concrete noun

To him, an isosceles triangle may represent any factor, though probably a concrete noun.

For I judged we had covered a bare five hundred words, most of those concrete nouns and simple verbs.

On the one hand, it can be described as a linguistic text: X contains simple words, more abstract than concrete nouns, etc.

Iti usually refers to something abstract but may also refer to concrete nouns.

Most terms of endearment are concrete nouns that have favorable associations, either with a sweet taste or the nature of the relationship.

The topics can be abstract or concrete nouns, people, political events, quotations or proverbs.

In Malay grammar, classifiers are used to count all concrete nouns, including phrasal nouns.

The suffix is used to form both concrete nouns (in the neuter) and abstract nouns (in the common).

The patient could not write non-words to dictation, spelled concrete nouns better than abstract nouns, and was poor at spelling function words.

In language, abstract and concrete objects are often synonymous with concrete nouns and abstract nouns.

Son also takes its keyword, which most often, but not necessarily, is a concrete noun, as its DSyntA I.

As a writer, Remnick practices a classic journalistic style: concrete nouns, active verbs, graceful sentences, solid paragraphs, subtle transitions.

Pluralized concrete nouns used as abstract nouns call for a singular form of the verb, i.e. "Apples is good for you."

Concrete nouns refer to physical entities that can, in principle at least, be observed by at least one of the senses (for instance, chair, apple, Janet or atom).

Class II contains all sorts of nouns but most of the concrete nouns in Class II are long or cylindrical.

At first he had been able to grasp only simple concrete nouns, straightforward adjectives: a hand raised to the mouth for "food," for instance, or a rubbed stomach for "hungry."

These hierarchies are most easily demonstrated by concrete nouns (e.g. collie ISA dog ISA animal, etc.)

Concrete nouns like "cabbage" refer to physical bodies that can be observed by at least one of the senses while abstract nouns, like "love" and "hate" refer to abstract objects.

Gombrowicz's penchant for depicting mental states through physical correlatives, and for twisting concrete nouns into verb forms, makes for an intense condensation of language and some startling syntactical distortions.

In comparison with the Conrad passage, purely concrete nouns (engine, wagons, colt, gorse, railway, hedge, basket, etc) are here more frequent, and indeed account for more than two-thirds of all nouns.

Not just conceptual metaphors (part of every language) that express belief in analogy between generic concepts, but extremely specific metaphors involving proper names or use of concrete nouns to express generics or processes.

She is also well known for her research on the shape bias (Landau et al. 1988), children's tendency to generalize new concrete nouns on the basis of the shape of the object to which they refer.

They are most characteristic in their abstractness and lack of concrete nouns; the adjectives are rarely sensory (related to sight, touch, etc.) and there are no extended references to nature as found in many troubadours.

First, we may notice that almost half the concrete nouns refer to general topographical features which, as it were, divide the field of vision into geographical areas and points of focus: domain, ocean, islets, sea, shore, sky, river, earth, cloud, guy, etc.

In severe cases, even the ability to repeat single words is not intact; for example, a patient, KC, was not perfect even when single common concrete nouns were spoken to him, with his task being to repeat back each one immediately.