipa: /vəɹb/
tags: Canada
ipa: [vɚ(ɹ)b]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b
Etymology: From Middle English verbe, directly from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), reinforced by Old French verbe, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Doublet of verve and word.
Definitions: examples: text: The word “speak” is an English verb.
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text: In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…]
ref: 1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] , London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, page 32; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972:
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topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
examples: text: a Verb of the Singular
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
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glosses: Any word; a vocable.
tags: obsolete
examples: text: Kindness is a verb, not an adjective. You're only kind if you do kind things.
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glosses: An action as opposed to a trait or thing.
tags: figuratively
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1995, Adam Denning, OLE Controls Inside Out, page 321:
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text: 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.
ref: 2016, Ada Gavrilovska, Attaining High Performance Communications: A Vertical Approach:
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topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
Forms: form: verbs
tags: plural
form: vb.
tags: alternative
form: v.
tags: alternative
Synonyms: word: verb
word: action word
Hypernyms: word: word
Hyponyms: word: See: Thesaurus:verb
word: anomalous verb
word: auxiliary verb
word: auxiliary
word: boot verb
word: causative
word: control verb
word: copular verb
word: defective verb
word: ditransitive verb
word: dynamic verb
word: ergative verb
word: frequentative
word: full verb
word: helping verb
word: helper verb
word: impersonal verb
word: intransitive verb
word: intransitive
word: irregular verb
word: linking verb
word: main verb
word: modal verb
word: modal
word: negative verb
word: passive verb
word: perfective verb
word: phrasal verb
word: pronominal verb
word: reflexive verb
word: reflexive
word: regular verb
word: serial verb
word: stative verb
word: transitive verb
word: transitive
Derived terms: abstract verb
action verb
adverb
attributive verb
auxiliary verb
boot verb
catenative verb
causal verb
concrete verb
control verb
copular verb
coverb
defective verb
determinate verb
direct verb
ditransitive verb
dynamic verb
ergative verb
finite verb
full verb
guess the verb
helper verb
helping verb
HTTP verb
impersonal verb
indeterminate verb
intradirective verb
intransitive verb
irregular verb
labile verb
lexical verb
light verb
linking verb
link verb
main verb
middle verb
modal verb
monotransitive verb
negative verb
non-finite verb
particle verb
phrasal prepositional verb
phrasal verb
prepositional verb
preterite-present verb
preverb
progressive verb
pronominal verb
pro-verb
psych verb
regular verb
reporting verb
separable verb
shoe verb
stem-changing verb
strong verb
subject-verb agreement
substantive verb
transitive verb
vector verb
verbal
verbal complement
verbal noun
verbal regency
verb form
verb-framed
verb-framing
verb inflection
verbless clause
verb-object
verb of motion
verb phrase
verb tense
weak verb
weather verb
also: Thesaurus:verb