What is the difference between adjective and verb?
adjective | verb |
(obsolete) Incapable of independent function.
* 1899 , , Emerson and Other Essays , AMS Press (1969) (as [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13088 reproduced] in Project Gutenberg)
(grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
(legal) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
* Macaulay
(chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.
(obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.
To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
* Tooke
* 1832 , William Hunter, An Anglo-Saxon grammar, and derivatives (page 46)
(grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state.
(obsolete) Any word; a vocable.
(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
* 1997 , David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham, learning LATEX , p8
* 2005 Oct 5, Jeffrey Mattison, Letters'', in ''The Christian Science Monitor , p8
To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.
* 1946 : Rand Corporation, The Rand Paper Series
* 1964 : Journal of Mathematical Psychology
* 1998 : Marilyn A. Walker, Aravind Krishna Joshi, Centering Theory in Discourse
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
(-)- 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.
- The whole English law, substantive and adjective .
Synonyms
* (incapable of independent function) dependent, derivative * (functioning as an adjective) adjectival * (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure) proceduralAntonyms
* (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure) substantive * (of a dye that needs the use of a mordant) substantiveDerived terms
* adjectival * adjective clause * adjective phrase * adjective patterns * proper adjective * common adjectiveNoun
(en noun) (wikipedia adjective)- The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives .
- (Fuller)
Hyponyms
* See alsoVerb
(adjectiv)- 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.
- 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)- The word “speak” is an English verb .
- (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 alsoDerived 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 clauseVerb
(en 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... .
- Nouns should never be verbed .
- In English, verbing nouns is okay
- For example, one-part versions of the proposition "The doctor pursued the lawyer" were "The doctor verbed the object," ...
- Each sentence had the same basic structure: ''The subject transitive verbed''' the object who intransitive '''verbed in the location''.
- The sentence frame was ''Dan verbed Ben approaching the store''. This sentence frame was followed in all cases by ''He went inside''.