Associations to the word «Verb»

Wiktionary

VERB, noun. (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state.
VERB, noun. (obsolete) Any word; a vocable.
VERB, verb. (transitive) (nonstandard) (colloquial) To use any word that is not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
VERB, verb. (used as a neutral, unspecific verb) (often in linguistics and the social sciences) To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.
VERB PHRASE, noun. (linguistics) A construction in a clause consisting of a verb and its internal complements, objects, or modifiers.
VERB PHRASE, noun. (grammar) A phrase that functions syntactically as a verb, consisting of a main verb and any auxiliaries.
VERB PHRASES, noun. Plural of verb phrase

Dictionary definition

VERB, noun. The word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence.
VERB, noun. A content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King