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Conjunction vs Verb - What's the difference?

conjunction | verb |

In obsolete terms the difference between conjunction and verb

is that conjunction is sexual intercourse while verb is any word; a vocable.

In grammar terms the difference between conjunction and verb

is that conjunction is a word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related. Example: Bread, butter and cheese.verb is a word that indicates an action, event, or state.

As nouns the difference between conjunction and verb

is that conjunction is the act of joining, or condition of being joined while verb is a word that indicates an action, event, or state.

As a verb verb is

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

conjunction

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
  • (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
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  • (grammar) A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related. Example: Bread, butter and cheese.
  • (astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
  • (astrology) An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
  • (logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the (\and) operator.
  • Coordinate terms

    * (in logic) disjunction

    Hypernyms

    * (in logic) logical connective

    Meronyms

    * (in logic) conjunct

    Derived terms

    * inferior conjunction * superior conjunction * conjunctive normal form

    See also

    * disjunction

    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 ----