Several collective nouns perform double, triple or even more duties. "Herd" is a legitimate collective noun for dozens of animals and (rather curiously) the mythical fairy. Also interestingly, "herd" can be used with wild horses and domestic cattle, but not with domestic horses. Likewise, "flock" is a generic collective noun for all sorts of flying birds and also for sheep. The all-time champion collective noun is "set", for it can legitimately be used as a collective noun for a vast number of concepts (a set of ideals, ...

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Many nouns used are colourful, or even fanciful; this originated in an English hunting tradition (of uncertain origin) for giving poetic names to prey. (The phrase "terms of venery" is an archaic synonym for collective nouns - "venery" in this context meaning the "act of hunting"). For this reason, most collective nouns refer to animals. This tradition dates back to at least the 15th century. Many of these original collective nouns are archaic: a "harass of horses" doesn't s ...

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In the above sentence, "computer" is an adjective because it is describing "company". Cleanliness is next to Godliness. The World Wide Web has become the least expensive way to publish information. A noun, or noun substantive, is a part of speech (a word or phrase) which can co-occur with (in)definite articles and attributive adjectives, and function as the head of a noun phrase. The word "noun" derives from the Latin nomen meaning "name", and ...

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In the above sentence, "computer" is an adjective because it is describing "company". Cleanliness is next to Godliness. The World Wide Web has become the least expensive way to publish information. A noun, or noun substantive, is a part of speech (a word or phrase) which can co-occur with (in)definite articles and attributive adjectives, and function as the head of a noun phrase. The word "noun" derives from the Latin nomen meaning "name", and ...

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See also Collective noun. List of collective nouns for birds - External link. An exhaustive (though possibly partly fictitious) list of collective nouns for birds Category: Lists of collective nouns ...

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In the above sentence, "computer" is an adjective because it is describing "company". Cleanliness is next to Godliness. The World Wide Web has become the least expensive way to publish information. A noun, or noun substantive, is a part of speech (a word or phrase) which can co-occur with (in)definite articles and attributive adjectives, and function as the head of a noun phrase. The word "noun" derives from the Latin nomen meaning "name", and ...

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Noun - Nouns and pronouns Noun - Case, number, and gender Noun - Classification of nouns
Noun - Count nouns and mass nouns Noun - Collective nouns Noun - Concrete nouns and abstract nouns

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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 form, as well as co-occurring with quantificational determiners like every, each, several, most, etc. A mass noun has none of these properties. It can't be modified by a numeral, occur in singular/plural or co-occur with the relevant kind of determiner. Below we see examples of all these properties for the count noun cow and the mass noun cattle. As alway ...

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Collective can also refer to the collective pitch flight control in helicopters A collective is a group of people who share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest, or work together on a specific project(s) to achieve a common objective. Collectives are also characterised by attempts to share and exercise political and social power and to make decisions on a consensus-driven and egalitarian basis. Collectives differ from cooperatives in that they are not necessarily focused upon an econ ...

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A pass (as a noun) can refer to: a mountain pass, a low place in a mountain range allowing easier passage a strait or passage, usually used of one that is very narrow but still navigable permission, such as a hall pass to visit the restroom in school, or a pass to be away from one's unit for a short period in the U.S. military a special ticket, representing some subscription, in particular for unlimited use of a service or collection of services, e.g.: <

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Conodonta Hyperoartia Petromyzontidae (lampreys) Pteraspidomorphi (early jawless fish) Thelodonti Anaspida Cephalaspidomorphi (early jawless fish) Galeaspida Pituriaspida Osteostraci Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) Placodermi Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) Acanthodii Osteichthyes (bony fish) Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish)
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A waiter is a person who "waits" on tables, often at a restaurant. A female waiter is often called a waitress, though the gender-neutral term "server" and collective noun "waitstaff" are gaining ground. Waiters' duties include preparing tables for a meal, taking customers' orders and serving drinks and food in a restaurant. Depending on the type of restaurant, this may involve other uncommon duties, such as singing a birthday song to customers who are celebrating a birthday. A theme ...

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Basmala (Arabic بسملة) is an Arabic-language noun which is used as the collective name of the whole of the recurring Islamic phrase bismi-llāhi ar-raḥmāni ar-raḥīmi (listen). This phrase constitutes the first verse of the first "sura" (or chapter) of the Qur'an, and is used in a number of contexts by Muslims. It is recited several times as part of Muslim daily prayers, and it is usually the first phrase in the pream ...

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Literature is literally "acquaintance with letters" as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning "an individual written character (letter)"). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts. The word "literature" as a common noun can refer to any form of writing, such as essays; "Literature" as a proper noun refers to a whole body of literary work, often relating to a specific culture. Literature - Introduction. Nations can have literature ...

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The Bamileke (French Bamiléké) are a collection of Semi-Bantu (or Grassfields Bantu) ethnic groups most highly concentrated in the western highlands of Cameroon's West Province, west of the Noun River and southeast of the Bamboutos Mountains and in the Mungo region of the Littoral, Southwest, and Centre Provinces. The Bamileke divide themselves into over 100 individual groups, each under the rule of a chief or fon. Nonetheless, all of these groups are related historically, culturally, and linguistically. With ov ...

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The term herd is also applied metaphorically to human beings in social psychology, with the concept of herd behaviour. However both the term and concepts that underly its use are controversial. The term is often used carelessly and applied to a range of situations that have little in common either with each other or with the behaviour of animals in herds. It will be clear from the discussion above that the correct usage would be for situations where apparently organised behaviour results from a group of unco-ordinated pe ...

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All languages are able to specify the quantity of referents. They may do so by lexical means with words such as English a few, some, one, two, five hundred. However, not every language has a grammatical category of number. Grammatical number is expressed by morphological and/or syntactic means. That is, it is indicated by certain grammatical elements, such as through affixes or number words. Grammatical number m ...

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As we have seen, in many languages number is limited to two categories: singular number, distinguishing between one referent and plural number, distinguishing more than one referent. However, other instances of number exist, including: Nullar number, for zero instances of the referent (e.g. in Latvian) Dual number, for two instances of the referent (e.g. in Arabic, Slovenian, Ancient Greek, Sami and others) Trial number, for three instances of the referent (e.g. in some Australian and Austronesian ...

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Synthetic languages typically distinguish grammatical number by inflection. (Note that analytic languages, such as Chinese, don't have grammatical number.) Below are some examples of number affixes for nouns (where the inflecting morpheme is underlined): Affixes (such as suffixes, prefixes, simulfixes) Slovenian: lip-a "tree (singular)" ~ lip-i "tree (dual)" ~ lip-e "tree (plural)" Swahili: m-toto "child" (singular)" ~ wa-toto "child (plural) ...

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Grammatical number - Indo-European. English is typical of languages that have only singular and plural number. English does not distinguish among dual, trial, or paucal number. The plural form of a word is usually created by adding the suffix -s. Pronouns are irregular precisely because they are so common, such as the singular I and the plural we. See English plural for detail. Slovene, a Slavic language, is more complicated: Babarija (old ...

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