Verbal may refer to:
People
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Verbal (rapper)
Verbal (born August 21, 1975) is a Japanese rapper, music video director and record producer who debuted in 1998 as a member of the hip hop group M-Flo. He is a third generation Zainichi Korean and a notable representative of Zainichi Korean m ...
(born 1975), Japanese rapper and music producer
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Verbal Kent (born 1978), alternative hip hop artist from Chicago
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Verbal Jint (born 1980), South Korean musician, rapper and record producer
Language
* Something expressed with
speech
Speech is the use of the human voice as a medium for language. Spoken language combines vowel and consonant sounds to form units of meaning like words, which belong to a language's lexicon. There are many different intentional speech acts, suc ...
, rather than writing
* Pertaining to
verb
A verb is a word that generally conveys an action (''bring'', ''read'', ''walk'', ''run'', ''learn''), an occurrence (''happen'', ''become''), or a state of being (''be'', ''exist'', ''stand''). In the usual description of English, the basic f ...
s
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Verbal noun
Historically, grammarians have described a verbal noun or gerundial noun as a verb form that functions as a noun. An example of a verbal noun in English is 'sacking' as in the sentence "The ''sacking'' of the city was an epochal event" (wherein ...
, a noun formed from a corresponding verb
** A
nonfinite verb
Non-finite verbs, are verb forms that do not show tense, person, or number. They include:
# Infinitives (e.g., to go, to see) - They often function as nouns or the base form of a verb
# Gerunds (e.g., going, seeing) - These act as nouns but are ...
such as an
infinitive
Infinitive ( abbreviated ) is a linguistics term for certain verb forms existing in many languages, most often used as non-finite verbs that do not show a tense. As with many linguistic concepts, there is not a single definition applicable to all ...
,
gerund
In linguistics, a gerund ( abbreviated ger) is any of various nonfinite verb forms in various languages; most often, but not exclusively, it is one that functions as a noun. The name is derived from Late Latin ''gerundium,'' meaning "which is ...
, or
participle
In linguistics, a participle (; abbr. ) is a nonfinite verb form that has some of the characteristics and functions of both verbs and adjectives. More narrowly, ''participle'' has been defined as "a word derived from a verb and used as an adject ...
functioning as a noun, adjective, or adverb
** A word or group of words that functions as the head of a
verb phrase
In linguistics, a verb phrase (VP) is a syntax, syntactic unit composed of a verb and its argument (linguistics), arguments except the subject (grammar), subject of an independent clause or coordinate clause. Thus, in the sentence ''A fat man quic ...
* Person characterised by
verbosity or fluency
* Anything pertaining to language or the use of words, as opposed to
nonverbal communication
Nonverbal communication is the transmission of messages or signals through a nonverbal platform such as eye contact (oculesics), body language (kinesics), social distance (proxemics), touch (Haptic communication, haptics), voice (prosody (lingui ...
Other uses
* Roger "Verbal" Kint, a character in the 1995 film ''
The Usual Suspects
''The Usual Suspects'' is a 1995 crime thriller film directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie. It stars Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Chazz Palminteri, Pete Postlethwaite and Kevin S ...
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* ''Verbal'', a magazine published by the
Verbal Arts Centre, Northern Ireland
* ''Verbal'', a track on Amon Tobin's EP ''
Verbal Remixes & Collaborations
''Verbal Remixes & Collaborations'' is an Extended play, EP released by Amon Tobin in 2003. It features tracks from two previously released 12" EPs: ''Verbal (Remixes)'' and ''Collaborations''.
Track listing
#"Untitled" - Kid Koala & Amon Tobin ...
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See also
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Procès-verbal'', a legal term with a number of meanings
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Verbal abuse (disambiguation)
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Verbal agreement (disambiguation)
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