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Connecting verb in grammar
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copula
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Copula is a monotypic genus of box jellyfish in the family Tripedaliidae of the phylum Cnidaria . The only species in the genus is Copula sivickisi , a very small gelatinous, bell-shaped organism with four tentacles that is active only at night. It is unusual ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Copula \Cop"u*la\, n. [L., bond, band. See Couple .] (Logic & Gram.) The word which unites the subject and predicate. (Mus.) The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; -- called also coupler .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence [syn: copulative , linking verb ] [also: copulae (pl)]
Usage examples of copula.
Permanent Copula loping toward him, its twin heads and arms bobbing, one half of the creature serene, the other half straining to realize every pleasure Alien City had to offer.
Creatures like the Permanent Copula came, catching rides on freighters, seeking their fortune.
We hereby nominate our faithful charger Copula Felix hereditary Grand Vizier and announce that we have this day repudiated our former spouse and have bestowed our royal hand upon the princess Selene, the splendour of night.
Then, boom, into a null-g suite, with a proleptic copula imbedded in their gliomas.
The proposition is composed of two terms and the copula, one term constituting the subject of the proposition and the other the predicate.
In the Sumnia Theologica Thomas Aquinas most usually uses the term carnal intercourse, and then there's coition, or vera copula, but it is hard for me to think of-us-in those terms.
English very often employs the active participle to express the meaning of a continuative tense, combining the participle with a copula like "is" or "was", e.
It is generally assumed that these copulas would be used as in English, for instance like this: I parma ná carnë.
The final version of Tolkien's Quenya translation of the Hail Mary, published in January 2002, leaves out several copulas: Aistana elyë, ar aistana i yávë mónalyo = "blessed [art] thou, and blessed [is] the fruit of thy womb".
Thus, the future tense form of the copulas derived from the stem NÂ "to be" (cf.
Wister (Heller) had polygamously married Maizie Spread, Toots Switch and Dolores Pubiano de Copula.