Science Fair Project Dictionary
Verb
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English
Etymology
From old French verbe , from Latin verbum word, from Indo-European *wer-
Pronunciation
- IPA : /vɜː(r)b/
- SAMPA : /v3:(r)b/
Noun
verb, plural verbs
- a word that indicates an action or a state; in a sentence, a verb forms part of the predicate of the sentence
Related terms
- coverb
- preverb
- verbal
- auxiliary verb
- defective verb
- ditransitive verb
- modal verb
- impersonal verb
- intransitive verb
- irregular verb
- phrasal verb
- serial verb
- stative verb
- transitive verb
Translations
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Transitive verb
- (colloquial) use any word that is not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
Quotations
- 1986: Any noun can be verbed - Dan Davis, describing the creation of bad technical writing.
- Verbing weirds language. - Calvin, from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
See also
German
Noun
Verb n (plural Verben )
- verb
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