verbs

verb

noun

{bc}a word that characteristically is the grammatical center of a predicate and expresses an act, occurrence, or mode of being, that in various languages is inflected for agreement with the subject, for tense, for voice, for mood, or for aspect, and that typically has rather full descriptive meaning and characterizing quality but is sometimes nearly devoid of these especially when used as an auxiliary or linking verb

verb

verb

{bc}to use (a word and especially a noun) as a {d_link|verb|verb:1} {bc}to make (a word) into a verb

auxiliary

noun

{bc}an {d_link|auxiliary|auxiliary:1} person, group, or device

helping verb

noun

{bc}{sx|auxiliary verb|auxiliary:2|}

linking verb

noun

{bc}a word or expression (such as a form of {it}be, become, feel{/it}, or {it}seem{/it}) that links a subject with its predicate

pro-verb

noun

{bc}a form of the verb {it}do{/it} used to avoid repetition of a verb (such as {it}do{/it} in u0022act as I dou0022)