Verged vs Verbed - What's the difference?
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(verge)
A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
# The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge .
An edge or border.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Even though we go to the extreme verge of possibility to invent a supposition favourable to it, the theoryimplies an absurdity.
*(Matthew Arnold) (1822-1888)
*:But on the horizon's verge descried, / Hangs, touched with light, one snowy sail.
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
# The grassy area between the sidewalk and the street; a tree lawn.
#(lb) An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.
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(lb) The phallus.
#(lb) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc.
An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
A circumference; a circle; a ring.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:The inclusive verge / Of golden metal that must round my brow.
(lb) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
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(lb) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
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(lb) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
To be or come very close; to border; to approach.
(verb)
(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
As verbs the difference between verged and verbed
is that verged is past tense of verge while verbed is past tense of verb.verged
English
Verb
(head)verge
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , of unknown origin. Earliest attested sense in English is now-obsolete meaning "male member, penis" (c.1400). Modern sense is from the notion of 'within the verge' (1509, also as (etyl) dedeinz la verge ), i.e. "subject to the Lord High Steward's authority" (as symbolized by the rod of office), originally a 12-mile radius round the royal court, which sense shifted to "the outermost edge of an expanse or area."Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (strip of land between street and sidewalk) see list at (m)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (compare versus); strongly influenced by the above noun.Verb
(verg)- Eating blowfish verges on insanity.
References
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English
Verb
(head)verb
English
(wikipedia verb)Noun
(en noun)- The word “speak” is an English verb .
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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
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- 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''.
