Participle

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Participle \Par"ti*ci*ple\, n. [F. participe, L. participium,
     fr. particeps sharing, participant; pars, gen. partis, a part
     + capere to take. See {Participate}.]
     1. (Gram.) A part of speech partaking of the nature of both
        verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective,
        modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from


        which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is
        written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil
        he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare
        participles.
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              By a participle, [I understand] a verb in an
              adjectival aspect.                    --Earle.
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     Note: Present participles, called also imperfect, or
           incomplete, participles, end in -ing. Past participles,
           called also perfect, or complete, participles, for the
           most part end in -ed, -d, -t, -en, or -n. A participle
           when used merely as an attribute of a noun, without
           reference to time, is called an adjective, or a
           participial adjective; as, a written constitution; a
           rolling stone; the exhausted army. The verbal noun in
           -ing has the form of the present participle. See
           {Verbal noun}, under {Verbal}, a.
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     2. Anything that partakes of the nature of different things.
        [Obs.]
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              The participles or confines between plants and
              living creatures.                     --Bacon.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  participle
       n : a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used
           adjectivally and to form compound tenses [syn: {participial}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "participle":
     adjectival, adjective, adverb, adverbial, adversative conjunction,
     attributive, conjunction, conjunctive adverb,
     coordinating conjunction, copulative, copulative conjunction,
     correlative conjunction, disjunctive, disjunctive conjunction,
     exclamatory noun, form class, form word, function class, gerundive,
     interjection, part of speech, particle, past participle,
     perfect participle, preposition, present participle,
     subordinating conjunction, verbal adjective