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1. A short piece of a log, especially one used for fuel. 2. A split-out piece of a bolt of wood. blind Joinery with mating surfaces not protruding through the face or end grain of the pieces being joined. An example is a "blind" mortise and tenon joint. bolster. Also called a pillow or cross head. 1. A shoulder. 2.
Seesaw in 1792 painting by Francisco de Goya A set of conjoined playground seesaws. A seesaw (also known as a teeter-totter) is a long, narrow board supported by a single pivot point, most commonly located at the midpoint between both ends; as one end goes up, the other goes down.
group of friends or colleagues ("I saw him and his crew at the bar") rowing as a sport crib (n.) nativity scene, crèche (q.v.) * a manger or rack, or stall for cattle a plagiarism, as of a student ("crib sheet") cribbage: small enclosed bedstead for a child; hence crib death (UK: cot) (informal) one's house or apartment a bin for storing maize
Verbs ending in a consonant plus o also typically add -es: veto → vetoes. Verbs ending in a consonant plus y add -es after changing the y to an i: cry → cries. In terms of pronunciation, the ending is pronounced as / ɪ z / after sibilants (as in lurches), as / s / after voiceless consonants other than sibilants (as in makes), and as / z ...
In syntax, verb-initial (V1) word order is a word order in which the verb appears before the subject and the object. In the more narrow sense, this term is used specifically to describe the word order of V1 languages (a V1 language being a language where the word order is obligatorily or predominantly verb-initial).
The emphasis can be on the action (verb) itself, as seen in sentences 1, 6 and 7, or it can be on parts other than the action (verb), as seen in sentences 2, 3, 4 and 5. If the emphasis is not on the verb, and the verb has a co-verb (in the above example 'meg'), then the co-verb is separated from the verb, and always follows the verb.
English irregular verbs are now a closed group, which means that newly formed verbs are always regular and do not adopt any of the irregular patterns. This list only contains verb forms which are listed in the major dictionaries as being standard usage in modern English. There are also many thousands of archaic, non-standard and dialect variants.
In another sentence, the initial verb functions as a topic: dēcessit Corellius Rūfus does not mean merely "Corellius Rufus has died" but rather "The person who has died is Corellius Rufus." [2] In other examples, the initial verb is emphatic: vīdī forum "with my own eyes, I saw the forum". [3] The placement of adjectives also affects the ...