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verb

/vurb/US // vɜrb //UK // (vɜːb) //

动词,词

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any member of a class of words that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and that may be inflected for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and to show agreement with their subject or object.

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Examples

  • While the company hasn’t become a verb akin to Google, its name has made its way into financial vernacular.

  • “Our brand is now widely used as a verb for bike taxi and 30 minute deliveries, and the fresh capital allows us to expand our network to solidify our leading position,” he said.

  • When you look at other languages, you can see that same piece of structure, the thing that conveys the same meaning, further away from the verb.

  • You find that same pattern—things that get attached to the verb—in language after language.

  • A verb marking whether the speaker has good evidence or not-so-good evidence for the thing they’re talking about is called an evidential.

  • Thus the adoption of any particular verb is a matter of taste, not a question of absolute correctness.

  • The term “gestation,” for instance, is derived from the Latin verb gestāre, used to describe a mammal carrying a burden.

  • As with any emergent technology where an action is involved, the brand becomes the verb.

  • The verb shovel is not a figure of speech; a garden shovel actually is used to serve the oysters.

  • Their Dutch nickname, putterje, comes from the verb putten, meaning to draw water from a well.

  • The verb (—) in the Hebrew, when connected with the name of God in different other passages, has the same import.

  • Here ends Chaucer's portion of the translation, in the middle of an incomplete sentence, without any verb.

  • Observe that the word Christus has no verb following it; it is practically an objective case, governed by thanke in l. 168. '

  • Both in the present passage and in the Pardoner's Prologue the verb to erme is used with the same sb., viz.

  • Ethel could not help saying, "How did you find out the meaning of that word, Tom, if you didn't look out the verb?"