Questions tagged [nouns]
This tag is for questions about nouns. Nouns are words that refer to an entity, quality, state, action, or concept. Add this tag to single-word-requests if you are looking for a noun. Add the tag word-usage if you are asking about the usage of the noun.
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Usage of singular noun as a concept for generalization
I have recently come across two sentences that feature the usage of singular nouns to generalise the statement as they follow.
"The presence of the gene predisposes a person to heart disease&...
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Can I use the noun "luge steering" to refer to the act of steering a luge? [migrated]
For a research paper about the luge sport, I initially wrote: "According to our model of luge steering [...]". A colleague remarked that this sounds strange. According to him, nobody would ...
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Is "The Shining" a title with a gerund, or a regular -ing noun? [duplicate]
Does using "the" or "a" in front of a gerund alter it somehow? "A painting," for example, is not a gerund, and if a book were titled "The Painting" it would not ...
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Is Swirling a noun?
I have got a title composition from AI "Swirlings of simple Things".
Also in the Leo online dictionary is Swirling listed as a noun (https://dict.leo.org/englisch-deutsch/swirling).
But I ...
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Sink vs Basin distinction
In australian-english, a sink is a fixture for washing dishes (kitchen sink), clothes (laundry sink, or for big ones, laundry tub), or buckets (cleaner's sink) while a basin is for washing hands (hand ...
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Using "content" vs. "contents" when referring to multiple written works
I am aware of the previous discussions on "content" vs. "contents". According to the top answer there, it looks like they can be used interchangeably when referring to a written ...
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Using the terms gesture, gestural and gesturality
I am trying to understand the difference between, and I'm not sure how to describe it, something like: agree, agreeable and agreeability; approach, approachable and approachability etc...I'm ...
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Why is "second" an adverb in "came a close second"?
Consider the following example sentence excerpted from Oxford Learner's Dictionaries:
One of the smaller parties came a close second (= nearly won).
Much to my surprise, the example sentence is ...
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A descriptive noun (slang term?) for “cordial while also inept and disagreeable”
Context: a business manager who supports their team but refuses to enable them through innovations.
I am looking for a noun that describes a particular type of person (male, female, or trans) by ...
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Another word for shaking [duplicate]
I can't find a noun that go with this sentence:
He tried not to shake, but he was already shaking like a ???.
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Usage of “Effects” [duplicate]
I came across this sentence:
“This new patch commit can be cherry-picked directly to the main branch to fix the bug before it effects more users.”
I find the usage of “effects” here to be weird. Is ...
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Greatest extent possible vs Greatest possible extent [adjective position]
I know the following sentences basically mean the same thing:
We need to reduce pollution to the greatest extent possible.
We need to reduce pollution to the greatest possible extent.
so my ...
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Noun of noun agreement
I had a question regarding MLK's speech "I have a dream", and the following quote more especially:
I have a dream that my four little children will not be judged by the colour of their skin ...
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Capitalization and Use of Acronyms? [duplicate]
When examining algorithms like the Decision Tree Classifier, should it be capitalized as "Decision Tree Classifier (DTC)" or written in lowercase as "decision tree classifier (DTC)"...
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Shortening multi-word proper nouns to one word, kept capitalized [duplicate]
I was reading the Wikipedia article for Joe Arridy and near the bottom it mentions an organization called "Friends of Joe Arridy", and then instead of restating the entire proper noun, it's ...
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