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 - 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

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - List Of Collective Nouns For Birds: Encyclopedia - List Of Collective Nouns For Birds
See also Collective noun. List of collective nouns for birds - External link. An exhaustive (though possibly partly fictitious) list of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstraction: Encyclopedia - Abstraction
An abstraction is an idea, concept, or word which defines the phenomena that make up its referents (those concrete events or things to wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstract: Encyclopedia - Abstract
Abstract may mean: Abstract (law), a brief statement of the most important points of a long legal document or of several related legal p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Concrete Philosophy: Encyclopedia - Concrete Philosophy
This article is about the philosophical term . For the construction material, see Concrete. For the comic book, see Concrete (comics). In...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Concrete: Encyclopedia - Concrete
In construction, concrete is a composite building material made from the combination of aggregate and cement binder. The most common form...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstract Interpretation: Encyclopedia - Abstract Interpretation
In computer science, Abstract interpretation is a theory of sound approximation of the semantics of computer programs, based on monotonic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Concrete Category: Encyclopedia - Concrete Category
In mathematics, a concrete category is a category in which, roughly speaking, all objects are sets possibly carrying some additional stru...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Concrete Dome: Encyclopedia - Concrete Dome
Concrete domes have been used in building construction for millennia. The Pantheon in Rome, completed about AD 125, has a massive concret...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asphalt Concrete: Encyclopedia - Asphalt Concrete
Asphalt concrete, normally known simply as asphalt, is a composite material commonly used for construction of paved roads, highways and p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Concrete Poetry: Encyclopedia - Concrete Poetry
Concrete poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the convent...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Noun: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Noun
Noun.   See NUT   (See also: Noun , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)      » 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Official: Encyclopedia Ii - Official - Official As A Noun
Official - Ecclesiastical judiciary. In Canon law, the word is used absolutely, as the legal title of a type of diocesan judge within t...   » 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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

Encyclopedia - Atlantic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Atlantic Languages - Noun Classes
Atlantic languages have noun class systems similar to those found in other Niger-Congo languages, most famously the Bantu languages. Bant...   » 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - English Compound: Encyclopedia Ii - English Compound - Compound Nouns
Most English compound nouns are noun phrases (= nominal phrases) that include a noun modified by adjectives or attributive nouns. Due to ...   » 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Irish Verbs: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Verbs - Verbal Nouns
Irish verbs - Formation of the verbal noun. Irish has no infinitive and uses instead the verbal noun. The verbal noun can be formed usi...   » 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 - 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 - 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 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 - Doctor Title: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctor Title - The Noun Doctor In The Medical Profession
In American and Canadian parlance, "doctor" is most often used for all types of physicians and surgeons, including internists, pediatrici...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doctor: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctor - The Noun Doctor In The Medical Profession
In American and Canadian parlance, "doctor" is most often used for all types of physicians and surgeons, including internists, pediatrici...   » 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 - 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 - 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 - Irish Syntax: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Syntax - Syntax Of The Verbal Noun
A progressive aspect can be formed by connecting the verbal noun to the existential verb with the progressive particle ag. The object of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adjective: Encyclopedia Ii - Adjective - Nominal Use Of Adjectives And Adjectival Use Of Nouns
Adjective - Nominal use of adjectives. Adjectives are sometimes used in place of nouns, as in many of the Beatitudes (e.g. "Blessed are...   » 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 - Classical Nahuatl Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Classical Nahuatl Grammar - Basic Nouns
There are five basic nouns endings in Nahuatl. In Nahuatl, nouns take a suffix called the "absolutive". This suffix takes the form -tl af...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - X-bar Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - X-bar Theory - A Simple Noun Phrase
The noun phrase "the cat" might be rendered like this: NP / \ DetP N' | | Det' N | | Det cat | the The...   » 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 - Japanese Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Mythology - Spelling Of Proper Nouns
A lot of deities appear on the stage of Japanese mythology, and many of them have multiple aliases. Furthermore, some of their names are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese Particles: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Particles - Noun- And Verb-derived Postpositional Idioms
Japanese particles - Noun-derived postpositional idioms. Jō is a postpositional idiom which means "from the standpoint of". It only f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Common Indo-european Roots: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Common Indo-european Roots - Nouns
List of common Indo-European roots - Kinship. manu- (person): S manus-, I man-us, E mann/man, R muž, B žmonės/, N mânša nō-m.n (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstract Labour And Concrete Labour: Encyclopedia Ii - Abstract Labour And Concrete Labour - Abstract Labour And Exchange
Marx himself considered that all economising reduced to the economical use of human labour-time; "to economise" ultimately meant saving o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstract Labour And Concrete Labour: Encyclopedia Ii - Abstract Labour And Concrete Labour - Abstract Labour And Capitalism
If the production process itself becomes organised as a specifically capitalist production process, then the abstraction process is deepe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstract Labour And Concrete Labour: Encyclopedia Ii - Abstract Labour And Concrete Labour - Controversies
Marx regarded the distinction between abstract and concrete labour as being among the most important innovations he contributed to the th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstract Labour And Concrete Labour: Encyclopedia Ii - Abstract Labour And Concrete Labour - Abstract Treatment Of Labour-time
In order to make this distinction, it must be possible to think abstractly about human work, and consider it separately from any particul...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Groundwork Of The Metaphysic Of Morals: Encyclopedia Ii - Groundwork Of The Metaphysic Of Morals - Examples From The Abstract To The Concrete
Kant uses the same four examples throughout the Groundwork: 1) that of someone sick of life, contemplating suicide, 2) that of someone wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Groundwork Of The Metaphysic Of Morals: Encyclopedia Ii - Groundwork Of The Metaphysic Of Morals - Examples From The Abstract To The Concrete
Kant uses the same four examples throughout the Groundwork: 1) that of someone sick of life, contemplating suicide, 2) that of someone wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstraction: Encyclopedia Ii - Abstraction - Abstraction In Art
Most typically abstraction is used in the arts as a synonym of Abstract art in general. It can, however, refer to any object or image whi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstraction: Encyclopedia Ii - Abstraction - Abstraction Used In Philosophy
Abstraction in philosophy is the (oft-alleged) process, in concept-formation, of recognizing some common feature among a number of indivi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstraction: Encyclopedia Ii - Abstraction - Thought Process
In philosophical terminology abstraction is the thought process wherein ideas are distanced from objects. Abstraction uses a strategy of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstraction: Encyclopedia Ii - Abstraction - Referents
Abstractions sometimes have ambiguous referents; for example, "happiness" (when used as an abstraction) can refer to many things as there...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstraction Computer Science: Encyclopedia Ii - Abstraction Computer Science - Abstraction In Object Oriented Programming
In object-oriented programming theory, abstraction is the facility to define objects that represent abstract "actors" that can perform wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstraction Computer Science: Encyclopedia Ii - Abstraction Computer Science - Abstraction In Object Oriented Programming
In object-oriented programming theory, abstraction is the facility to define objects that represent abstract "actors" that can perform wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstraction Computer Science: Encyclopedia Ii - Abstraction Computer Science - Data Abstraction
Data abstraction is the enforcement of a clear separation between the abstract properties of a data type and the concrete details of its ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstract Interpretation: Encyclopedia Ii - Abstract Interpretation - Examples Of Abstract Domains
One can assign to each variable x available at a given program point an interval [lx,hx]. A state assigning the value v(x) to variable x ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstraction Computer Science: Encyclopedia Ii - Abstraction Computer Science - Data Abstraction
Data abstraction is the enforcement of a clear separation between the abstract properties of a data type and the concrete details of its ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstract Interpretation: Encyclopedia Ii - Abstract Interpretation - Intuition
We shall now illustrate what abstract interpretation would mean on concrete, not computing examples. Let us consider the people in a conf...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstract Interpretation: Encyclopedia Ii - Abstract Interpretation - Formalization
Let L be an ordered set, called a concrete set and let L' be another ordered set, called an abstract set. These two sets are related to e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstract Factory Pattern: Encyclopedia Ii - Abstract Factory Pattern - How To Use It
The factory determines the actual concrete type of object to be created, and it is here that the object is actually created (in C++, for ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Concrete: Encyclopedia Ii - Concrete - Self Compacting Concretes
During the 1980s a number of countries including Japan, Sweden and France developed a range of concretes that were self-compacting. These...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstract Interpretation: Encyclopedia Ii - Abstract Interpretation - Abstract Interpretation Of Computer Programs
Given a programming or specification language, abstract interpretation consists in giving several semantics linked by relations of abstra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Concrete: Encyclopedia Ii - Concrete - Shotcrete / Sprayed Concrete
Main article: Shotcrete Shotcrete uses compressed air to shoot (cast) concrete to a frame or structure. Shotcrete is mostly used for rock...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstraction Computer Science: Encyclopedia Ii - Abstraction Computer Science - Semantics
When discussing formal semantics of programming languages, formal methods or abstract interpretation, abstraction refers to the act of co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstraction Computer Science: Encyclopedia Ii - Abstraction Computer Science - Semantics
When discussing formal semantics of programming languages, formal methods or abstract interpretation, abstraction refers to the act of co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Concretes: Encyclopedia Ii - The Concretes - History
The Concretes began as a three member all girl band with Victoria Bergsman, Maria Eriksson, and Lisa Milsberg. Since then they have picke...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abstract Factory Pattern: Encyclopedia Ii - Abstract Factory Pattern - Example
An example in C# /* * GUIFactory example */ abstract class GUIFactory { public static GUIFactory getFactory() { int sys = r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Concrete: Encyclopedia Ii - Concrete - Characteristics
During hydration and hardening, concrete needs to develop certain physical and chemical properties, among others, mechanical strength, lo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Concrete: Encyclopedia Ii - Concrete - Workability
Workability is the ability of a fresh (plastic) concrete mix to fill the form/mould properly with the desired work (vibration) and withou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reinforced Concrete: Encyclopedia Ii - Reinforced Concrete - Fiber-reinforced Concrete
Fiber-reinforcement is mainly used in shotcrete, but can also be used in normal concrete. Fiber-reinforced normal concrete are mostly use...   » 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