Sentence examples for a common verb from inspiring English sources

Or, thanks to Foursquare's relatively new API, you can also check-in to a venue simply by foodspotting (yes, the service hopes the name becomes a common verb).

The internet is a series of interfaces, a series of images, infinitely reproducible and malleable, but it's what we turn to with regularity, enough for the word "google" to be a common verb, for information we trust as truth, as proof.

Although we did not anticipate this effect, a possible explanation is that because higher constraint nouns are more easily associated with a common verb response, it may, in turn, be easier to generate an uncommon response for these nouns simply by choosing anything except the first word that comes to mind.

A high-constraint noun is one for which there is a single common verb associate (e.g., for "scissors," almost all participants say "cut").

A low-constraint noun is one for which there is not a single common verb associate (e.g., for "house," the verb "live").

For example, as seen in Table 1, the word 'express' is used as a trigger word for the gene expression event, but the word 'express' is a very common verb and used in many different meanings.

By design, the two word lists did not differ in terms of their average constraint, where constraint refers to the extent to which the noun is associated with a single common verb associate.

To "next" someone has become a common transitive verb.

But a common colloquial verb for bribing is podmazyvat', literally "to under-grease"; the "under" prefix in Russian implies something done surreptitiously.

"Constraint Level" was determined using a median split of the frequency of the most common verb responses, as described in the main text.

For instance the common verb sik, depending on how you sing it, can mean to eat or to know, so you run the risk of either being very well acquainted with your rice or really happy to be eating your friend.