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Cosa (chi) è very - definizione
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
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very
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Very is used to give emphasis to an adjective or adverb.
The problem and the answer are very simple...
It is very, very strong evidence indeed...
I'm very sorry...
They are getting the hang of it very quickly...
Thank you very much...
The men were very much like my father.
ADV: ADV adj/adv [emphasis]
2.
Not very is used with an adjective or adverb to say that something is not at all true, or that it is true only to a small degree.
She's not very impressed with them...
It's obviously not used very much...
'How well do you know her?'-'Not very.'
PHRASE: usu PHR adj/adv
3.
You use very to give emphasis to a superlative adjective or adverb. For example, if you say that something is the very best, you are emphasizing that it is the best.
They will be helped by the very latest in navigation aids...
At the very least, the Government must offer some protection to mothers who fear domestic violence.
ADV: ADV superl [emphasis]
4.
You use very with certain nouns in order to specify an extreme position or extreme point in time.
At the very back of the yard, several feet from Lenny, was a wooden shack...
I turned to the very end of the book, to read the final words...
He was wrong from the very beginning...
We still do not have enough women at the very top.
ADJ: ADJ n [emphasis]
5.
You use very with nouns to emphasize that something is exactly the right one or exactly the same one.
Everybody says he is the very man for the case...
She died in this very house...
ADJ: ADJ n [emphasis]
6.
You use very with nouns to emphasize the importance or seriousness of what you are saying.
At one stage his very life was in danger...
The very basis of Indian politics has been transformed...
History is taking place before your very eyes.
ADJ: ADJ n [emphasis]
7.
The expression very much so is an emphatic way of answering 'yes' to something or saying that it is true or correct.
'Are you enjoying your holiday?'-'Very much so.'
PHRASE: PHR as reply, cl PHR [emphasis]
8.
Very well is used to say that you agree to do something or you accept someone's answer, even though you might not be completely satisfied with it.
'We need proof, sir.' Another pause. Then, 'Very well.'...
Very well, please yourself.
= all right
CONVENTION [formulae]
9.
If you say that you cannot very well do something, you mean that it would not be right or possible to do it.
He couldn't very well go to her office and force her to write a check...
I said yes. I can't very well say no.
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR inf
very
I. a.
1.
True, real, actual.
2.
Same, self-same.
II. ad.
Highly, exceedingly, excessively, extremely, remarkably, surpassingly, to a high degree.
very
¦ adverb in a high degree.
?[with superlative or own] without qualification: the very best quality.
¦ adjective
1. actual; precise: his very words.
archaic real; genuine.
2. emphasizing an extreme point in time or space.
3. with no addition; mere.
Phrases
not very
1. in a low degree.
2. far from being.
very good (or well) an expression of consent.
Origin
ME: from OFr. verai, based on L. verus 'true'.
Wikipedia
Very
Esempi dal corpus di testo per very
1. It is very, very, very, very, very clearly extreme.
2. They look very, very juicy and very, very tempting.
3. "Sometimes it can make people very, very jittery, very hypersensitive and very fearful," he said.
4. If we play very, very, very, very good and don’t win is not the point.
5. He seemed very bright, very breezy, very confident.