In Experiment 2, we tested all 264 verbs in two of the narrowly defined verb classes from this new taxonomy, finding that pronoun-resolution biases were categorically different.
The use of the phrase Dienst Service refers to a software module that provides the functionality of a set verbs defined for that service in the Dienst protocol.
We also know that "almost" is mostly used as an adverb, and adverbs can define a verb, adjective or another adverb.
The simple switch in the survey, from a verb defining an action (voting), to a noun defining the self, (voter), dramatically increased turnout.
For example, people who took a survey on "being a voter" were much more likely to actually vote than people who took the same survey about "voting". The simple switch in the survey, from a verb defining an action (voting), to a noun defining the self, (voter), dramatically increased turnout.
In an 1829 citation in J. E. Lighter's Historical Dictionary of American Slang, The Camden Journal in South Carolina defined the verb absquatulize as "to top one's broom, to hop the twig, to go on leg-bail".
We have constructed a mapping table that defines the verb to be used for the 1463 GOMFs used in Reactome.
To put it in grammatical terms, they view the Gulf South as being defined by verbs as much as nouns.
The irrational orthodoxy drove enlightened Royals fans up the wall, but all they could do was shake their heads and shrug that the team had yet again been "Yosted," a verb best defined as a dugout version of being hoisted with one's own petard.
Published as a paperback original, "The Thieves of Manhattan" comes with its own glossary, allowing Mr. Langer to define the verb in a sentence like this: "The story was woolfing out of me in one long, unpunctuated stream".
The lexicographer Sol Steinmetz, in his thoughtful "Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America" just published by the University of Alabama Press, defines the verb and noun as "drag," and a shleper as "a bum"; he spells the words without the c, and does not double the p (as I do, to avoid the confusion with sleeper).
