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...s)|stress]] (''rebel'', out of [[context]], could be the [[verb]] or the [[noun]]), and the [[Japanese language|Japanese]] [[mora (linguistics)|mora]]-base

...shuushin suru'' 'retire [to bed]' uses the Chinese reading ''SHIN'' in the noun ''shuushin'' 'retiring', but in the more common verb 寝る ''neru'' 'to li

The normal way to form a plural noun in '''English''' is to add the [[suffix]] -'''s''', which changes into -''' ...are not included if their plural endings are the same as that of the root noun: for example the plural of '''snôwmán''' is '''snôwmén'''.

...e initial auxiliary [[verb]] of the main [[clause]] ahead of the subject [[noun phrase]].

...rate variants. For example, in English, sentences often follow the "N-VP" (noun - verb phrase) pattern, but some knowledge of the English language is requi

''noun'' '''rêlay cf. ''verb'' '''próphesŷ''': ''noun'' '''próphecỳ

'''tâkeover''' ''noun'' '''thánkyoû''' ''noun and adjective'': '''a thánkyou nôte'''; compare: '''wê thánk yoû for t

...(abridged): "Think of C. Caesar in that appalling Gallic War writing about noun declensions as weapons flew past." ''Contra'': O.A.W. Dilke, "The Literary

''Ulaid'' is a plural noun, indicating an [[ethnonym]] rather than a geographic term. The Ulaid are pr

...Cole's slightly Anglicized usage in this paper adopting Shi'ite both as a noun and an adjective for simplicity's sake. Note that Nakash also modifies his

'''dêfect''' ''imperfection (noun) '''détail''' ''BrE noun

A '''mine''' (noun) is a place where natural resources are extracted from the ground. To mine

...kontrollér'' is the imperative form of "to control", ''kontroller'' is the noun "controls". The simple past of the (disused) verb ''å fare'', "to travel", ...ed, syllable. Examples include ''café'' ("café") and ''resumé'' ("resumé", noun). There are two pairs of [[homograph]]s that are differentiated only by the

...possessives, interrogatives, and demonstratives. Dutch no longer indicates noun cases, though a good number of petrified expressions still appear in dative ...adjectives now take the ending ''-e'' except for those modifying a neuter noun not preceded by a definite article or by another definite premodifier (demo

...Scholten and Vainikka have argued that only lexical categories (e.g. the [[noun phrase]]) are drawn from the L1, and that functional categories (e.g. the [

...t many classes of nouns have a gender that is mechanically associated with noun-forming suffixes, e.g. ''das Mädchen'' 'the girl' is neuter because all no Common noun suffixes with fixed gender:

'''lîcence''' BrE noun only = '''lîcense''' '''lîve''' ''adjective'', cf. '''lîfe''' ''noun

'''abûse''' noun, -ss; verb, -z '''áccess''' ''noun'' *áxéss, cf. '''áxis''' centre ([[minimal pair]]), '''áxes''' ''axe''

* {{search link|"thieve"|thieve|ns0|ns14|ns100}} (thief [noun], thieve [verb])

...owup||ns0|ns14|ns100}} (follow up [verb], follow-up [adjective], followup [noun])

...tive]] or [[Ergative-absolutive language|ergative]]. In a language with [[noun case|case]]s, the classification depends on whether the subject of an intra

'''mâde-up''' adjective before noun '''mándâte''' ''noun''; mandâte, ''verb''

...] (漢字 ''[[kanji]]'') are used for the most meaningful words such as most [[noun]]s and [[verb]]s; these take some time to learn. Two further ''[[kana]]'' s

...d the second two just adjectives, and they generally behave like any other noun or adjective behaves. ...rphemes even in the absence of any allomorphy. For example, if the plural noun ''dogs'' is analyzed as a root ''dog'' followed by a plural morpheme ''-s''

''BrE verb'' '''práctíse''' = ''noun, AmE verb'' '''práctíce either syllable stressed ''noun = verb'' '''fînánce

'''bít''', past tense of '''bîte''', as well as a noun meaning ''piece'' '''breâkdown''' ''noun'' cf. '''breâk dòwn''' ''verb''

'''càr-lôad''' ''noun'' '''clámpdown''' ''noun'' one word

'''wrêath''' ''noun'' unvoiced '''th''' as in '''bréath''', different vowel sound '''wróngdoing''' ''noun'' one word, *róngdûing

The word ''secret'' in the title is first understood by the reader to be a noun rather than an adjective—at one point the cool, distant Christopher tries

'''énvelôpe''' ''noun'' - some say ón- '''éxcërpt''' ''noun'', '''excërpt''' ''verb

cf. verbs in -'''the''': ''noun'' '''th''' unvoiced, ''verb'' '''th''' voiced: '''mòuth

'''ópt-òut''' ''noun'' hyphenated

'''sáy-sô''' ''noun'' one word '''sërve''' cf. '''sürvèy''' ''noun'', *sërvây; '''survèy''' ''verb

'''ea''' is used for both sounds: '''bréath''' ''noun'', '''brêathe''' ''verb'', '''lêap''' ''present'', '''léapt''' ''past'', ...hymes with these, as does the metal '''léad''', while '''lêad''' is also a noun meaning "opening paragraph", and this usage has the alternative spelling ''

...es such as ''don't lose your bottle'' and ''don't bottle out''. Used as a noun, it may mean a person's courage or nerve, as in ''Have you the bottle to do

...''pédal''' ''bicycle'' = '''péddle''' ''sell'', '''líttle''' (adjective or noun), '''befúddle''' (verb), '''óbstacle, bàrnacle''', which many speakers p ..., érrant, mílitant, élephant, élegant, árrogant, ascéndant, depéndant''' ''noun'' (cf. '''depéndent''' ''adjective''), '''árrant, érrant''', and '''cú

...práctíse''' (which is spelt '''práctice''' in British English when it is a noun, with the same pronunciation).

...e, regréssíve, inclûsíve''' and nouns: '''môtíve, explêtíve, dîgestíve''' (noun or adjective) while verbs have a stressed -'''îve''': '''contrîve, arrîv

...'''). The sound is always yû- initially: '''ûse''' (verb, voiced '''s'''; noun, unvoiced '''s'''), '''ûsual, Ûrals, ûríne'''.

...Romance languages. It is a moderately [[Inflection|inflected]] language. [[Noun]]s and most pronouns are inflected for [[grammatical number|number]] (singu ...in or Greek roots. There are often pairs of words, one form being popular (noun) and the other one savant (adjective), both originating from Latin. Example

'''neŵs''' -z, singular noun

...ugh the context and structural relations. This is for example that every [[noun]] can be used as a [[subject]], [[object]] or [[indirect object]], but with ...re structural elements which are necessary to built up a sentence like the noun phrase and the verb phrase but looking at a deeper level the structural ele

Modifiers normally come before the [[noun]] in Chinese, but follow the noun in vernacular Vietnamese. Chinese texts published in Vietnam often included

...min Franklin, in 1747, as a verb, and subsequently by him as adjective and noun: ...al senses ‘to load’ and ‘a load’): from Old French charger (verb), charge (noun), from late Latin carricare, carcare ‘to load,’ from Latin carrus ‘wh

...uctural storage denotes the stacking of predicted elements to come. When a noun is perceived, a verb is expected in order to form a complete clause. In a m

...the notion of a prototype is applied to lexical categories other than the noun. Verbs, for example, seem to defy a clear prototype: [to run] is hard to sp

|charge (noun, law) |dab (noun), dab hand

...looking at a sentence such as "Out damn spot!" and noting that "spot" is a noun and the sentence is an imperative). [[User:Michael Scott Cuthbert|Michael S

...itical regime, is generally known as [[capitalism]]. It is also used as a noun to refer to an institution that facilitates such transactions, and as a ver

...and as a noun. As a verb it means revealing an action or activity. As a noun it is used as a label for the device that allows this action to come about.

...t constitute a default declension collectively. There is in fact no single noun that declines exactly as above, even optionally. Adjectives usually follow different noun declensions for different genders. Comparatives and superlatives usually ad

*Words that describe their own meaning ('word', 'noun', 'letters')

; [[Consolidation (geology)|Consolidation]] : As a noun, the state of the soil with regards to prior loading conditions; soils can

...nch-English dictionary was published by Randle Cotgrave (c.1570–1652). The noun ''crosse'' is defined as "the crooked staff wherewith boys play at cricket"

...that the Seventy were also called apostles. The Greek text doesn't use the noun form apostolos but uses the verb form apostello which means to send away an

The noun suffix -'''our''' becomes -'''or'''- before -'''ous''': '''hûmorous, glám

...r [[electronics|electronic]] communication systems. The term "email" (as a noun or verb) applies both to the [[Internet]] [[email system]] based on the [[S

...contexts, the country is referred to as ''Nederland'', which is a singular noun rather than a plural.

...] (漢字 ''[[kanji]]'') are used for the most meaningful words such as most [[noun]]s and [[verb]]s; these take some time to learn. Two further scripts, ''[[h

...its most extravagant in the field of [[English noun#Types of nouns|proper noun]]s—for example, simply adding an 'h' to 'Maria' to make it rhyme wit

Public can also be used as a noun to refer to an undifferentiated group of people, often sharing some interes

...[Wilfred Cantwell Smith]], to question the precision and usefulness of the noun (though not of the adjective "religious").

* Noun, Rosenfield Louise. ''Iowa Women in the WPA.'' Iowa State U. Press, 1999.

...nguistic communication. One example is that all languages appear to have [[noun]]s and [[verb]]s, even though a language without verbs would be communicati

...iocrity; dominated by commercial and industrial interests; capitalistic;'' noun: ''a burgher; a middle-class person; a person with social behavior and poli |'''bourgeoise'''—noun: a woman of the middle class''

...ke the names of arts and sciences in general, is used as a singular [[mass noun]] in English today. The common English-language abbreviations perpetuate th

* [[Noun class]]

...raditional Latin plural because its original sense, ''poison'' is a [[mass noun]] like the English word ''furniture'', and, as pointed out above, English u

...ísthmus, bôth, lôth''' or '''lôath, bréath, wrêath, déath, mòuth''' ''noun ...ap, séven, séptic, sêrial''' ''drama'', '''sŏurce, spécial, ûse''' ''noun'', '''ûsage, āsk, flāsk, tāsk, bāsk, désk, whísk, dúsk

...]], Macedonian is the only [[Slavic languages|Slavic language]] not to use noun cases (except for the [[vocative]]) and to have a definite article.

A collective noun that embraces all manner of cricket-related collectibles.<ref name="BWC694" As a noun, the pitch is the central playing area. As a verb, to pitch means to bowl t

: ''dúvida'' {{IPA|/ˈduvidɐ/}} "doubt" (noun) vs. ''duvida'' {{IPA|/duˈvidɐ/}} "he doubts"

...Also, these revolutionaries called ''themselves'' terrorists, giving this noun the particular moral quality exemplified in that 1905 incident. By contrast

...Also, these revolutionaries called ''themselves'' terrorists, giving this noun the particular moral quality exemplified in that 1905 incident. By contrast

.... The Oxford English dictionary's first definition of the word colic (as a noun) is: "A name given to severe paroxysmal griping pains in the belly, due to

.... The Oxford English dictionary's first definition of the word colic (as a noun) is: "A name given to severe paroxysmal griping pains in the belly, due to

...erring to the religion, or a noun for a follower of Bahá'u'lláh, but not a noun for the religion itself.

..., such as in Plato's ''[[Apology (Plato)|Apology]]'' (26c). As an abstract noun, there was also ''{{polytonic|ἀθεότης}}'' (''atheotēs''), "atheism

...entioned e.g. in the Greek [[Septuagint]], where it is used as an abstract noun for Jewish religious behavior and customs in the second century BCE.

From the noun Islam, in English, is coined the English adjective Islamic. ''Islamicist''

...riginal human lexicon. Semantic primes include the verb ‘live’ but not the noun ‘life’.