verb

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.

   • The word “speak” is an English verb.
   • In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…]
2. 2

   Any word

   Any word; a vocable.

   • a Verb of the Singular
3. 3

   An action as opposed to a trait or thing.

   • Kindness is a verb, not an adjective. You're only kind if you do kind things.
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   1. 4

      A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.

      • 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.
      • 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.
   2. 5

      To use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.

      • I like to verb words.... I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now it's something you DO. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language.
      • Nouns should never be verbed.
   3. 6

      Used as a placeholder for any verb.

      • For example, one-part versions of the proposition "The doctor pursued the lawyer" were "The doctor verbed the object," ...
      • Each sentence had the same basic structure: The subject transitive verbed the object who intransitive verbed in the location.
      • The sentence frame was Dan verbed Ben approaching the store. This sentence frame was followed in all cases by He went inside.
   4. 7

      Reverb.

The neighborhood

• synonymverb
• synonymaction word
• neighborword
• neighborSee: Thesaurus:verb
• neighboranomalous verb
• neighborauxiliary verb
• neighborauxiliary
• neighborboot verb
• neighborcausative
• neighborcontrol verb
• neighborcopular verb
• neighbordefective verb
• neighborditransitive verb
• neighbordynamic verb