Verb
[vɜːb] or [vɝb]
解释:
(noun.) the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence.
(noun.) a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence.
塞西尔编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A word; a vocable.
(n.) A word which affirms or predicates something of some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering of action.
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解释:
n. (gram.) the part of speech which asserts or predicates something.—adj. Ver′bal relating to or consisting in words: spoken (as opposed to written): exact in words: attending to words only: literal word for word: derived directly from a verb.—n. a part of speech a noun derived from a verb.—n. Verbalisā′tion.—v.t. Ver′balise to turn into a verb.—ns. Ver′balism something expressed in words or orally; Ver′balist one skilled in words: a literalist; Verbal′ity.—adv. Ver′bally.—ns. Verbā′rian a coiner of words; Verbā′rium a game played with the letters of the alphabet.—adv. Verbā′tim word for word: (Shak.) orally verbally.—ns. Ver′biāge abundance of words: wordiness: verbosity; Ver′bicide the perversion of a word as if the killing of its natural meaning: one who so mangles words a punster; Ver′biculture the deliberate cultivation or production of words; Verbificā′tion the act of verbifying.—v.t. Ver′bify to verbalise.—ns. Verbigerā′tion the morbid and purposeless repetition of certain words and phrases at short intervals; Ver′bo-mā′niac one crazy about words and their study a dictionary-maker.—adj. Verbōse′ containing more words than are necessary: wordy: diffuse.—adv. Verbōse′ly.—ns. Verbōse′ness Verbos′ity.—Verbal definition a definition intended to state the meaning of a word apart from the essence of the thing signified; Verbal inspiration that view which regards Holy Scripture as literally inspired; Verbal note in diplomacy an unsigned memorandum calling attention to a neglected though perhaps not urgent matter.
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例句:
- It is a volonte de pouvoir, if you like, a will to ability, taking pouvoir as a verb. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Why verb active, Mary Anne? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Other is indicative mood, present tense, third person plural, verb active to say. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- And then there is box, the verb, meaning to fight with fists. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Verb neuter, not to care. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- When at last I dozed, in sheer exhaustion of mind and body, it became a vast shadowy verb which I had to conjugate. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Why should every man decline the whole verb. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Mrs Merdle's verbs were so pressingly presented to Mr Merdle to conjugate, that his sluggish blood and his long coat-cuffs became quite agitated. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Of the meaning and use of the articles and conjunctions, verbs and adverbs and pronouns he had but the faintest conception. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- It's like verbs in an exercise. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
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