单词 | verbing |
释义 | verbingn. rare before late 20th cent. The action or practice of converting words, esp. nouns, to verbs. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [noun] > conversion into verbing1766 verbification1785 verbalization1837 1766 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances IV. 60 As to the Nouning and Verbing, which he so heavily charged you with, I told him..that you never confounded Grammar. 1974 S. Malarkey & D. MacRae Themes in Lit. 188 About halfway through the poem Miss Swenson begins to play fast and loose with grammar, making verbs of nouns—it might be called the ‘verbing’ of nouns. 1985 Washington Post 27 May a19/3 I think it's worth wondering about role models. Or about role modeling if you belong to the ‘interfacing’, ‘accessing’, ‘networking’ school of verbing. 2010 Times 2 Mar. 23/5 Verbing is an honoured literary tradition... See Plutarch's Lives Englished by Sir Thomas North in 1579. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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