That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thin…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.Nonfinite
(of verbs) not having tense, person, or number (as a participle or gerund or infinitive); "infinite verb form"
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Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; pap…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.Of or pertaining to comparison.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.Equal in rank or order; not subordinate.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.a clause in a complex sentence that is grammatically equivalent to the main clause and that performs the same grammatical function
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adje…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.Having a limit; limited in quantity, degree, or capacity; bounded; -- opposed to infinite; as, finite number; finite existence; a fini…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.Unlimited or boundless, in time or space; as, infinite duration or distance.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.(of verbs) not having tense, person, or number (as a participle or gerund or infinitive); "infinite verb form"
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.Words connected by meaning
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A suffix forming nouns of action, and often equivalent to the verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of sta…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verbs, tense, number, participle, gerund.The termination of the past participle of regular, or weak, verbs; also, of analogous participial adjectives from nouns; as, pigmented…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verbs, tense, number, participle, gerund.A suffix from AS. -an, formerly used to form the plural of many nouns, as in ashen, eyen, oxen, all obs. except oxen. In some cases, s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verbs, tense, number, participle, gerund.A suffix used to from adjectives from nouns and from adjectives. It denotes relation, resemblance, similarity, and sometimes has a dim…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verbs, tense, number, participle, gerund.Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verbs, tense, number, participle, gerund.a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verbs, tense, number, participle, gerund.of Be
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verbs, tense, number, participle, gerund.That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verbs, tense, number, participle, gerund.In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verbs, tense, number, participle, gerund.a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.; "Also c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verbs, tense, number, participle, gerund.Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verbs, tense, number, participle, gerund.In the manner of a gerund; as, or in place of, a gerund.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verbs, tense, number, participle, gerund.Explore Academic Dictionary
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