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PARTICIPLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does participle mean?
• PARTICIPLE (noun)
The noun PARTICIPLE has 1 sense:
1. a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses
Familiarity information: PARTICIPLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
participial; participle
Hypernyms ("participle" is a kind of...):
verb (the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "participle"):
present participle (a participle expressing present action; in English is formed by adding -ing)
past participle; perfect participle (a participle that expresses completed action)
Derivation:
participial (of or relating to or consisting of participles)
Context examples
The first project was, to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because, in reality, all things imaginable are but norms.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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"The way the arrow hits the target is more important than the way it is shot; the way you listen is more important than the way you talk." (Bhutanese proverb)
"Don't ask the singer to sing until he wishes to sing by himself." (Arabic proverb)
"Better safe than sorry." (Croatian proverb)