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Noun vs Countification - What's the difference?

noun | countification |

As nouns the difference between noun and countification

is that noun is (grammar|sensu lato) a name of a thing either a noun substantive, which can stand alone and does not require another word to be joined with it to show its signification, or a noun adjective, which can not stand by itself, but requires to be joined with some other word, in order to make sense while countification is (rare|linguistics) the conversion of a noncountable noun to a countable noun form.

As a verb noun

is to convert a word to a noun.

noun

English

(wikipedia noun)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (grammar, sensu lato) A name of a thing. Either a noun substantive, which can stand alone and does not require another word to be joined with it to show its signification, or a noun adjective, which can not stand by itself, but requires to be joined with some other word, in order to make sense.
  • (grammar, sensu stricto) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

    • Usage notes

    * (sensu stricto) In English (and in many other languages), a noun can serve as the subject or object of a verb. For example, the English words (table) and (computer) are nouns. See .

    Synonyms

    * name, nameword * (sensu stricto) noun substantive, substantive

    Hyponyms

    * (sensu lato) noun substantive = substantive, noun adjective = adjective * (sensu stricto) See also

    Derived terms

    * abstract noun * adjectival noun * attributive noun * collective noun * common noun * concrete noun * count noun * mass noun * non-count noun * noun adjunct * noun clause * noun of assemblage * noun of multitude * noun phrase * plural noun * pronoun * proper noun * uncount noun

    Related terms

    * nominal

    See also

    * countable

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To convert a word to a noun.
  • * 1992 , Lewis Acrelius Froman, Language and Power: Books III, IV, and V
    • For example, that females are different from but equal to males is oxymoronic by virtue of the nouned status of female and male as kinds of persons.
  • * 2000 , Andrew J. DuBrin, The complete idiot's guide to leadership
    • However, too much nouning makes you sound bureaucratic, immature, and verbally challenged. Top executives convert far fewer nouns into verbs than do workers at lower levels.

    Anagrams

    * English autological terms ----

    countification

    English

    Noun

  • (rare, linguistics) The conversion of a noncountable noun to a countable noun form.
  • * 1969 , The Yugoslav Serbo-Croatian-English Contrastive Project
    • With some mass and abstract nouns, "countification" is accompanied by a shift of meaning: paper (SC papir) vs. a paper (SC novine, dokument)...
  • * 1995 , "Marilyn Martin", Article question redux'' (on Internet newsgroup ''bit.listserv.tesl-l )
    • The use of A with GRAIN gives the class membership of the item and illustrates the "countification" of mass nouns, with the deletion of the understood "type(s) of."
  • * 2010 , Ben Zimmer, New York Times (24 May 2010)
    • The countification of e-mail mirrors some other recent developments in tech-talk.

    Related terms

    *countify

    References

    [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/magazine/09FOB-onlanguage-t.html] Zimmer, Ben (May 7, 2010). "The Plural of E-Mail". The New York Times . Retrieved May 24, 2010.