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Showing posts with label Nouns As Verbs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nouns As Verbs. Show all posts
verb
verb (v): to describe an action taken in social media as a concise verb
“Google says nothing about the search engine’s purpose, but it’s easy and fun to say, and eminently verbable.”
Instagram’s New Private-Messaging Feature Is Tragically Unverbable [Slate]
"data" as a verb
Another businessman turns a noun into a verb:
"There's no way to data your way to an answer."
Can Todd Park Revolutionize the Health Care Industry? [The Atlantic]
To "Google" or to "google"? To "Tweet" or to "tweet"?
According to Merriam-Webster, while "Google," a trademarked company name, obviously is capitalized, "google," a verb, is not.
Similarly, while "Twitter" is capitalized, its verb variant, "tweet," is not. As editor at large, Peter Sokolowski, explained in an e-mail to me today,
Tweet as both noun and verb, used to mean “update message” or “to send a short message or update,” is increasingly common and we’re watching the evidence. For now the word is largely styled lower-case. As with all words in our dictionaries, evidence of use for both the meaning and the styling of a word is the only criterion we seek.
clever
clever (v): to do something cleverly
"I don't want to live a lie and clever my way to the nomination or election."
Fred Thompson's Gamble [Washington Post]
architect
architect (v): to design and guide a plan or undertaking
"He did architect House gains for Republicans in 2002."
Markos Moulitsas Talks With Charlie Rose [YouTube]
FOIA'd
FOIA'd (v): to request under the Freedom of Information Act
"[T]he ACLU . . . has FOIA'd its way into yet another cache of documents describing the torture of military detainees at Gitmo and in Iraq."
FOIA'd Again! [Slate]
agenda
In “The Path to Florida” (Vanity Fair, October 2004), David Margolick, Evgenia Peretz and Michael Shnayerson quote one Florida state senator asking another to “agenda” a piece of legislation.
I’ve never seen “agenda” as a verb before, and Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary does not list it.
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