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abbreviation (infl, en, abbreviation)
- (title) General
- (biblical) Book of Genesis
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noun
- (grammar) (uncountable) The genitive case; the inflection pattern (of any given language) that expresses origin or ownership and possession.
- (grammar) (countable) A word inflected in the genitive case; a word indicating origin, ownership or possession.
adjective
- (Grammar) Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses origin or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.
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noun
- (grammar) A verbal form that functions as a verbal noun. (In English, a gerund has the same spelling as a present participle, but functions differently.)
- In the phrase "Walking is good exercise.", walking is a .
- (grammar) In some languages such as Italian or Russian, a verbal form similar to a present participle, but functioning as an adverb. These words are sometimes referred to as conjunctive participles.
- In the Russian "�ел�з� пе�е�оди�� �ли�� �и�а� газе��." (One shouldn"t cross a street while reading a newspaper.), �и�а�'' "while reading" is a .
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noun
- (context, in Latin, _, grammar) a verbal adjective that describes obligation or necessity
- (context, less commonly, in English, _, grammar) a verbal adjective ending in -ing <ref name="Macquarie">the Australian Macquarie Dictionary (revised 3rd ed), second sense of Gerundive</ref>
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verb
- (transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
- (transitive) To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
- Govern yourselves like civilized people.
- a student who could not his impulses.
- (transitive) To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
- Chance usually governs the outcome of the game.
- (transitive) To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
- a valve that governs fuel intake.
- (intransitive) To exercise political authority; to run a government.
- (intransitive) To have or exercise a determining influence.
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noun
- the body with the power to make and/or enforce laws for a country, land area, people, or organization.
- a group of people who hold a monopoly on the legitimate use of force in a given territory.
- the state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power.
- the management or control of a system.
- the tenure of a chief of state.
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noun
- (countable) A system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language.
- (linguistics) (uncountable) The study of the internal structure of words (morphology) and the use of words in the construction of phrases and sentences (syntax).
- (countable) A book describing the rules of grammar of a language.
- (comptheory) (countable) A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
- (comptheory) (countable) A formal system defining a formal language
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noun - a person who studies grammar
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adjective
- (linguistics) Acceptable as a correct sentence or clause as determined by the rules and conventions of the grammar, or morpho-syntax of the language.
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