Noun

Quick meaning: Noun is a noun meaning (computing) An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.

Meaning

(computing) An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To convert a word to a noun.
2. (grammar, strictly) 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.
3. (grammar, now rare, loosely) 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.

Example Sentences

Records have been broken, races have been dedicated, dreams have been dreamed, starts have been falsed and nouns have been verbed.

Communication is a kind of beauty, he said – and “beauty manifests itself from the noun itself, without strawberries on the cake.”

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.

The Parts of Speech are the Noun (Substantive and Adjective), the Pronoun, the Verb, and the Particles (Adverb, Preposition, and Conjunction)[.]

Word Forms

• nouns
• nouning
• nouned

Synonyms for noun

Depending on context, synonyms include name, nameword, substantive.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include terminology, name, surname, substantive, number, latter.

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