You've got an attention span so impressive that people actually want to study you. But you don't have time for that; you're too busy coding, or tinkering, or thinking, or obsessively trying make the world a better place through invention with that savant-like brain of yours.
User: A symbol is _____. an intentional departure from the normal order, construction, or meaning of words something that is itself and also stands for something else a literal and concrete representation of an experience of the senses or of an object known by the senses.
Verbs Involving Senses feelhearlisten tolook atnoticeobserveoverhearseewatch. Both gerunds and infinitives can be nouns, which means they can do just about anything that a noun can do. Although they name things, like other nouns, they normally name activities rather than people or objects.