AGENTIVE | • agentive adj. (Linguistics) Indicating an agent or agency (as -er in lexicographer). • agentive adj. (Linguistics) Pertaining to a grammatical agent that performs the action of the verb. • agentive n. (Linguistics) A word having an agentive construction. |
EGESTIVE | • egestive adj. Of or pertaining to egestion. • EGESTIVE adj. able to be egested. |
ERGATIVE | • ergative adj. (Grammar) With the subject of a transitive construction having grammatical cases or thematic relations… • ergative n. Ellipsis of ergative case (“a grammatical case used to indicate the agent of a transitive verb in ergative-absolutive… • ergative n. An ergative verb or other expression. |
EVENTING | • eventing n. An equestrian event which comprises dressage, cross-country, and showjumping; a similar event using motor cars. • eventing n. (Computing) The ability of one system or part of a program to send notifications to another, by raising events. • eventing n. (Social sciences, rare) The occurrence of an event. |
EVERTING | • everting v. Present participle of evert. • EVERT v. to turn inside out. |
GENITIVE | • genitive adj. (Grammar) Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses… • genitive n. (Grammar, uncountable) An inflection pattern (of any given language) that expresses origin or ownership… • genitive n. (Grammar, countable) A word inflected in the genitive case; a word indicating origin, ownership or possession. |
LEVIGATE | • levigate v. (Transitive) To make smooth or polish. • levigate v. (Transitive) To make into a smooth paste or fine powder. • levigate v. (Transitive) To separate finer grains from coarser ones by suspension in a liquid. |
NEGATIVE | • negative adj. Not positive nor neutral. • negative adj. (Physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles. • negative adj. (Mathematics) Of a number: less than zero. |
STEEVING | • steeving v. Present participle of steeve. • STEEVING n. the angular elevation of a bowsprit from a ship's keel. |
VEGEMITE | • vegemite prop.n. Alternative letter-case form of Vegemite. • Vegemite prop.n. (Australia, New Zealand) An Australian food paste made from brewers′ yeast. • VEGEMITE n. (colloquial) a child. |
VEGETIST | • vegetist n. (Archaic) vegetarian. • VEGETIST n. one that eats only plant products, also VEGAN. |
VEGETIVE | • vegetive adj. (Obsolete) vegetable. • vegetive adj. Of or pertaining to vegetation. • vegetive n. (Obsolete) vegetable. |
VEGGIEST | • VEGGIE adj. (colloq.) vegetarian. |
VENTIGES | • ventiges n. Plural of ventige. • VENTIGE n. (Shakespeare) a fingerhole, as in a flute, also VENTAGE. |
VERLIGTE | • verligte n. (South Africa) A person with a verlig political attitude. • VERLIGTE adj. (South African) liberal, politically enlightened, also VERLIG. • VERLIGTE n. a liberal. |
VESTIGES | • vestiges n. Plural of vestige. • VESTIGE n. a visible sign of something that is no longer in existence. |
VIGNETTE | • vignette n. (Architecture) A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture. • vignette n. (Printing) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a… • vignette n. (By extension) Any small borderless picture in a book, especially an engraving, photograph, or the like… |