Sentence examples for a verb from from inspiring English sources

chancer A verb from American English meaning "to tax" OK, it's in the Oxford English Dictionary – but do you know what 'cis' means?

One encounters applicants, smart as paint, with four As at A-level, who wouldn't know a noun from a ninepin or a verb from a vole.

Shape A Tibetan councillor chancer A verb from American English meaning "to tax" Calabazilla A wild Mexican squash wading-place Used to refer to a ford swamp fuchsia Common name in Australian English for Eremophilia maculata, a species found in Queensland.

This may be a low level of interpretation, of course; simply ascertaining the correct subject of a sentence where no subject is present, or inferring a verb from a prior occurrence, without going into any metaphysical speculations.

We thus define each competency as a triple (K, S, P) where K is a knowledge element, a class, a property or an individual from a domain ontology, S is a generic skill (a verb) from a taxonomy of skills, and P is the result of combining performance criteria values.

At the state level the seemingly simple change of a verb from the sheriff "may" issue a concealed carry permit to the sheriff "shall," which went into effect two years ago produced these results: Number of concealed carry permits in Dubuque County: 2008: 120092009: 119; 20119119; 201192007.

TO GOOGLE is now in broad usage as a verb for retrieving information from the internet.

Few verbs here intend anything less than to gob deliciously in the mouth--The Banjo Clock wouldn't know a workaday verb from a four-pocketed kangaroo--and most of its nouns are gestural, that is to say, allegorical.

Typically, a "backformation" is a verb derived from a noun, as to scavenge is derived from a scavenger.

Though not even the Oxford dictionary records it, this must be a verb formed from the old stean, an urn.

Google has created the most popular Internet search engine, one so dominant that a verb made from its name has become a part of the lexicon.