Verb

[vɜːb] or [vɝb]

解釋/意思:

(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.

塞西尔編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

整理:诺拉

解釋/意思:

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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