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verb
/vɝb/
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What does verb mean?
noun
- A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.
- (figuratively) An action as opposed to a trait or thing.
- A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
More meanings (4)
verb
- To use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
- Used as a placeholder for any verb.
noun
- Reverb.
- (obsolete) Any word; a vocable.
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IPA pronunciation
/vɝb/
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Feto itself is from an old verb feuere, "to generate, to produce," possibly related to fui and our be.
What a structure of little monosyllabic and disyllabic forms is added to the verb and to the substantive, in the Coptic language!
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When at last I dozed, in sheer exhaustion of mind and body, it became a vast shadowy verb which I had to conjugate.
Mana is not only a force, it is also an action, a quality, a state, at once a substantive, an adjective, and a verb.
He supposed that native term, which he found and did not introduce, to be a derivative from the verb BAIA, or BIAI, 'to make.'