(grammar) A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses.
(modifying a verb)
(programming) In the Raku programming language, a named parameter that modifies the behavior of a routine.
verb
(rare) To make into or become an adverb.
barvel
bavary
beaver
beaver
noun
(Canada, US) Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
(US, offensive) A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
(chiefly Canada, US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
(countable) A beard or a bearded person.
(countable) A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
(countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
(countable, backgammon) A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
(uncountable, historical) A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
Alternative letter-case form of Beaver (“member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement”).
Alternative spelling of bevor (“part of a helmet”).
Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
Butter.
The fur of the beaver.
verb
(backgammon) After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
(logging, slang) To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
To work hard.
bervie
bevers
bevers
noun
plural of bever
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bever
bevier
bevors
bevors
noun
plural of bevor
biverb
blaver
bovard
bovril
bovril
Proper noun
A brand of beef extract made in the UK.
bovver
bovver
noun
(Britain, slang) Violence, especially that associated with youth gangs.
Pronunciation spelling of bother.
brasov
bravar
bravas
bravas
noun
plural of brava
braved
braved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of brave
braver
braver
adj
comparative form of brave: more brave
noun
One who braves something.
braves
braves
noun
plural of brave
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brave
bravin
bravos
bravos
noun
plural of bravo
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bravo
breves
breves
noun
plural of breve
brevet
brevet
noun
(by extension) An authoritative grant or mark of recognition; a seal of approval.
A military document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily, but without an increase in pay.
A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity, as in France.
An organized, long-distance bicycle ride — not a race, but a test of endurance — which follows a designated but unmarked route passing through check points.
verb
(military) To promote by brevet.
brevis
brevit
brieve
brieve
noun
Alternative form of breve used in Scots law
diverb
diverb
noun
(obsolete) A proverb or set expression.
(obsolete) A saying in which two members of the sentence are contrasted.
obvert
obvert
noun
(logic) The result of obversion.
verb
(Wikimedia jargon) To undo a revert of a bold edit
(transitive) To turn so as to show another side.
(transitive) To turn towards the front.
(transitive, logic) To infer by obversion.
overby
overby
adv
(archaic) A little way over.
reverb
reverb
noun
(audio effects) An electronic effect which simulates echoes or reverberations in the sound signal being processed.
verb
(obsolete) To echo.
(transitive) To apply a reverb (electronic echo effect) to.
verbal
verbal
adj
(grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
(grammar) Used to form a verb.
(obsolete) Abounding with words; verbose.
Capable of speech.
Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
Consisting of words only.
Expressly spoken rather than written; oral.
Of or relating to words.
Word for word.
noun
(countable, UK, Ireland) A spoken confession given to police.
(countable, grammar) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.
(uncountable, UK, Ireland, colloquial) Talk; speech, especially banter or scolding.
verb
(transitive, Britain, Australia) To induce into fabricating a confession.
verbid
verbid
noun
(grammar) A nonfinite verb form, such as, in English, an infinitive, participle, or gerund.
verbum
viborg
viborg
Proper noun
a city in Denmark, pop. 91.405 (as of 2007)
a city in Karelia (now part of Russia, in earlier times part of Finland), pop. 79,224 (as of 2002), usually spelled Vyborg
a town in Turner County, South Dakota, pop. 832 (as of 2000)
vibrio
vibrio
noun
Any of several bacteria, of the genus Vibrio, shaped like a curved rod.
vyborg
vyborg
Proper noun
a city in Leningrad oblast (now part of Russia, in earlier times part of Finland), pop. 79,224 (as of 2002), also spelled Viborg