verb

noun

1. A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.

   “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[…]”

2. (obsolete)Any word; a vocable.

   “a Verb of the Singular”

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

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

4. A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.

   “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.”

   “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.”

5. Reverb.

verb

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

   “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.”

   “Nouns should never be verbed.”

   “In English, verbing nouns is okay”

   “Records have been broken, races have been dedicated, dreams have been dreamed, starts have been falsed and nouns have been verbed.”

2. Used as a placeholder for any verb.

   “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.”