crucial
- Alcohol n. contains a compounds section with the heading ‘Instrumental’. Examples given include alcohol-fuelled (‘fuelled by alcohol’) and alcohol-laced (‘laced with alcohol’).
- Governed adj., ‘that is or has been governed’, is used both attributively and ‘as the second element in instrumental compounds’. The quotation paragraph includes examples of such compounds, such as throttle-governed (‘controlled by means of a throttle’) and hell-governed (‘ruled by hell’).
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intensifier
An intensifier is a word, phrase, or prefix which gives force or emphasis. Intensifiers are often adverbs (e.g. very, extremely, utterly) or adjectives (e.gplete in ‘He’s a complete fool’).
- MURDEROUSLY adv. is defined as ‘As an intensifier: to a great or overpowering extent; extremely’, with examples such as ‘Cash money was still murderously scarce.’
- FRIGHTSOME adj. is defined as ‘Causing fright; frightening, frightful. Also in weakened use as an intensifier.’ For example, in ‘The eery black an’ frightsome night’, frightsome means ‘frightening’, but in ‘If we could work it we’d get frightsome big bags o’ game’, frightsome is an intensifier meaning ‘very’, ‘extremely’.
interjection
An interjection are a term and therefore features alone from most other words and you may generally speaking is short for an exclamation otherwise command. Instances during the English become sadly, eureka, hush, and you may oops.
- Entries for interjections have the part-of-speech label int. For example, the use of Mamma mia as an interjection, as in ‘Mamma mia! The cost of it!’, is treated at MAMMA MIA int. (and you will letter.). The use of hard cheese as an interjection, as in ‘ “Tough mozzarella cheese!” condoled Mr. Davenant’, is treated at Difficult Cheddar letter. (and you will int.) 2, with the wording ‘also as int’.
- Hahah n. 2 describes the use of the noun to mean ‘an instance of the written interjection “LOL”’.
- WHOA v. 1a describes the sense ‘to call out “whoa” as a general interjection expressing surprise, delight, etc.’
[Unrevised OED records both identify terminology since the ‘used interjectionally’, definition ‘used since an interjection’, but in revised entries interjections are supplied the fresh new region-of-speech identity int.]
interrogative
An interrogative is a word, condition, or sentence used to ask or express a question. For example, the question ‘Who is responsible?’ is an interrogative sentence. In ‘I asked who was responsible’, who was responsible is an interrogative clause. Interrogative words include who, what, when, where, which, and how: for example, in ‘Who is responsible?’, who is an interrogative pronoun.
- Court v. 1d is defined as ‘With interrogative clause as object. To determine, tell.’ For example, in the sentence ‘I leave yourselves to judge which kind of a farmer you are’, the clause which kind of a farmer you are is an interrogative clause, expressing the question ‘Which kind of farmer are you?’
- The phrase to obtain the center in your mind n. P3e(a) is described as ‘In later use chiefly in negative and interrogative contexts.’ An example of the phrase in an interrogative context is the question ‘Did I really have the heart to deny them a grandfather
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intransitive
A verb is intransitive when it does not take a direct object. An intransitive verb may stand alone, or it ple, a prepositional words, adverb, or adjective).
In the OED, transitivity labels are applied to senses of verbs and phrasal verbs. The following are examples with the label intransitive.
- ‘Take a minute to drift off and daydream‘ (at DAYDREAM v. step 1): daydream stands alone without a complement.