单词 | verb-noun |
释义 | > as lemmasverb-noun verb-noun n. now rare a form or derivative of a verb which in some respects functions like a noun, such as a verbal noun or gerund. ΚΠ 1864 Museum 1 Nov. 308/2 The relative might be called the ‘conjunction-pronoun’, and the verbal substantive the ‘verb-noun’. 1872 R. P. Smith Lat. Prose Exercises i. x. 23 The subject of the verb is is composed of the verb-noun to fear acting on death an object of its own. 1912 A. S. West Rev. Eng. Gram. (1914) 70 The forms To give and Giving are equivalent to Nouns. And as they are parts of a verb, we may describe them as Verb-Nouns. 1949 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 15 245/2 The verb noun differs as much from an ordinary noun as does the English infinitive. 2012 Nat. Lang. & Ling. Theory 30 903 Welsh finite verbs and verb-nouns are inserted as bare forms into derivations. < as lemmas |
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