verbalとは

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈvɜː.bəl/, [ˈvɜː.bɫ̩], enPR: vûrʹ-bəl
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈvɝ.bəl/, [ˈvɜ˞.bɫ̩], enPR: vûrʹ-bəl
  • 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)bəl
  • ハイフネーション: ver‧bal

形容詞

verbal (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to words.

   Synonym: wordish

2. Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
3. Consisting of words only.

   Antonyms: non-verbal, substantive

   • Mayhew

     We subjoin an engraving […] which will give the reader a far better notion of the structure than any verbal description could convey to the mind.

     1861, Charles Dickens, 'Great Expectations':

     It was not a verbal remark, but a proceeding in dumb-show

4. Expressly spoken rather than written; oral.

   a verbal contract

   a verbal testimony

   • 1861, Charles Dickens, 'Great Expectations':

     You can't have verbal communication with a man in New South Wales, you know.

5. (grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.

   Synonym: rhematic

6. (grammar) Used to form a verb.
7. Capable of speech.

   Antonym: preverbal

   • 2005, Avril V. Brereton, Bruce J. Tonge, Pre-schoolers with autism (page 55)

     How do these language problems affect the behaviour of verbal children?

8. Word for word.

   Synonyms: literal, verbatim

   a verbal translation

9. (obsolete) Abounding with words; verbose.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

同意語

• (of または relating to speech または words): lectic

反意語

• (expressly spoken または written): implied
• (expressly stated): unsaid

派生語

関連する語

• verbalism
• verbality

名詞

verbal (複数形 verbals)

1. (grammar) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.
2. (Britain, Ireland) A confession given to police.
   • 1982, New South Wales. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates (page 2496)

     They were convicted on the evidence of an agent provocateur named Richard Seary, backed up by police verbals from three police officers who gave evidence of six verbals in which the three accused were supposed to have admitted their guilt.

同意語

• (verb form): non-finite verb

動詞

verbal (三人称単数 現在形 verbals, 現在分詞 verballing, 過去形および過去分詞形 verballed)

1. (transitive, Britain, Australia) To induce into fabricating a confession.
   • 1982, John A. Andrews, Human Rights in Criminal Procedure: A Comparative Study, →ISBN, BRILL, page 128:

     "The problem of 'verballing' is unlikely to disappear, whatever the legal status of the person detained."

   • 2001, Chris Cunneen, Conflict, Politics and Crime: Aboriginal Communities and the Police, →ISBN, Allen & Unwin, page 116:

     "Condren had always claimed that he was assaulted and verballed by police over the murder he had supposedly confessed to committing."

   • 2004, Jeremy Gans & Andrew Palmer, Australian Principles of Evidence, →ISBN, Routledge Cavendish, page 504:

     "Moreover, given the risk of verballing, it is by no means apparent that it is in the interests of justice that the prosecution have the benefit of admissions that are made on occasions when recordings are impracticable."

アナグラム

• Varble, Vrabel