{
  "id": "verb.grammatical",
  "term": "verb",
  "sense": "grammatical",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "verb",
  "domain": "language",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a term that names a change or a state that unfolds in time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "change.process",
      "state.condition",
      "process.general",
      "occurs.event",
      "time.dimension",
      "terms.language",
      "name.identifier"
    ],
    "interaction": "when a linguistic term refers to an event or persistent condition unfolding in time, it becomes a grammatical category",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporal reference",
      "eventive or durative meaning",
      "linguistic categorization of action or state"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station adjusts its orbit every few weeks to counteract atmospheric drag and maintain altitude.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2023, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates seven times to influence inflation trends.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "A neuron fires an action potential when voltage-gated ion channels open in sequence along its axon.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "change.process",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "verb",
    "verbs"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added 'name.identifier' to components as it is essential for the act of naming implied in the definition. All other components remain valid and necessary. Definition unchanged as it accurately reflect"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-verb.grammatical"
}