英:[vɜːb]
美:[vɜːb]
英:[vɜːb]
美:[vɜːb]
复数:verbs
第三人称单数:verbs
现在分词:verbing
过去式:verbed
过去分词:verbed
verbless (adj.)
词根:verb
adj.verbal 口头的;言语的;动词的;照字面的
adv.verbally 口头地,非书面地;用言辞地
n.verbal 动词的非谓语形式
verbalism 咬文嚼字;冗词;言语表达;套话
verbalization 以言语表现;冗长;变成动词
vi.verbalize 累赘;唠叨;以言语表述
vt.verbalize 使…变成动词;用言语表达
verbify 使动词化
noun
a word that characteristically is the grammatical center of a predicate and expresses an act, occurrence, or mode of being, that in various languages is inflected for agreement with the subject, for tense, for voice, for mood, or for aspect, and that typically has rather full descriptive meaning and characterizing quality but is sometimes nearly devoid of these especially when used as an auxiliary or linking verb
verb
transitive verb
to use (a word and especially a noun) as a verb : to make (a word) into a verb But it is by no means unusual for a noun to be verbed.—Theodore M. Bernstein
A television announcer in Vero Beach, Fla., spoke of a promise "to upkeep the beach," thus verbing a word that had been in use as an honest noun since 1884.—James Kilpatrick
verb phrase动词短语;动词词组
transitive verb及物动词;单宾动词;外动词
auxiliary verb助动词
verb tense动词时态
irregular verb不规则动词
finite verb限定动词,定式动词
phrasal verbn. 短语动词;动词词组
main verb主动词
intransitive verb不及物动词
linking verb连缀动词
predicate verb谓语动词
modal verb情态动词
regular verb规则动词
“一个断言或声明的词语; 语法中的一种词性,其作用是表述,它可以单独或与各种修饰语或附属语结合,与主语组成句子”[世纪词典],14世纪晚期,源自古法语 verbe “单词; 上帝的话语; 表达动作或存在的语法部分”(12世纪),直接源自拉丁语 verbum “动词”,最初意为“一个词”,源自 PIE 词根 *were-(3)“说话”(也是 Avestan 词根 urvata- “命令”; 梵语词根 vrata- “命令,誓言”; 希腊语词根 rhētōr “公众演讲者”, rhetra “协议,契约”, eirein “说话,说”; 赫梯语词根 weriga- “召唤”; 立陶宛语 vardas “名字”; 哥特语 waurd,古英语 word “单词”)。
Noun Middle English verbe, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin verbum "word, verb" — more at word >entry 1
The first known use of verb was in the 14th century
verbal1 of 2adjective
of, relating to, or consisting of words
verbal instructions
of, relating to, or formed from a verb
a verbal adjective
spoken rather than written
a verbal agreement
verbal2 of 2noun
a word that combines characteristics of a verb with those of a noun or adjective
verbnoun
a word that is usually the grammatical center of a predicate and expresses an act, occurrence, or state of being and that in various languages is inflected (as for agreement with the subject or for tense)
1 We pieced together new words by taking, say, an English verb and giving it Spanish endings.
2 That was such a seismic shift in the game, the song’s title became a verb that’s still used 20-something years later.
3 For instance, other words may get in between the subject and the verb.
4 And the streets had erased everything I’d ever learned in school; I didn’t know a verb from a house.
5 Some rules of grammar may shift every eon or so, but you can bet the bank that this one will never change: Subject and verb must agree.
6 Ordinarily to be is not the kind of verb that can be modified by an adverb.
7 Indeed, the spot in front of the main verb is often the most natural resting place for an adverb.
8 Here we have an adverb, unproblematically, modifying the verb continue, an ellipsis for continue to be.
9 At one time, everyone agreed that the verb get had two past participles: got and gotten.
10 That’s why guidelines on how to avoid legalese and other turbid professional styles call for using first- and second-person pronouns, inverting passives into actives, and letting verbs be verbs rather than zombie nouns.
11 Take agreement between the subject and the verb: we say The bridge is crowded, but The bridges are crowded.
12 Except can also be a verb—it means “exclude” or “leave out”—but its usual meaning is “other than.”
13 Light verbs such as make, do, have, bring, put, and take often do nothing but create a slot for a zombie noun, as in make an appearance and put on a performance.
14 “Who can identify the implied verb?” she asked.
15 Malik insists that Jar Jar Binks should be a verb, adjective, and an adverb to describe whack stuff because Jar Jar Binks is the worst character in the Star Wars universe.
16 Words don’t come with labels like “I’m a noun” or “I’m a verb.”
17 The other half is convinced that Luke Potter will become a verb like Xerox or fax.
18 “Yes. Start with the word manifest Its a verb as well as a noun. Look it up.”
19 If we used only one verb per sentence, we'd never have trouble choosing the tense—past, present, future, or whatever: They waltzed.
20 In Oedipus thought that Polybus was his father, the clause that Polybus was his father is a complement of the verb thought.