People wanted a verb, they made a verb, and everyone agreed that it was a verb.
Today, people who just love to sweepstake - a verb you never knew, but we'll explain it.
As a verb, "to mongo" is to look for and rescue such wealth.
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Of the Facebook Page in Belgium with 3, 000 members supporting a plan to make "I Bundanoon" a verb.
Skype is the dominant player in Internet audio and video communications--people use "Skype" as a verb--and now Microsoft owns it.
To these women, we wondered, is power an adjective or a verb?
Accord is both a subject and a verb: Old faithful is competent.
One brand in particular has carried out this entrepreneurial focus so well that today it is both a noun and a verb .
These days those of us who are still in the business are fighting the same losing battle against using impact as a verb.
He says that with the previous REST-based API there were things like naming confusion, thanks to "digg" being both a verb and a noun.
Dots over a single letter can change the tense or person of a verb, notes Keith Small, an American participant in the SOAS event.
When I had my first job in journalism many, many years ago, I was told that I could never use the word contact as a verb.
New Horizons for Learning's open learning community on the Internet is called the Building - more a verb than a noun, as it continues to grow daily.
Short for graphics interchange format, Gif has been around since the 80s but was this year's US champion because it gained traction as a verb, not just a noun.
Like many technology entrepreneurs, Jay Samit says he knew ooVoo LLC, a video-chat startup, was poised for growth last year when he heard a group of teenagers use it as a verb.
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With Google now as much a verb as a company name, search engine optimization (or SEO)--the process of increasing a site's odds of ranking high in the search stacks--is a key consideration for any e-commerce player.
You know you have reached a certain level of immortality when your name becomes a verb, and I can think of no better example than the American actor Humphrey Bogart, perhaps best known for his role in that all-time classic Casablanca.
"Catfish" is no longer simply a river dweller, but rather a verb defined as "to pretend to be someone you're not online by posting false information, such as someone else's pictures, on social media sites usually with the intention of getting someone to fall in love with you, " according to the MTV show of the same name.
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What with being the first to market with an innovative product, and having that device become a generic verb a la Xerox, we would have thought the company's future looked bright.
Calling it the "Horse" might not have been optimal, but giving it an animal name that doubles as a violent verb was a good move (the Ram is also Dodge's logo).
And how, for example, do you treat a German compound verb, or a Hungarian word formation which can incorporate a whole sentence?
Get a stronger verb and you won't need an adverb, he would tell me.
Use a singular verb form after nobody, someone, everybody, neither, everyone, each and either.
If this was not enough, they have even invented a new verb: Olympians no longer win, they medal.
Only thus can we probe, to borrow a key verb from the aficionados, the ridiculous for the sublime: those terrors, or unlikely consolations, that lurk within.
After all, the first verb Charlie conjugated in his life, when he was just three and a half was the verb to Google!
The story of the company was made the subject of a 2010 Hollywood film, The Social Network, and the firm has made the verb "to friend" a part of everyday language.
Though the column name was a sweet coincidence -- a play on the Spanish verb for pain, dolor -- once Ms. Prida took it over in the spring of 1998, it took fabulous form.
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