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/naʊn/
A word that names a person, a place, a thing, a feeling, or an idea.
名詞
複數 nouns
核心畫面
Picture pointing at something and giving it a name — a dog, , a cup, fear, freedom. Notice the last two: you cannot point at them, yet English still treats them as things you can name, count sometimes, and put in front of a verb. That is what makes a noun a noun — not whether you can touch it, but whether the language handles it as a thing.
可以想成：指著某樣東西，然後給它一個名字——狗、台北、杯子、恐懼、自由。注意後面兩個：你根本指不到它們，但英文照樣把…更多收起
可以想成：指著某樣東西，然後給它一個名字——狗、台北、杯子、恐懼、自由。注意後面兩個：你根本指不到它們，但英文照樣把它們當成「可以被命名的東西」，有時候還能數，還能放在動詞前面當主詞。決定一個字是不是名詞的，不是摸不摸得到，而是語言把它當不當成一樣東西來處理。原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Nounname
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A department of the West Region, Cameroon.
nounnoun/naʊn/
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA 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.
- Communication is a kind of beauty, he said – and “beauty manifests itself from the noun itself, without strawberries on the cake.”
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archaicgrammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsEither 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.
- A Noun is a word which serves to name and distinguish some thing; [...]. There are two sorts of nouns; one is called a noun substantive, and the other a noun adjective.
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computingengineeringmathematicsAn 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.
- You choose either (1) the verb (change font) first and then select the noun (the paragraph) to which the verb should apply or (2) the noun first and then apply the verb.
nounverb/naʊn/
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To convert a word to a noun.
- What is not clear is how the nouning of verbs supports Simon's assumed correspondence between mechanical designing and intentional human responses. Is it the very nouning of verbs which indicates that the above correspondence exists?
- 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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。