What is the difference between plural and uncountable?
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Consisting of or containing more than one of something.
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(comparable) Pluralistic.
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(grammar): a word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form.
So many as to be incapable of being counted.
(mathematics) Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
(grammar, of a noun) Describes a meaning of a noun that cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and which therefore takes no plural form. Example: information .
As adjectives the difference between plural and uncountable
is that plural is consisting of or containing more than one of something while uncountable is so many as to be incapable of being counted.As nouns the difference between plural and uncountable
is that plural is (grammar): a word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form while uncountable is (linguistics) an uncountable noun.plural
English
(wikipedia plural)Alternative forms
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(more)- Plural faith, which is too much by one.
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(en noun)Usage notes
* Many languages have singular and plural forms for one item or more than one item. Some have a singular form for one, dual form for two, trial form for three, paucal form for several, and plural for more than two (e.g., Arabic, Fijian). * While the plural form generally refers to two or more persons or things, that is not always the case. The plural form is often used for zero persons or things, for fractional things in a quantity greater than one, and for people or things when the quantity is unknown. * In English, the plural is most often formed simply by adding the letter "s" to the end of a noun, e.g. apple/apples. There are many exceptions, however, such as echo/echoes, mouse/mice, child/children, deer/deer (same word), etc.Antonyms
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English
Adjective
(-)- The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.
- Cantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable .
- Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns.
- One meaning in law of the supposedly uncountable noun "information" is used in the plural and is countable.