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- Note: The word anvil was originally a deverbal compound meaning in effect "the thing on which striking is done." Already in Old English the makeup of the compound would have been less than transparent, as a verb corresponding to the deverbal second element -fealt/-filt (e) does not appear to have existed (or at least is not attested).
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What does the noun anvil mean? There are eight meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun anvil . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
The meaning of ANVIL is a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering).
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"An example of a deverbal noun is . . . baker, a noun derived from a verb by attaching the agentive suffix -er." (Adrian Akmajian, Richard Demers, Ann Farmer, and Robert Harnish, Linguistics: An In..."[T]he irregular inflectional behavior of verbs like to drink, to hit, to shake, or to sleep is a strong argument for the deverbal nature of the nouns drink, hit, shake, and sleep. In sum, the infl..."Instead of speaking of . . . writing . . . as a 'verbal noun,' I will call it a 'deverbal noun,' i.e. a noun derived by a lexical-morphological process from a verb stem. Analogously with participl..."[I]t stands to reason that if a word's class is changed through a derivational process, then its meaning will be affected. Derivational suffixes and processes vary, however, in what new semantic i...
"Deverbal nominalization is special in ways which make it both extraordinarily complex and extraordinarily revealing. Deverbal nominals (henceforth 'd-nominals') such as assignment and continuation...
"The most comprehensive work on English nominalization to date is certainly [Jane] Grimshaw [Argument Structure, 1990] who argues that deverbal nouns do not form a homogeneous class. As (1) illustr...
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3 days ago · A stone or other hard surface used by a bird for breaking the shells of snails. The non-moving surface of a micrometer against which the item to be measured is placed. (meteorology) A horizontal-topped mass of cloud, shaped like a blacksmith's anvil, that forms before a thunderstorm.
Deverbal nouns are nouns that are derived from verbs or verb phrases.
Definition of anvil noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Definitions of 'anvil'. 1. An anvil is a heavy iron block on which hot metals are beaten into shape. [...] 2. The anvil is the middle bone of the three small bones in the ear of mammals. [...] 3. You can refer to a difficult experience that changes someone or leads to something good as a particular type of anvil.
