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noun
adj
adj
- (grammar) Used to form a verb.
- (grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
- Expressly spoken rather than written; oral.
- Word for word.
- Of or relating to words.
- Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
- Capable of speech.
- Consisting of words only.
- of or relating to or formed from a verb
- expressed in spoken words
- communicated in the form of words
- tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length
- relating to or having facility in the use of words
- of or relating to or formed from words in general
noun
- (uncountable, UK, Ireland, colloquial) Talk; speech, especially banter or scolding.
- (countable, UK, Ireland) A spoken confession given to police.
- (countable, grammar) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.
verb
adj
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to a substantive.
- (chemistry, of a dye) Not needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
- (military, of a rank or appointment) Actually and legally held, as distinct from an acting, temporary or honorary rank or appointment.
- Of the essence or essential element of a thing.
- Depending on itself; independent.
- Having substance; enduring; solid; firm; substantial.
- (law) Applying to essential legal principles and rules of right.
- (by extension) Constituting the substance of content rather than its style, and thus always nontrivial.
- being on topic and prompting thought
- defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
- of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something
noun
verb
noun
- (grammar) A modal verb.
- (fabric) A semi-synthetic fabric, a very soft kind of rayon textile made from beech tree pulp and processed with chemicals.
- (graphical user interface) A modal window, one that cannot be closed until a decision is made.
- (logic) A modal proposition.
- (linguistics) A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary.
- an auxiliary verb (such as ‘can’ or ‘will’) that is used to express modality
adj
- Of, or relating to a mode or modus.
- (graphical user interface) Requiring immediate user interaction and thus presented so that it cannot be closed or interacted behind until a decision is made.
- (music) Of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical — music.
- (computing) Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
- (logic) Of, or relating to the modality between propositions.
- (metaphysics) Relating to the form of a thing rather to any of its attributes.
- (of music, by extension) In a mode which is not major or minor scale, the standard modes used in the Western musical tradition.
- (statistics) Relating to the statistical mode.
- (grammar) Of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause.
- relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
- relating to or expressing the mood of a verb
- of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode
noun
adj
- As used by Carl Jung, the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.
- Resulting from or pertaining to personal mindsets or experience, arising from perceptive mental conditions within the brain and not necessarily or directly from external stimuli.
- Pertaining to subjects as opposed to objects (A subject is one who perceives or is aware; an object is the thing perceived or the thing that the subject is aware of.)
- (linguistics, grammar) Describing conjugation of a verb that indicates only the subject (agent), not indicating the object (patient) of the action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
- (philosophy, psychology) Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.
- Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, rather than upon observation or purely logical reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.
- Lacking in reality or substance.
- of a mental act performed entirely within the mind
- taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias
adj
noun
noun
- (linguistics) noun
- (chess) knight
- north (see also n)
- (military) navy
- Abbreviation of neutral (“gear selection”).
- a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 m/sec/sec to a mass of 1 kilogram; equal to 100,000 dynes
- the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees
- (of a solution) concentration expressed in gram equivalents of solute per liter
- the 14th letter of the Roman alphabet
- a common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas; constitutes 78 percent of the atmosphere by volume; a constituent of all living tissues
character
num
noun
- (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.
- (computing, object-oriented programming) An option or setting belonging to some object.
- (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
- An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.
- A characteristic or quality of a thing.
- (programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
- an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity
- a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished
verb
noun
adj
- (rare) Not transitive or passing further; kept; detained.
- (probability) Of a set of dice: containing three dice A, B, and C, with the property that A rolls higher than B more than half the time, and B rolls higher than C more than half the time, but lacking the property that A rolls higher than C more than half the time. See intransitive dice and intransitive game.
- (grammar, of a verb) Not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object.
- designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object
noun
adj
noun
- (grammar) In many languages: a pronoun that makes a transitive verb reflexive or reciprocal.
- (grammar) In English: a personal pronoun, having a form of "-self" as a suffix to show that the subject's action affects the subject itself.
- a personal pronoun compounded with ‘-self’ to show the agent's action affects the agent
noun
- (grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, which indicates the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
- (literature) A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
- (music) In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
- Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.
- One who speaks; a speaker.
- (Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether they can send messages to the channel.
- The tone or sound emitted by an object.
- (figurative) An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered.
- (phonetics) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
- The faculty or power of utterance.
- That which is communicated; message; meaning.
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.
- a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
- the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
- something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
- an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- (metonymy) a singer
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
- the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
- the ability to speak
verb
- (television, film) To act as a voice actor to portray a character.
- (transitive) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
- (transitive) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of
- (transitive, Internet, IRC) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
- (transitive, phonology) To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
- give voice to
- utter with vibrating vocal chords
noun
- (grammar) Object.
- (grammar) A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.
- (medicine) Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.
- Orderly government; system of order; administration.
- (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet)
noun
- (grammar) The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
- (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
- The quality of being side by side, apposed instead of opposed, next to each other.
- (UK) A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.
- (rhetoric) Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required.
- A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
- A public disputation by scholars.
- (biology) The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
- (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
- the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
- a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows
noun
- (grammar) a noun or pronoun in the objective case.
- A material object that physically exists.
- A goal that is striven for.
- The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.
- (grammar) The objective case.
- the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
- the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed
adj
- (linguistics, grammar) Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
- (grammar) Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.
- Not influenced by the strong emotions or prejudices.
- Based on observed facts; without purely subjective assessment.
- Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
- belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events
- emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation
- undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena
- serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes
noun
- (grammar) The function of a word in a phrase.
- The function or position of something.
- A character or part played by a performer or actor.
- (historical) An ancient unit of quantity, 72 sheets of parchment.
- (object-oriented programming) In the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for composition of classes without adding to their inheritance chain.
- Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, or privileges
- The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.
- normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- what something is used for
noun
adj
- (ecclesiastical law) Of a benefice, or the advowsons, tithes, etc., associated with a benefice: that a patron has the right to present.
- Presenting, or able to represent, an idea in the mind.
- (grammar) Serving to present something, or draw it to the attention of the interlocutor.
- (metaphysics, psychology) Of or pertaining to a presentation (“an image formed in the mind after an object is perceived”).
noun
- (linguistics, grammar) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.
- One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
- A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care.
- a person who requires medical care
- the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
adj
noun
- (grammar) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
- A falling off, decay or descent.
- (grammar) The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
- (grammar) The product of that act; a list of declined forms.
- the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages
- process of changing to an inferior state
- a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
- a downward slope or bend
noun
adj
- Producing accusations; in a manner that reflects a finding of fault or blame
- (grammar) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin, Lithuanian and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb has its limited influence. Other parts of speech, including secondary or predicate direct objects, will also influence a sentence’s construction. In German the case used for direct objects.
- containing or expressing accusation
- serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes
noun
- (grammar) Abbreviation of vocative case.
- Abbreviation of vowel.
- A flying skein of geese or other birds which have placed themselves in a V-shaped formation.
- Abbreviation of velocity.
- (UK, Ireland) A V-sign; by extension, an insult or show of defiance.
- (linguistics) Abbreviation of verb.
- (slang, countable) Viagra.
- (euphemistic) Vagina.
- Anything shaped like a V
- the 22nd letter of the Roman alphabet
- a unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt; equivalent to the potential difference across a resistance of 1 ohm when 1 ampere of current flows through it
- the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
- a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite
character
name
symbol
noun
adj
noun
- (grammar) Forms of pronouns or verbs used for the speaker or writer of the sentence in which they occur.
- A form of narrative writing using verbs in the first person in order to give the impression that the action is happening to the narrator.
- pronouns and verbs used to refer to the speaker or writer of the language in which they occur
adj
noun
noun
adj
noun
- (grammar) A modal verb.
- (fabric) A semi-synthetic fabric, a very soft kind of rayon textile made from beech tree pulp and processed with chemicals.
- (graphical user interface) A modal window, one that cannot be closed until a decision is made.
- (logic) A modal proposition.
- (linguistics) A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary.
- an auxiliary verb (such as ‘can’ or ‘will’) that is used to express modality
adj
- Of, or relating to a mode or modus.
- (graphical user interface) Requiring immediate user interaction and thus presented so that it cannot be closed or interacted behind until a decision is made.
- (music) Of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical — music.
- (computing) Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
- (logic) Of, or relating to the modality between propositions.
- (metaphysics) Relating to the form of a thing rather to any of its attributes.
- (of music, by extension) In a mode which is not major or minor scale, the standard modes used in the Western musical tradition.
- (statistics) Relating to the statistical mode.
- (grammar) Of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause.
- relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
- relating to or expressing the mood of a verb
- of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode
noun
adj
- As used by Carl Jung, the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.
- Resulting from or pertaining to personal mindsets or experience, arising from perceptive mental conditions within the brain and not necessarily or directly from external stimuli.
- Pertaining to subjects as opposed to objects (A subject is one who perceives or is aware; an object is the thing perceived or the thing that the subject is aware of.)
- (linguistics, grammar) Describing conjugation of a verb that indicates only the subject (agent), not indicating the object (patient) of the action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
- (philosophy, psychology) Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.
- Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, rather than upon observation or purely logical reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.
- Lacking in reality or substance.
- of a mental act performed entirely within the mind
- taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias
noun
- (linguistics) noun
- (chess) knight
- north (see also n)
- (military) navy
- Abbreviation of neutral (“gear selection”).
- a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 m/sec/sec to a mass of 1 kilogram; equal to 100,000 dynes
- the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees
- (of a solution) concentration expressed in gram equivalents of solute per liter
- the 14th letter of the Roman alphabet
- a common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas; constitutes 78 percent of the atmosphere by volume; a constituent of all living tissues
character
num
noun
- (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.
- (computing, object-oriented programming) An option or setting belonging to some object.
- (logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
- An object that is considered typical of someone or some function, in particular as an artistic convention.
- A characteristic or quality of a thing.
- (programming) A semantic item with which a method or other code element may be decorated.
- an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity
- a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished
verb
noun
adj
- (rare) Not transitive or passing further; kept; detained.
- (probability) Of a set of dice: containing three dice A, B, and C, with the property that A rolls higher than B more than half the time, and B rolls higher than C more than half the time, but lacking the property that A rolls higher than C more than half the time. See intransitive dice and intransitive game.
- (grammar, of a verb) Not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object.
- designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object
noun
adj
noun
- (grammar) In many languages: a pronoun that makes a transitive verb reflexive or reciprocal.
- (grammar) In English: a personal pronoun, having a form of "-self" as a suffix to show that the subject's action affects the subject itself.
- a personal pronoun compounded with ‘-self’ to show the agent's action affects the agent
noun
- (grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, which indicates the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
- (literature) A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
- (music) In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
- Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.
- One who speaks; a speaker.
- (Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether they can send messages to the channel.
- The tone or sound emitted by an object.
- (figurative) An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered.
- (phonetics) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
- The faculty or power of utterance.
- That which is communicated; message; meaning.
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.
- a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
- the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
- something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
- an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- (metonymy) a singer
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
- the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
- the ability to speak
verb
- (television, film) To act as a voice actor to portray a character.
- (transitive) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
- (transitive) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of
- (transitive, Internet, IRC) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
- (transitive, phonology) To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
- give voice to
- utter with vibrating vocal chords
noun
- (grammar) Object.
- (grammar) A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.
- (medicine) Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.
- Orderly government; system of order; administration.
- (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet)
noun
- (grammar) The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
- (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
- The quality of being side by side, apposed instead of opposed, next to each other.
- (UK) A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.
- (rhetoric) Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required.
- A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
- A public disputation by scholars.
- (biology) The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
- (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
- the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
- a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows
noun
- (grammar) a noun or pronoun in the objective case.
- A material object that physically exists.
- A goal that is striven for.
- The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.
- (grammar) The objective case.
- the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
- the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed
adj
- (linguistics, grammar) Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
- (grammar) Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.
- Not influenced by the strong emotions or prejudices.
- Based on observed facts; without purely subjective assessment.
- Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
- belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events
- emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation
- undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena
- serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes
noun
- (grammar) The function of a word in a phrase.
- The function or position of something.
- A character or part played by a performer or actor.
- (historical) An ancient unit of quantity, 72 sheets of parchment.
- (object-oriented programming) In the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for composition of classes without adding to their inheritance chain.
- Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, or privileges
- The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.
- normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- what something is used for
noun
adj
- (ecclesiastical law) Of a benefice, or the advowsons, tithes, etc., associated with a benefice: that a patron has the right to present.
- Presenting, or able to represent, an idea in the mind.
- (grammar) Serving to present something, or draw it to the attention of the interlocutor.
- (metaphysics, psychology) Of or pertaining to a presentation (“an image formed in the mind after an object is perceived”).
noun
- (linguistics, grammar) The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.
- One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
- A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care.
- a person who requires medical care
- the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
adj
noun
- (grammar) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
- A falling off, decay or descent.
- (grammar) The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
- (grammar) The product of that act; a list of declined forms.
- the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages
- process of changing to an inferior state
- a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
- a downward slope or bend
noun
adj
- Producing accusations; in a manner that reflects a finding of fault or blame
- (grammar) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin, Lithuanian and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb has its limited influence. Other parts of speech, including secondary or predicate direct objects, will also influence a sentence’s construction. In German the case used for direct objects.
- containing or expressing accusation
- serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes
noun
- (grammar) Abbreviation of vocative case.
- Abbreviation of vowel.
- A flying skein of geese or other birds which have placed themselves in a V-shaped formation.
- Abbreviation of velocity.
- (UK, Ireland) A V-sign; by extension, an insult or show of defiance.
- (linguistics) Abbreviation of verb.
- (slang, countable) Viagra.
- (euphemistic) Vagina.
- Anything shaped like a V
- the 22nd letter of the Roman alphabet
- a unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt; equivalent to the potential difference across a resistance of 1 ohm when 1 ampere of current flows through it
- the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
- a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite
character
name
symbol
noun
adj
noun
- (grammar) Forms of pronouns or verbs used for the speaker or writer of the sentence in which they occur.
- A form of narrative writing using verbs in the first person in order to give the impression that the action is happening to the narrator.
- pronouns and verbs used to refer to the speaker or writer of the language in which they occur
adj
- (grammar) Used to form a verb.
- (grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
- Expressly spoken rather than written; oral.
- Word for word.
- Of or relating to words.
- Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
- Capable of speech.
- Consisting of words only.
- of or relating to or formed from a verb
- expressed in spoken words
- communicated in the form of words
- tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length
- relating to or having facility in the use of words
- of or relating to or formed from words in general
noun
- (uncountable, UK, Ireland, colloquial) Talk; speech, especially banter or scolding.
- (countable, UK, Ireland) A spoken confession given to police.
- (countable, grammar) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.
verb
adj
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to a substantive.
- (chemistry, of a dye) Not needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
- (military, of a rank or appointment) Actually and legally held, as distinct from an acting, temporary or honorary rank or appointment.
- Of the essence or essential element of a thing.
- Depending on itself; independent.
- Having substance; enduring; solid; firm; substantial.
- (law) Applying to essential legal principles and rules of right.
- (by extension) Constituting the substance of content rather than its style, and thus always nontrivial.
- being on topic and prompting thought
- defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
- of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something