adverb of degree

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• adverb — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ interrogative, sentence ADVERB + VERB ▪ modify sth, qualify sth ▪ Adverbs qualify verbs. PHRASES …   Collocations dictionary

• adverb — [ad′vʉrb΄] n. [ME adverbe < L adverbium < ad , to + verbum, a word] any of a class of words used generally to modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a clause, by expressing time, place, manner, degree, cause, etc.:… …   English World dictionary

• degree — n. academic title 1) to award a degree to; to confer a degree on 2) to do (BE), earn, receive, take a degree 3) an academic; advanced, graduate, postgraduate (esp. BE); college degree 4) an earned; honorary degree 5) a bachelor s; doctoral,… …   Combinatory dictionary

• Degree of comparison — Grammatical categories Animacy Aspect Case Clusivity Definiteness Degree of comparison Evidentiality …   Wikipedia

• degree — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French degré, from Vulgar Latin *degradus, from Latin de + gradus Date: 13th century 1. a step or stage in a process, course, or order of classification < advanced by degrees > 2 …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• adverb — /ˈædvɜb / (say adverb) noun 1. one of the major parts of speech, comprising words used to modify or limit a verb, a verbal noun (also, in Latin, English, and some other languages, an adjective or another adverb), or an adverbial phrase or clause …  

• adverb — I. noun Etymology: Middle English adverbe, from Middle French, from Latin adverbium, from ad + verbum word more at word Date: 14th century a word belonging to one of the major form classes in any of numerous languages, typically serving as a… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• adverb — n. a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies another word (esp. an adjective, verb, or other adverb) or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g. gently, quite, then, there). Derivatives …   Useful english dictionary

• adverb — adverbless, adj. /ad verrb/, n. Gram. any member of a class of words that in many languages are distinguished in form, as partly in English by the ending ly, or by functioning as modifiers of verbs or clauses, and in some languages, as Latin and… …   Universalium

• adverb — ad•verb [[t]ˈæd vɜrb[/t]] n. gram. a member of a class of words functioning as modifiers of verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, or clauses, as quickly, well, here, now, and very, typically expressing some relation of place, time, manner, degree,… …   From formal English to slang

• to that degree — adverb to the degree or extent that insofar as it can be ascertained, the horse lung is comparable to that of man so far as it is reasonably practical he should practice restraint • Syn: ↑insofar, ↑in so far, ↑so far, ↑to that extent …   Useful english dictionary