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What is the difference between adjective and verb?

adjective | verb |

In obsolete terms the difference between adjective and verb

is that adjective is a dependent; an accessory while verb is any word; a vocable.

In grammar terms the difference between adjective and verb

is that adjective is a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent while verb is a word that indicates an action, event, or state.

As an adjective adjective

is incapable of independent function.

adjective

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (obsolete) Incapable of independent function.
  • * 1899 , , Emerson and Other Essays , AMS Press (1969) (as [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13088 reproduced] in Project Gutenberg)
  • In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God is adjective to man.
  • (grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
  • (legal) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
  • * Macaulay
  • The whole English law, substantive and adjective .
  • (chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
  • Synonyms

    * (incapable of independent function) dependent, derivative * (functioning as an adjective) adjectival * (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure) procedural

    Antonyms

    * (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure) substantive * (of a dye that needs the use of a mordant) substantive

    Derived terms

    * adjectival * adjective clause * adjective phrase * adjective patterns * proper adjective * common adjective

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia adjective)
  • (grammar) A word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.
  • The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives .
  • (obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.
  • (Fuller)

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (adjectiv)
  • To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
  • * Tooke
  • Language has as much occasion to adjective' the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has ' adjectived all three.
  • * 1832 , William Hunter, An Anglo-Saxon grammar, and derivatives (page 46)
  • In English, instead of adjectiving' our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers, ' adjectived signs from other languages

    verb

    English

    (wikipedia verb)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state.
  • The word “speak” is an English verb .
  • (obsolete) Any word; a vocable.
  • (South)

    Usage notes

    Verbs compose a fundamental category of words in most languages. In an English clause, a verb forms the head of the predicate of the clause. In many languages, verbs uniquely conjugate for tense and aspect.

    Quotations

    * 2001 — , Artemis Fowl , p 221 *: Then you could say that the doorway exploded. But the particular verb doesn't do the action justice. Rather, it shattered into infinitesimal pieces.

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * adverb * anomalous verb * auxiliary verb * boot verb * copular verb * coverb * defective verb * ditransitive verb * dynamic verb * full verb * helping verb * impersonal verb * intransitive verb * irregular verb * linking verb * modal verb * passive verb * phrasal verb * preverb * reflexive verb * regular verb * serial verb * stative verb * subject-verb agreement * transitive verb * verb inflection * verb phrase * verb tense * verbal * verbal complement * verbal noun * verbal regency * verbless clause

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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 LATEX , p8
  • Nouns should never be verbed .
  • * 2005 Oct 5, Jeffrey Mattison, Letters'', in ''The Christian Science Monitor , p8
  • In English, verbing nouns is okay
  • 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''.

    See also

    * * copula * auxiliary verb * main verb English autological terms ----