Sentences with phrase «used as a verb»

A suitably relaxed word, vape can either be used as a verb, meaning «to inhale or exhale the vapor produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device» or as a noun defining it as an «electronic cigarette or similar device; an act of inhaling and exhaling the vapor produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device.»

Her argument against this position, as best I can discern and summarize it, is that each new divine occasion would in turn be irresistibly objectified or «superjected» (she uses this as a verb) back into the world, which would «bind the present irrevocably to the past, to sacrifice spontaneity and autonomy at the altar of necessity» (p. 164).

The word «effective» derives its meaning from the word effect when it is used as a verb.

In fact, so common has the terminology become in some Christian thinking that in a recent academic book it is even used as a verb: «It is good for us Christians (note the pronoun) to have these other missionary religions dispute the Gospel....

Dolloped (I love that you use this as a verb in your post) the sour cream in a swirl below each fritter as I plated, many oohs and aahhhs, much smacking of lips, next time will try it with pomegranate arils, thank you!!

For the record, Woods lives in Florida, the same state Fisher was still in at the time of his miracle grow (yes, I'm using this as a verb and not endorsing any products).

Some people I've counseled even use it as a verb.

Often used as a verb «I PR'd my squat today!»

Light says, «That was the first time he heard summer used as a verb.»

It is often used as verb in the novel.

The words Kindle, Echo, and Fire should not be used as verbs — do not say «Kindle your imagination,» «Fire it up,» or make similar statements.

Used as a verb, it means to believe, or put confidence or trust in, or have faith in.

You use them as verbs, adjectives, adverbs, perjoratives, and sometimes as punctuation.

The word «intimate» used as a verb means «to state or make known».

If that is too problematic then its use as a verb, simply describing activity, is equally justified.

Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Although the term has been around for quite a while, its transition to being used as a verb («to gif») was why the word ended up on this year's shortlist.

In fact, here's a handy rule of thumb I use when considering whether a particular technology is truly catching on: if it's not being used as a verb, it's not there yet.

The comparable term in Aramaic, which was the lingua franca for most Jews during the Second Temple period, the term also meant nest, rookery, hive, or brood, when used as a noun, or to get, obtain, or possess, when used as a verb.

Used as a verb to describe the act of sending media from a mobile device over to a television or larger screen.

Effect can also be used as a verb meaning to implement.

Blog can also be used as a verb, as in the following sentence: «Today I will blog about home prices in my area, because it's a popular topic for my intended audience.»

Not exact matches

After all, «Google» has entered the dictionary as a transitive verb meaning to use that search engine to look for information on the Web.

And they use the author's name as a verb that can refer either to purging or meticulous folding: «Waiting for kettle to boil... So I Kondoed my recipe books,» Elaine Colliar, a family - finance columnist for Scotland's Sunday Mail, proclaimed in a recent Facebook post,» reported the WSJ recently.

She recommends using action verbs such as «spearhead,» «direct» and «administer» to describe your achievements and responsibilities, and employing industry jargon, especially for valuable skills.

If this were the case, the filing suggests, the fact most people use «google» as verb should be enough to defeat the trademark.

(And yes, even the employees use BPA as a verb, as in, «I'm totally gonna BPA the family at table 11»)

A fun thing to do is to search the presentation for the word «leaned,» which Valeant uses as a transitive verb meaning «fired a bunch of people in.»

So using the assets that his culture did furnish, such as turning the word Google into a verb, Eric searched several Websites that gave detailed instructions.

probably, rather than the usual way we use the verb «be» as in «Jesus IS this.»

And yet, the definition would vary depending on the use of the word as either a noun or a verb.

It occurs only twice in the New Testament — here, and in Ephesians 1:6, where Paul writes that all Christians have been adopted as children of God through Jesus Christ and have been «blessed / graced» (same verb Luke uses with the root xaris).

But he is no zealot, eager to practice child - sacrifice or insensitive to the horror involved; this we learn from the austere, steady, and dignified way he proceeds, as indicated by the simplicity, compactness, and austerity of the verbs used to recount his actions: He arose, saddled (his ass), took (two youths with him and Isaac his son), cleaved (wood for the burnt - offering), rose up and went.

The Kaddish prayer, as we saw, uses Kingdom, but with the verb «establish», not «come».

Further, the difference as characteristic in that ancient Jewish texts normally use a verb such as «to establish» in connection with the kingdom, very rarely «to come».

Two other ancient prayers, the eleventh of the Eighteen Benedictions, from the period before the destruction of the Temple in AD 70, and the Alenu prayer, probably from the third century AD, both use a form of the verb mlk, «to reign, be king», with God as the subject.

The teaching of Jesus, on the other hand, not only regularly uses the verb to come in connection with the Kingdom and avoids the other verbs more characteristic of ancient Judaism, it also never speaks of God «appearing» as king as do the Jewish texts.

The major importance of Hartshorne's work in my view» is the way in which his dipolar panentheism indicates the possibility of a concept of God which allows believers to speak of him as an individual, personal reality and significantly to use active verbs of him — like love, create, know, respond — without denying anything that properly belongs to his ultimacy and worshipfulness and without falling into self - contradiction.

But, though the passages just quoted give good reasons for thinking he is indeed using the said verb in that manner, the possibility remains he may be using it as a mere copula.

There is two words used in the New Testament to describe eating, fago and trogo (OK, it's a little more complicated than that, look up esthio as far as the verb action of «eating» in the «fago» sense goes).

Using an orderly arrangement, it has all the crucial paradigms for nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, and participles, as well as helpful lists of prepositions, irregular verbs, and other details frequently needed for Greek translation.

Detailed comparative analysis of individual sections or pericopae in the synoptic gospels has confirmed the hypothesis that during the lengthy period before the writing of our earliest gospel individual sayings and incidents in Jesus» ministry were — note the verb — used: as they were worked over and adapted, their context and wording may have been altered beyond recall.

Hebrew uses «creating» (bara) as a verb, but it seldom uses beriah, a feminine noun, to refer to the whole creation.

we understand the subject of the verb «to receive» to be God and the saying as an attempt to use the steward as an example of prudence: he used the money to help others and for this reason God will accept him, almsgiving being a strong intercessor.

In both Hebrew and Greek the verb «to know» is used not merely for a cerebral knowledge; knowing about something, but for a coming to an immediate sense of that something as affecting oneself.

Relating this to a doctrine of God, he writes, «If God contains my act as mine, but not as his, then my act is not his act in any personal sense, and the verb «contain» is being used in an impersonal sense.»

It is perhaps interesting to note that the term «being» is actually a form of the verb, even though most philosophers use it as a substantive noun.

The word «Hosanna» is the Hebrew verb translated in the Psalm, «Save us, we beseech thee»; but it is used here as a noun like «glory» or «praise.»

The verb that is usually used with this understanding of the church is «go,» as in «we go to church.»

That such a tradition as Käsemann describes existed in the early Church is clear enough, and that these sayings are at home in it is shown both by their form, the two - part sentence with the same verb in each referring to present action and eschatological judgement respectively, and by the fact that a Christian prophet makes use of one of them in Rev. 3.5 b («I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels»).