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
Dan Weiss (born July 22, 1978), better known by his stage name Verbal Kent, is an alternative hip hop artist from Chicago.
Early life
Weiss was born and raised in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood.Moira McCormick“Organic Mind Unit is all a ...
(born 1978), alternative hip hop artist from Chicago
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Verbal Jint
Kim Jin-tae (; born December 19, 1980), better known by his stage name Verbal Jint (), is a South Korean musician, rapper and record producer who is known for his innovations in Korean hip hop rhyme schemes. He established himself as one of Sout ...
(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 ...
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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
Verbosity, or verboseness, is speech or writing that uses more words than necessary. The opposite of verbosity is succinctness.
Some teachers, including the author of ''The Elements of Style'', warn against verbosity. Similarly Mark Twain and ...
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
The Verbal Arts Centre is based in Derry, Northern Ireland, and is a centre for the development of the verbal arts and literacy (i.e. the ability to read, write, communicate and comprehend). It was established in 1992 as an educational charity ...
, 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
Procès-verbal ( French ''procès'', process, Late Latin ''verbalis'', from ''verbum'', word) is a legal term with a number of meanings:
In law
*in Francophone countries, such as France, the term "procès-verbal" is frequently mentioned as "P.V. ...
'', a legal term with a number of meanings
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Verbal abuse (disambiguation)
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Verbal agreement (disambiguation) Verbal agreement may refer to:
* Oral contract
An oral contract is a contract, the terms of which have been agreed by spoken communication. This is in contrast to a written contract, where the contract is a written document. There may be written, ...
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