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gerund
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gerund ( or ) is a term for a verb form that functions as a noun. In English, the term has been applied to -ing forms in certain uses. Traditional grammar made a distinction within -ing forms between present participles and gerunds , a distinction that ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context grammar English) A verbal form that functions as a verbal noun. (In English, a gerund has the same spelling as a present participle, but functions differently.) 2 (context grammar English) In some languages such as Italian or Russian, a verbal ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, from Late Latin gerundium, from Old Latin gerundum "to be carried out," gerundive of gerere "to bear, carry" (see gest ). In Latin, a verbal noun used for all cases of the infinitive but the nominative; applied in English to verbal nouns in -ing .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gerund \Ger"und\, n. [L. gerundium, fr. gerere to bear, carry, perform. See Gest a deed, Jest .] (Lat. Gram.) A kind of verbal noun, having only the four oblique cases of the singular number, and governing cases like a participle. (AS. Gram.) A verbal noun ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a noun formed from a verb (such as the `-ing' form of an English verb when used as a noun)
Usage examples of gerund.
As always when Gerund met her here, he was conscious of how Gyro, as she came down those steps, had to force her mind out from the cloister of Barbe Barber back into the external world.
By the time she reached Gerund, her eyes held that familiar expression of detached amusement with which she faced both life and her husband.
Gyro said, kissing Gerund on his mouth and putting her arms round him.
Galingua in which Gerund, Cyro, and most civilized people of the day thought and conversed.
Even so, I recognized him as Gerund Gyres from the photographs the police had circulated.
I must make is that you, Gerund Gyres, as I must call you, have committed murder: on your own admission, you killed my chief warder.
I hoped he might go to bring help, but if Gerund thought of that he gave no sign.
It was a building in the literal sense of the gerund, for it was always building itself out of impossibility.
Vanya repeated inwardly, outwardly speaking of nouns, gerund phrases, and verbs.
In Quenya as in English, gerunds and abstract nouns cannot always be clearly distinguished.
Thick with nouns, clotted with gerunds, Hurdhu was palatable alike to human brains and the pale harneys of ancipitals.
It is a melancholy fact that, after a thousand years of missionary effort, the vast majority of civilized men do not know that gerunds are found only in the singular number.
Future Periphrastic Conjugation and that ticklish difference between the Gerund and the Gerundive, which is vital.
In Quenya as in English, gerunds and abstract nouns cannot always be clearly distinguished.
It is a melancholy fact that, after a thousand years of missionary effort, the vast majority of civilized men do not know that gerunds are found only in the singular number.