Participle

Word PARTICIPLE
Character 10
Hyphenation par ti ci ple
Pronunciations /pɑːˈtɪsɪpəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Participle"

What do we mean by participle?

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective, as the past participle baked in We had some baked beans, and is used with an auxiliary verb to indicate tense, aspect, or voice, as the past participle baked in the passive sentence The beans were baked too long. noun

Whatever partakes of the nature of two or more other things; something that is part one thing and part another; a mongrel. noun

In gram., a verbal adjective that participates or shares in the construction of the verb to which it belongs, and so has in a certain manner and degree a place in the verbal system; a word having the value of an adjective as part of speech, but so regularly made from a verb, and associated with it in meaning and construction, as to seem to belong to the verb. noun

A part of speech partaking of the nature of both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles. noun

Anything that partakes of the nature of different things. noun

A form of a verb that may function as an adjective or noun. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. noun

A non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses noun

(grammar) A form of a verb that may function as an adjective or noun. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. In other languages, there are others, such as future, perfect, and future perfect participles.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Participle

The word "participle" in example sentences

In the sentence, The worm _crushed_ under my foot died, _crushed_, expressing the action as assumed, is, as you have already learned, a participle; and, as the action is completed, we call it a _past participle_. ❋ Brainerd Kellogg (N/A)

The thing we call a participle, being a mixture of a verb and noun is nothing of itself, as are not the common names of male and female qualities (i. e, adjectives), but in construction it is put with others, in regard of tenses belonging to verbs, in regard of cases to nouns. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The past participle is here coincident in time with the preceding verb, ye were ❋ Unknown (1871)

But worse, it’s completely unclear who the dangling participle is supposed to refer to. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The verb form in all these cases is called a participle, and must be used in connection with either a nominative or objective case of a noun or pronoun. ❋ Thomas Wood (N/A)

"A participle is a form of a verb partaking of the nature of an adjective or a noun and expressing action or _human_ being as flying and sleep." ❋ Various (N/A)

-- _Hearing_ is a form of the verb called participle because the act expressed by it is merely assumed, and it shares the nature of an adjective and that of a verb. ❋ Brainerd Kellogg (N/A)

This emphatic use of the participle is a more unmitigated Hebraism than the other forms of the etymological figure. ❋ 1856-1924 (1905)

But we find sentences in the LXX in which a participle is the only verb. ❋ 1856-1924 (1905)

A participle is a word that describes a noun or pronoun, by assigning to it a certain action or state. ❋ Unknown (1863)

This use of the participle is a Latinism: see note, l. ❋ John Milton (1641)

One form that may fit could be the active G-stem participle which is reconstructed to be of the vocalic structure of CāCiC-. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Shírah” = juice in Arabic garb) and have coined a participle “Musayrij” e.g., ❋ Unknown (2006)

Arabic garb) and have coined a participle "Musayrij" e.g., ❋ Anonymous (1855)

The Latin was in fact the past participle, “drawn tight,” of the Latin verb stringere, “to draw tight.” ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

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