noun

noun3

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   A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

   • Records have been broken, races have been dedicated, dreams have been dreamed, starts have been falsed and nouns have been verbed. — 2011
2. •
   An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.

   • Nouns are the data; verbs are the data transformations, and therefore verbs represent much of the complexity of systems. — 1992
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   (no longer used) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.

   • Q. What is a Noun? A. The Name of a Thing. Q. How many Sorts of Nouns are there? [...] A. A Noun Substantive, and a Noun Adjective. — 1753

verb1

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   To convert a word to a noun.

   • 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. — 1992

noun1

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   A department of the West Region, Cameroon.