| 单词 | agent noun |
| 释义 | > as lemmasagent noun agent noun n. Grammar a noun (in English typically one ending in -er or -or) denoting someone or something that performs the action of a verb, as worker, accelerator, etc. [Compare post-classical Latin nomen agentis (1523 or earlier; > German Nomen agentis (1817 or earlier)), both apparently earliest in grammars of Semitic languages.] ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [noun] > other specific types of noun increaser1612 regulara1637 energizer1751 agent noun1782 nomen actionis1820 segolate1831 class noun1849 patrial1854 nomen agentis1859 metaplast1864 agent word1879 post-genitive1922 conversion-noun1928 noun adjective1930 head noun1933 relatum1933 actant1967 class name1994 1782 Key to French Lang. iii. 99 When Two or more Agent Nouns are coupled together by a Conjunction, though they be both of the Singular Number, yet the Verb must be put in the Plural. 1879 W. D. Whitney Sanskrit Gram. 374 There is hardly a suffix by which action-nouns are formed which does not also make agent-nouns or adjectives. 1960 Amer. Speech 35 120 Short-time..had an agent noun, a short-timer. 2000 O. A. Oronce et al. Computer Technol. for Kids 2 i. 16 The word computer is the agent noun formed from the verb compute. It means a person or device that computes. < as lemmas |
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