Definizione monolingua

verb

verb (third-person singular simple present verbs, present participle verbing, simple past and past participle verbed)

1. (transitive, nonstandard, colloquial) To use any word that is not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
   • a. 1981 Feb 22, unknown Guardian editor as quoted by William Safire, On Language, in New York Times, pSM3

     Haig, in congressional hearings before his confirmatory, paradoxed his auditioners by abnormalling his responds so that verbs were nouned, nouns verbed and adjectives adverbised. He techniqued a new way to vocabulary his thoughts so as to informationally uncertain anybody listening about what he had actually implicationed... .

   • 1997, David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham, learning L^AT_EX, p8

     Nouns should never be verbed.

   • 2005 Oct 5, Jeffrey Mattison, Letters, in The Christian Science Monitor, p8

     In English, verbing nouns is okay

2. (used as a neutral, unspecific verb, often in linguistics and the social sciences) To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.
   • 1946: Rand Corporation, The Rand Paper Series

     For example, one-part versions of the proposition ""The doctor pursued the lawyer"" were ""The doctor verbed the object,"" ...

   • 1964: Journal of Mathematical Psychology

     Each sentence had the same basic structure: The subject transitive verbed the object who intransitive verbed in the location.

   • 1998: Marilyn A. Walker, Aravind Krishna Joshi, Centering Theory in Discourse

     The sentence frame was Dan verbed Ben approaching the store. This sentence frame was followed in all cases by He went inside.

verb (plural verbs)

1. (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state.

   The word “speak” is an English verb.

Definizione dizionario verb

	verbo
	(grammar) a word that indicates an action, event, or a state
	A word that indicates an action or state; it commonly serves as part of the predicate in a sentence.
	A user interface element in a Web Parts application that an end user can click to perform actions such as closing, minimizing, restoring, editing, or deleting a Web Parts control. Developers can also add custom verbs to controls. Web Parts verbs are based on the System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPartVerb class.

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Altri significati:

(used as a neutral, unspecific verb, often in linguistics and the social sciences) To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.

(grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state.

(transitive, nonstandard, colloquial) To use any word that is not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.