Countified vs Countifies - What's the difference?
countified | countifies |
(countify)
(transitive, linguistics, rare) To use as a count noun.
* 1965 , Robert P. Stockwell, Jean Donald Bowen, and John Watson Martin, The Grammatical Structures of English and Spanish , University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226775046, page 81,
* 1989 , Francis Jeffry Pelletier and Lenhart K. Schubert, “Mass Expressions”, in Dov M. Gabbay and F. Guenthner (editors), Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Second Edition , Volume 10, Springer (2003), ISBN 1-4020-1644-1,
* 1992 , James F. Allen and Lenhart K. Schubert, “Language and Discourse in the TRAINS Project”, in Andrew Ortony, John Slack, and Oliviero Stock (editors), Communication From an Artificial Intelligence Perspective: Theoretical and Applied Issues , NATO ASI Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences, Volume 100, Springer, ISBN 3540558810, page 104,
As verbs the difference between countified and countifies
is that countified is (countify) while countifies is (countify).countified
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(head)countify
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- We can, for instance, “countify'” mass nouns which come to be associated with a standard counter or container.
- Any stuff for which there are standard portions used for whatever purposes will immediately become countified : three beers, an ice cream, an entertainment , etc.
- Under deviant vocabulary we include “verbing” of nouns (He tricycled away''), and perhaps “massifying” of count nouns and “countifying'''” of mass nouns. (Note that the preceding sentence itself contains instances of deviant vocabulary in scare quotes.) “Massifying” and “'''countifying ” are illustrated respectively by ''A year ago they started digging the hole for his house; A year later, there's still more hole than house; and (SIC) How many orange juice (SIC) will that give us? .