According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
VERB
verb
(noun) the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence
verb
(noun) a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
verb (plural verbs)
(grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state.
(obsolete) Any word; a vocable.
(figurative) An action as opposed to a trait or thing.
(programming) A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.
Usage notes
Verbs compose a fundamental category of words in most languages. In an English clause, a verb forms the head of the predicate of the clause. In many languages, verbs uniquely conjugate for tense and aspect.
Hyponyms
• See: verb
Verb
verb (third-person singular simple present verbs, present participle verbing, simple past and past participle verbed)
(transitive, nonstandard, colloquial) To use any word that is not, or had not been a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
(used as a neutral, unspecific verb, often in linguistics and the social sciences) To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.
Anagrams
• brev
Source: Wiktionary
Verb, n. Etym: [F. verbe, L. verbum a word, verb. See Word.]
1. A word; a vocable. [Obs.] South.
2. (Gram.)
Definition: A word which affirms or predicates something of some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering of action.
Note: A verb is a word whereby the chief action of the mind [the assertion or the denial of a proposition] finds expression. Earle. Active verb, Auxiliary verb, Neuter verb, etc. See Active, Auxiliary, Neuter, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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