(a.) Having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a participle; formed from a participle; as, a participial noun.
(n.) A participial word.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicate that LH-RF released in the afternoon of proestrus may participiate to stimulate the preovulatory discharge of LH in the rat.
(2) The acquisition of grammatical relations from four languages is compared: (1) the definite accusative suffix and pragmatically motivated word order of Turkish; (2) Kaluli verb agreement, case and focus marking postpositions, and pragmatically motivated word order; (3) Hungarian definite and indefinite verb conjunction; and (4) Italian participial agreement and anaphoric, accusative case pronouns.
(3) It would be both possible and desirable to organize recording a nd analysis on a regional basis in collaboration with hospitals wishing to participiate.
Participle
Definition:
(n.) A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles.
(a.) Anything that partakes of the nature of different things.
Example Sentences:
(1) There's only 10 of each, so those who covet them need to move quickly ( madebynode.com )… Greenspeak: Daylighting {dey-lie-t'ing} present participle Trend in architecture (possibly because we're not that keen on eco bulbs) to illuminate with natural daylight, making particular use of skylights.
(2) A mong the many challenges of writing is dealing with rules of correct usage: whether to worry about split infinitives, fused participles, and the meanings of words such as "fortuitous", "decimate" and "comprise".
(3) "[Such] families do not feel properly listened to or understood," Participle's principal partner Hilary Cottam has written.
(4) Where the ridges of these domains intersect, numerous 85-A participles apparently pile up against tight junctional remnants, creating arrays recognizable as gap junctions.
(5) For Creative Use of the Past Participle, take a bow Alan "He needed to take that on early, and that's what he done" Shearer, and for Significant Efforts in Avoiding Adverbs, once more, we salute the Redknapp family.
(6) For one project, Participle spent more than two years with Ella and her family.
(7) Many participles have turned into prepositions, such as "according", "allowing", "concerning", "considering", "excepting", "following", "given", "granted", "owing", "regarding" and "respecting", and they don't need subjects at all.
(8) Featherstone et al's work echoes that of Participle , an organisation that redesigns public services in collaboration with service users and staff.
(9) There were times when I tumbled into the crevice between the two languages, lost all sight of a natural English sentence, felt myself turning into the constituent molecules of a linguistic object – a pattern of auxiliaries, participles, pronouns.