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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("verb" is a kind of...):
major form class (any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "verb"):
auxiliary verb (a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with)
infinitive (the uninflected form of the verb)
participial; participle (a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses)
phrasal verb (an English verb followed by one or more particles where the combination behaves as a syntactic and semantic unit)
transitive; transitive verb; transitive verb form (a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical)
intransitive; intransitive verb; intransitive verb form (a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object)
Holonyms ("verb" is a part of...):
verb (a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence)
Holonyms ("verb" is a member of...):
conjugation (the inflection of verbs)
Derivation:
verbal (of or relating to or formed from a verb)
verbify (make into a verb)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("verb" is a kind of...):
content word; open-class word (a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned)
Meronyms (parts of "verb"):
verb (the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "verb"):
reflexive verb (a verb whose agent performs an action that is directed at the agent)
copula; copulative; linking verb (an equating verb (such as 'be' or 'become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence)
frequentative (a verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action)
Derivation:
verbal (of or relating to or formed from a verb)
verbify (make into a verb)
Context examples:
He assured me that this invention had employed all his thoughts from his youth; that he had emptied the whole vocabulary into his frame, and made the strictest computation of the general proportion there is in books between the numbers of particles, nouns, and verbs, and other parts of speech.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The principal gentleman who officiated behind the counter, took a good deal of notice of me; and often got me, I recollect, to decline a Latin noun or adjective, or to conjugate a Latin verb, in his ear, while he transacted my business.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
