verb

The word “speak” is an English verb.

In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…]

1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] , London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, page 32; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972:

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

a Verb of the Singular

1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

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

(figurative) An action as opposed to a trait or thing.

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.

1995, Adam Denning, OLE Controls Inside Out, page 321:

The InfiniBand verbs, which are closely modeled in the “Gen2” interface, provide the functional specification for the operations that should be allowed on an InfiniBand compliant adapter.

2016, Ada Gavrilovska, Attaining High Performance Communications: A Vertical Approach:

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

werkwoord

(grammar) a word that indicates an action, event, or a state

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.


verb

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a. 1981 Feb 22, unknown Guardian editor as quoted by William Safire, On Language, in New York Times, pSM3

I like to verb words.... I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now it's something you DO. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language.

1993 January 25, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes:

Nouns should never be verbed.

1997, David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham, learning LAT_EX, page 8:

In English, verbing nouns is okay

2005 October 5, Jeffrey Mattison, “Letters”, in The Christian Science Monitor, page 8:

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

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

1946, Rand Corporation, The Rand Paper Series:

Each sentence had the same basic structure: The subject transitive verbed the object who intransitive verbed in the location.

1964, Journal of Mathematical Psychology:

The sentence frame was Dan verbed Ben approaching the store. This sentence frame was followed in all cases by He went inside.

1998, Marilyn A. Walker, Aravind Krishna Joshi, Centering Theory in Discourse:

(linguistics, social sciences) Used as a placeholder for any verb.

en-verb

verb (third-person singular simple present verbs, present participle verbing, simple past and past participle verbed)

verbs (present singular third-person)
verbing (participle present)
verbed (participle past)
verbed (past)
verb (infinitive)


verb

verbet (definite singular)
or verber (indefinite plural verb)
verba (definite plural)
verbene (definite plural)


verb

verbet (definite singular)
verb (indefinite plural)
verba (definite plural)


verb

verbe (plural)
verb (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
verbul (accusative definite nominative singular)
verbe (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
verbele (accusative definite nominative plural)
verb (indefinite singular)
verbului (definite singular)
verbe (indefinite singular)
verbelor (definite plural)
verbule (singular vocative)
verbelor (vocative)


verb

verb (indefinite nominative singular)
verbs (genitive indefinite singular)
verbet (definite nominative singular)
verbets (definite genitive singular)
verb (indefinite nominative plural)
verbs (genitive indefinite plural)
verben (definite nominative plural)
verbens (definite genitive plural)

→ Finnish: verbi

→ Ingrian: verbi


verb

verb (nominative singular)
verbad (nominative plural)
verban (accusative singular)
verbad (accusative plural)
verban (genitive singular)
verboiden (genitive plural)
verbad (partitive singular)
verboid (partitive plural)
verban (essive-instructive singular)
verboin (essive-instructive plural)
verbaks (singular translative)
verboikš (plural translative)
verbas (inessive singular)
verboiš (inessive plural)
verbaspäi (elative singular)
verboišpäi (elative plural)
verbaha (illative singular)
verboihe (illative plural)
verbal (adessive singular)
verboil (adessive plural)
verbalpäi (ablative singular)
verboilpäi (ablative plural)
verbale (allative singular)
verboile (allative plural)
verbata (abessive singular)
verboita (abessive plural)
verbanke (comitative singular)
verboidenke (comitative plural)
verbadme (prolative singular)
verboidme (plural prolative)
verbanno (approximative approximative-i singular)
verboidenno (approximative approximative-i plural)
verbannoks (approximative approximative-ii singular)
verboidennoks (approximative approximative-ii plural)
verbannopäi (egressive singular)
verboidennopäi (egressive plural)
verbahasai (singular terminative terminative-i)
verboihesai (plural terminative terminative-i)
verbalesai (singular terminative terminative-ii)
verboilesai (plural terminative terminative-ii)
verbassai (singular terminative terminative-iii)
verbahapäi (additive additive-i singular)
verboihepäi (additive additive-i plural)
verbalepäi (additive additive-ii singular)
verboilepäi (additive additive-ii plural)