Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Verb \Verb\, n. [F. verbe, L. verbum a word, verb. See Word.]
1. A word; a vocable. [Obs.] --South.
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2. (Gram.) A word which affirms or predicates something of
some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being,
action, or the suffering of action.
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Note: A verb is a word whereby the chief action of the mind
[the assertion or the denial of a proposition] finds
expression. --Earle.
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Active verb, Auxiliary verb, Neuter verb, etc. See
Active, Auxiliary, Neuter, etc.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Auxiliary \Aux*il"ia*ry\, n.; pl. Auxiliaries.
1. A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or
enterprise.
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2. (Mil.) pl. Foreign troops in the service of a nation at
war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or
subsidiary force.
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3. (Gram.) A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and
tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary
verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will,
in English; [^e]tre and avoir, in French; avere and
essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish.
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4. (Math.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of
simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in
equations or trigonometrical formul[ae]. --Math. Dict.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
auxiliary verb
n 1: a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to
help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it
combines with