something added to complete or embellish or make perfect; "a fine wine is a perfect complement to the dinner"; "wild rice was served a…
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(of verbs) not having tense, person, or number (as a participle or gerund or infinitive); "infinite verb form"
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relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law; "adjective law"
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.of or relating to or functioning as an adverb; "adverbial syntax"
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.(grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate functioning as a part of a complex sentence
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete; "a relative stranger"
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.something added to complete or embellish or make perfect; "a fine wine is a perfect complement to the dinner"; "wild rice was served a…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Clauses and phrases.bring into common action, movement, or condition; "coordinate the painters, masons, and plumbers"; "coordinate his actions with that o…
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.(of verbs) relating to forms of the verb that are limited in time by a tense and (usually) show agreement with number and person
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 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 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.the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition
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.divide, combine, or mark into phrases; "phrase a musical passage"
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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 signifying to make, to cause, used to form verbs from nouns and adjectives; as in strengthen, quicken, frighten. This must no…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verbs, tense, number, participle, gerund.A verb ending, originally appearing in certain verbs of French origin; as, abolish, cherish, finish, furnish, garnish, impoverish.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verbs, tense, number, participle, gerund.A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, d…
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.The past participle of Be. In old authors it is also the pr. tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: verbs, tense, number, participle, gerund.To effect as an agent; to produce; to be the occasion of; to bring about; to bring into existence; to make; -- usually followed by an…
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.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.A verb formed from another verb by a change of termination, and expressing the desire of doing that which is indicated by the primitiv…
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.
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