verb

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to use a word not conventionally considered a verb, typically a noun, as a verb

   I'm going to try to verb the word 'morning' and see if it catches on.

2. 2
   noun

   a word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence

   The verb described what the subject of the sentence did.

3. 3
   noun

   A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.

   The word “speak” is an English verb.

4. 4
   noun

   Any word; a vocable.

   a Verb of the Singular

5. 5
   noun

   An action as opposed to a trait or thing.

   Kindness is a verb, not an adjective. You're only kind if you do kind things.

6. 6
   noun

   A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.

   You can invoke the Properties OLE verb in many ways. The easiest way is to move the mouse over the border of the control until it becomes only a four-way pointer and then right-click.

7. 7
   verb

   To use any word that is or was not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.

   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... .

8. 8
   verb

   Used as a placeholder for any verb.

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

Etymology

From Middle English verbe, directly from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), reinforced by Old French verbe, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰo-. Doublet of verve and word.