Encyclopedia - Noun: Encyclopedia - Noun
In the above sentence, "computer" is an adjective because it is describing "company". Cleanliness is next to Godliness. The World Wide W...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noun: Encyclopedia Ii - Noun - Case Number And Gender
In sentences, noun phrases may function in a variety of different ways, the most obvious being as subjects (performers of action) or obje...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noun: Encyclopedia Ii - Noun - Case, Number, And Gender
In sentences, noun phrases may function in a variety of different ways, the most obvious being as subjects (performers of action) or obje...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender: Encyclopedia - Gender
In a variety of different contexts, gender refers to the masculinity or femininity of words, persons, characteristics, or non-human organ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Collective Noun: Encyclopedia - Collective Noun
Collective nouns (also known as terms of venery, veneral nouns or nouns of assemblage) in English are subject-specific words used to defi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - God And Gender: Encyclopedia - God And Gender
This entry discusses how the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam deal with God and gender. It includes both traditional r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Count Noun: Encyclopedia - Count Noun
In linguistics, a count noun (also countable noun) is a noun which can be modified by a numeral and occur in both singular and plural for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bright Noun: Encyclopedia - Bright Noun
The term bright, used as a noun, is a neologism invented by Paul Geisert in 2003 as a positive-sounding umbrella term to describe various...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abrahamic Religions On God And Gender: Encyclopedia - Abrahamic Religions On God And Gender
This entry discusses how the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam deal with God and gender. It includes both traditional r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vocative Case: Encyclopedia - Vocative Case
The vocative case is the case used for a noun identifying the person (animal, object, etc.) being addressed and/or occasionally the dete...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ablative Case: Encyclopedia - Ablative Case
For the physical process, see ablation. In linguistics, the ablative case is a noun case found in several languages, including Armenian,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Case Study: Encyclopedia - Case Study
A case study is a particular method of qualitative research. Rather than using large samples and following a rigid protocol to examine a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dative Case: Encyclopedia - Dative Case
The dative case is a grammatical case generally used to indicate the noun to whom something is given. The name is derived from the Latin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Accusative Case: Encyclopedia - Accusative Case
The accusative case of a noun is the grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a verb. The same case is used in many languages ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Case Citation: Encyclopedia - Case Citation
Case citation - United States. The standard case citation format in the United States is: Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) where: Ro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spanish Nouns: Encyclopedia Ii - Spanish Nouns - Gender
All Spanish nouns have one of two grammatical genders: masculine or feminine (mostly conventional, that is, arbitrarily assigned). Most a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spanish Nouns: Encyclopedia Ii - Spanish Nouns - Number
There are two grammatical numbers: singular and plural. The singular form is the one found in dictionaries (base form). The plural is ind...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Gender - Manifestations Of Noun Classes
Grammatical gender - Agreement. The most common way in which noun classes are manifested in a language is through gender agreement. To ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Gender - Manifestations Of Noun Classes
Grammatical gender - Agreement. The most common way in which noun classes are manifested in a language is through gender agreement. To ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Gender - Types Of Noun Classes
Most Indo-European languages distinguish feminine, masculine and sometimes neuter noun classes. But this system of classification is not ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Gender - Noun Classes In Specific Languages
Grammatical gender - More than three grammatical genders/noun classes. Swahili Zulu Dyirbal Bats all Bantu languages some Slavic langu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Gender - Noun Classes In Specific Linguistic Families
Grammatical gender - Algonquian languages. The Ojibwe language and other members of the Algonquian languages distinguish between anima...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Gender - Noun Classes In Specific Languages
Grammatical gender - List of languages without grammatical genders/noun classes. This is an incomplete list, which may never be able ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finnish Language Noun Cases: Encyclopedia Ii - Finnish Language Noun Cases - Grammatical Cases
The grammatical cases perform all the important grammatical functions. Nominative The basic form of the noun Characteristic ending: none...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finnish Language Noun Cases: Encyclopedia Ii - Finnish Language Noun Cases - Locative Cases
The most important function of the locative cases is to indicate location. They are often divided into two groups: the internal locatives...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - English Grammar - Nouns
In English, nouns generally describe persons, places, things, and abstract ideas, and are treated as grammatically distinct from verbs. E...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Romanian Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Romanian Grammar - Nouns
Romanian grammar - Gender. Romanian nouns are categorized into three genders, masculine, feminine, and neuter, feature preserved from L...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hebrew Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Hebrew Grammar - Nouns
The Hebrew word for "noun" is שם עצם shem etsem. Hebrew nouns are inflected by gender, number (and sometimes by possession) but not ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Gender - Natural Gender And Grammatical Gender
The use of gender-based classification of nouns (as is common in Indo-European and Semitic) languages can sometimes be confusing, because...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Gender - Natural Gender And Grammatical Gender
The use of gender-based classification of nouns (as is common in Indo-European and Semitic) languages can sometimes be confusing, because...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Slovak Declension: Encyclopedia Ii - Slovak Declension - Nouns
For each gender, there are four basic declension paradigms (i. e. declension models). Note that many nouns (especially those following th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - German Grammar - Nouns
A German noun has one of three specific grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) and belongs to one of three declensions. These ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Finnish Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Finnish Grammar - Noun Forms
The Finnish language does not distinguish gender in nouns or even in personal pronouns: 'hän' = 'he' or 'she' depending on the referent....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender - Grammatical Gender
Main article: grammatical gender In linguistics, grammatical gender is a type of inflection. We say that a language has grammatical gende...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Welsh Morphology: Encyclopedia Ii - Welsh Morphology - Nouns
Like most other Indo-European languages, all nouns belong to a certain grammatical gender; in this case, masculine or feminine. Aside fro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - French Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - French Grammar - Nouns
Every French noun has a grammatical gender, either masculine or feminine. The grammatical gender of an animate noun usually corresponds t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Nominals: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Nominals - Nouns
Irish nominals - Gender. Nouns in Irish are divided into two genders, masculine and feminine. While gender should be learned when the n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greek - Nouns
Ancient Greek nouns have three numbers (singular, dual, and plural), three genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter) and five cases (nomi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Danish Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Danish Grammar - Nouns
There are two genders of nouns in Danish: Common and Neuter. The common nouns use the en article and the neuter ones use et. dreng = boy;...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Latin Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Latin Grammar - Nouns
Latin grammar - Cases. On the noun tables there are usually 5 (sometimes 7) cases: Nominative: indicates the subject of the sentence, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Identity: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Identity - Relationship To Gender Role
The related term, "gender role," has two meanings that in individual cases may be divergent: First, people's gender roles are the totalit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cyclic Number: Encyclopedia Ii - Cyclic Number - Special Cases
If leading zeros are not permitted on numerals, then 142857 is the only cyclic number in decimal. Allowing leading zeros, the sequence of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Collective Noun: Encyclopedia Ii - Collective Noun - Collective Nouns
Several collective nouns perform double, triple or even more duties. "Herd" is a legitimate collective noun for dozens of animals and (ra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arabic Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Arabic Grammar - Noun
Arabic grammar - State. The Arabic noun can take one of three states of definiteness: definite, indefinite or construct state. The defi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spanish Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Spanish Grammar - Nouns
Main article: Spanish nouns Spanish has nouns that express concrete objects, groups and classes of objects, qualities, feelings and other...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Georgian Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Georgian Grammar - Nouns
The declension of a noun depends on whether the root of the noun ends with a vowel or a consonant. If the root of the noun ends with a vo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Grammar - Nouns
In Dutch, nouns generally describe persons, places, things, and abstract ideas, and are treated as grammatically distinct from verbs. Nou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Italian Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Italian Grammar - Nouns I Nomi
Nouns in Italian have gender (masculine or feminine, but no neuter), and number (singular or plural). The gender and number is always sho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-specific Job Title: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-specific Job Title - Debate
There is extensive debate as to whether gender-specific job titles are appropriate in a professional setting. This debate reflects the de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Interlingua Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Interlingua Grammar - Nouns
Nouns inflect for number only. Plural nouns take -s after a vowel, -es after a consonant (but -hes after a final -c to preserve the [k] s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Esperanto Vocabulary: Encyclopedia Ii - Esperanto Vocabulary - Gender
Some Esperanto roots are semantically masculine or feminine. In general, feminine words are derived from their masculine equivalent. Esp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Common Misconceptions About Hiv And Aids: Encyclopedia Ii - Common Misconceptions About Hiv And Aids - The Distribution Of Aids Cases Casts Doubt On Hiv As The Cause. Viruses Are Not Gender-specific Yet Only A Small Proportion Of Aids Cases Are Among Women
The distribution of AIDS cases, whether in the United States or elsewhere in the world, invariably mirrors the prevalence of HIV in a pop...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Common Misconceptions About Hiv And Aids: Encyclopedia Ii - Common Misconceptions About Hiv And Aids - The Distribution Of Aids Cases Casts Doubt On Hiv As The Cause. Viruses Are Not Gender-specific, Yet Only A Small Proportion Of Aids Cases Are Among Women
The distribution of AIDS cases, whether in the United States or elsewhere in the world, invariably mirrors the prevalence of HIV in a pop...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - God And Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - God And Gender - Christian Views Of God And Gender
In Christianity, one Person of the Trinity, the Son, is believed to have become incarnate as a human male. Most Christians believe that t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Role: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Role - Culture And Gender Roles
Ideas of appropriate behaviour according to gender vary among cultures and era, although some aspects receive more widespread attention t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Nouns With Multiple Plurals
Some nouns have two plurals, one used to refer to a number of things considered individually, the other to refer to a number of things co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Grammar - Nouns And Other Deictics
Japanese nouns are non-inflecting and have neither gender nor number; in addition, Japanese lacks articles. Thus, 猫 (neko) can be trans...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender - Sex
Main article: Biological sex Gender can refer to the (biological) condition of being male or female, applied to humans, animals, plants, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Defective Nouns
Some nouns have no singular form. Such a noun is called a plurale tantum: annals, billiards*, measles, nuptials, thanks, tidings, victua...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Noun: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Noun
Noun.   See NUT   (See also: Noun , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)      » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-neutral Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-neutral Language - Reference
Gender-neutral language - Examples. One might state, "Tomorrow I will meet my new doctor; I hope he is friendly."; however, unless one ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - German Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - German Grammar - Nominal Or Noun Phrases
(The content of this section is not yet applicable for proper names.) A German nominal phrase, in general, consists of the following comp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender - Social Category
Since 1950 an increasing part of the academic literature, and of the public discourse uses gender for the perceived or projected (self-id...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender - Other Uses
Gender - Fasteners and connectors. In electrical and mechanical trades and manufacturing, each of a pair of mating connectors or fasten...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender - Etymology And Usage
Gender comes from Middle English gendre, from Latin genus, all meaning "kind", "sort", or "type". Ultimately from the proto Indo European...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender - Etymology And Usage
Gender comes from Middle English gendre, from Latin genus, all meaning "kind", "sort", or "type". Ultimately from the proto Indo European...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Collective Noun: Encyclopedia Ii - Collective Noun - Origins
Many nouns used are colourful, or even fanciful; this originated in an English hunting tradition (of uncertain origin) for giving poetic ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-specific Job Title: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-specific Job Title - Generally Accepted Writing Conventions
Proponents of gender-neutral job titles believe they should be used, especially when referring to hypothetical persons. For example, fire...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old English Morphology: Encyclopedia Ii - Old English Morphology - Nouns
Old English nouns were declined – that is, the ending of the noun changed to reflect its function in the sentence. There were five majo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-neutral Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-neutral Language - Gender Neutral Language Modification In Other Languages
The situation of gender neutral language modification is very different in languages that have masculine and feminine grammatical gender,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Number: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Number - Inverse Number
The languages of the Kiowa-Tanoan family have three numbers — singular, dual, and plural — and exhibit an unusual system, called inve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Plurals Of Headless Nouns
Linguist Steven Pinker, in his book, The Language Instinct discusses what he calls "headless words", typically bahuvrihis, like lowlife a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abrahamic Religions On God And Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Abrahamic Religions On God And Gender - Christian Views Of God And Gender
In Christianity, one person of God, the Son, is believed to have become incarnate as a human male. Most Christians believe that the other...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Swahili Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Swahili Language - Noun Classes
In common with all Bantu languages, Swahili grammar arranges nouns into a number of classes. The ancestral system had 22 classes, countin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Role: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Role - Transgendered And Intersexed People
As long as a person's perceived physiological sex is consistent with that person's gender identity, the gender role of a person is so muc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-neutral Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-neutral Language - Examples
One might state, "Tomorrow I will meet my new doctor; I hope he is friendly."; however, unless one is certain that the new doctor is a ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Use Case: Encyclopedia Ii - Use Case - Use Case Templates
There is no standard template for documenting detailed use cases. There are a number of competing schemes, and individuals are encouraged...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - God And Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - God And Gender - Translating The Names Of God Into English
There are a number of ways that one can translate the names of God into English from Hebrew. The Tetragrammaton is composed of the Hebrew...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-neutral Pronoun: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-neutral Pronoun - English
In English, the only gender-specific pronouns are in the third-person singular: he, him, himself, his, she, her, herself, and hers. The t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Grammar - Nouns And Adjectives
All Portuguese nouns have one of two genders: masculine or inclusive and feminine or exclusive. Most adjectives and pronouns, and all art...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Role: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Role - Brief Description Of Gender Roles In Prison
Gender roles in prison go further than the "Don't drop the soap" joke. The truth is that some prisoners, either by choice or by force, ta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-neutral Pronoun: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-neutral Pronoun - English
In English, the only gender-specific pronouns are in the third-person singular: he, him, himself, his, she, her, herself, and hers. The t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Role: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Role - Brief Description Of Gender Roles In Prison
Gender roles in prison go further than the "Don't drop the soap"-joke. The truth is that some prisoners, either by choice or by force, ta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Number: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Number - Formal Expression Of Number
Synthetic languages typically distinguish grammatical number by inflection. (Note that analytic languages, such as Chinese, don't have gr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Verb: Encyclopedia Ii - Verb - Verbal Noun And Verbal Adjective
Most languages have a number of verbal nouns that describe the action of the verb. In Indo-European languages, there are several kinds of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Incorporation Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Incorporation Linguistics - Semantics Of Noun Incorporation
In many cases, a phrase with an incorporated noun carries a different meaning with respect to the equivalent phrase where the noun is not...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-neutral Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-neutral Language - Disputed Issues
There are a wide range of disputed issues in the debate over 'non-sexist language'. Are there inherently sexist language forms, and if so...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Latin Declension: Encyclopedia Ii - Latin Declension - Noun Declensions
There are five declensions of nouns in Latin. Latin declension - First declension a. Nouns of this declension usually end in –a and a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-specific Pronoun: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-specific Pronoun - Pronouns And Personal Gender
In general, transgendered people insist on being referred to by the gender pronoun appropriate to the gender they identify as. Some gende...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Role: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Role - Gender Roles And Feminism
Most feminists argue that traditional gender roles are oppressive for women. They assume that the female gender role was constructed as a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sexuality And Gender Identity-based Cultures: Encyclopedia Ii - Sexuality And Gender Identity-based Cultures - Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity-based Cultures Lgbt
Sexual minorities defined by sexual orientation and gender identity — gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people — are often se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - God And Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - God And Gender - Criticism Of Feminine Reconstructions Of Theology
Grammatically, most of the Hebrew names for God are masculine; a few are grammatically feminine; the grammatical form of words has no bio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Role: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Role - Gender Roles And Feminism
Most feminists argue that traditional gender roles are oppressive for women. They assume that the female gender role was constructed as a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Number: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Number - Types Of Number
As we have seen, in many languages number is limited to two categories: singular number, distinguishing between one referent and plural n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Identity Disorder: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Identity Disorder - Diagnostic Criteria
Gender identity disorder - DSM-IV. The current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has five criteria t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender-neutral Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender-neutral Language - History
Many of the masculine terms in Modern English come from gender neutral terms in Old English. For example, the word man was originally gen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Accusative Case: Encyclopedia Ii - Accusative Case - Example
In the sentence I see the car, the noun phrase the car is the direct object of the verb "see". In English, which has mostly lost the case...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Use Case: Encyclopedia Ii - Use Case - Use Case Diagrams
Many people are introduced to use cases via UML, which defines a graphical notation for representing use cases called the Use case model....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender Role: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender Role - Sexual Orientation And Gender Roles
Traditional gender roles include male attraction to females, and vice versa. Gay, lesbian, bisexual people, and others usually don't conf...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noun: Encyclopedia Ii - Noun - Classification Of Nouns
Noun - Proper nouns and common nouns. Proper nouns (also called proper names) are the names of unique entities. For example, "Janet", "...   » Read the article