Sentence examples for verb means from inspiring English sources

"Affect" as a verb means "influence".

After all, to catwalk (verb) means to show off.

"Diffuse" as a verb means to spread out.

Intern (verb) means to detain or to imprison and does not mean to inter or to bury.

From the stylebook: center v .. Do not write center around because the verb means gather at a point.

According to the slang dictionary, to crawfish, an intransitive verb, means to move away backward, to turn tail, to back out of a commitment or to renege.

Study 1 validated preferential looking measures by replicating Experiment 2 of Yuan & Fisher (2009), which found that 2-year-olds could store information about the syntactic structure of a novel verb even before learning what the verb meant.

Which of these phrasal verbs means to make a mistake?

Even for simpler formulations based solely on verb frequency, the relative scarcity of many of the relevant verbs means that entrenchment will presumably remain unreliable until a very large volume of data has been encountered.

As a verb, it means "mourn, lament"; as a noun, it means "sorrow" but is not a form of contrition, admitting sin or guilt; rather, regret is condolence without culpability.

The verb tack means to attach or add and the noun tack means a tiny nail, a course of action, or the direction of a ship.