In the Iliad, the word ares is used as a common noun synonymous with " battle.

In linguistics, ablative case ( abbreviated ) is a cases ( noun inflections ) in various languages whose common characteristic is that inter alia they mark motion away from something, though the details in each language may differ.

French Academy member Étienne Gilson summarized this long-known characteristic of the experienced world as follows :"... the word being is a noun ... it signifies either a being ( that is, the substance, nature, and essence of anything existent ), or being itself, a property common to all that which can rightly be said to be.

Cannon serves both as the singular and plural of the noun, although in American English the plural cannons is more common.

The word " demiurge " is an English word from a Latinized form of the Greek, dēmiourgos, literally " public worker ", and which was originally a common noun meaning " craftsman " or " artisan ", but gradually it came to mean " producer " and eventually " creator ".

Adjectives can be freely placed before or after the nouns they modify, though placing them before the noun is more common.

" Fenrir " appears twice in verse as a common noun for a " wolf " or " warg " in chapter 58 of Skáldskaparmál, and in chapter 56 of the book Háttatal.

In the most common case concord system, only the final word ( the noun ) in a phrase is marked for case.

Gnosis is the common Greek noun for knowledge ( in the nominative case γνῶσις f .).

Although the term Gulag originally referred to a government agency, the acronym acquired the qualities of a common noun, denoting: the Soviet system of prison-based, unfree labor — including specific labor, punishment, criminal, political, and transit camps for men, women, and children.

As a common noun, it simply connotes the country of one's origin.

Chrétien refers to his object not as " The Grail " but as " a grail " ( un graal ), showing the word was used, in its earliest literary context, as a common noun.

With the widespread use of the original acronym as a common noun, actual optical amplifiers have come to be referred to as " laser amplifiers ", notwithstanding the apparent redundancy in that designation.

The use of " minotaur " as a common noun to refer to members of a generic race of bull-headed creatures developed much later, in 20th-century fantasy genre fiction.

A common property of many Niger – Congo languages is the use of a noun class system.

This type of noun affixation is not very frequent in English, but quite common in languages which have the true grammatical gender, including most of the Indo-European family, to which English belongs.

* ( ii ) The more common meaning of classical Latin pāgānus is " civilian, non-militant " ( adjective and noun ).

Interestingly, the back-formed verb to quisle has since given rise to a much-less common, and malformed, version of the noun: quisler.

The term radar has since entered English and other languages as the common noun radar, losing all capitalization.

* rima pobre ( poor rhyme ): rhyme between words of the same grammatical category ( e. g. noun with noun ) or between very common endings (- ão ,-ar );

The term existed shortly before it became the name of a religious movement, and thus occasionally it is used as a common noun and would describe any Christology ( i. e. understanding of Jesus Christ ) that denies the Trinity or believes that God is only one person.

In America, vegetable farms are in some regions known as truck farms ; " truck " is a noun for which its more common meaning overshadows its historically separate use as a term for " vegetables grown for market ".

Jews ceased to pronounce the name in the intertestamental period, replacing it with the common noun Elohim, “ the God ”, to demonstrate the universal sovereignty of Israel's deity over all others.

Historically, nigger is controversial in literature due to its usage as both a racist insult and a common noun.

Otherwise, Dagr appears as a common noun simply meaning " day " throughout Old Norse works.

* Dag or Dagr, the god of daytime in Norse mythology and a common Scandinavian first name

Highly specific local traditions in architecture and pottery emerged, and trade over long distances appears to have been common.

For example, given two image elements A and B, the most common compositing operation is to combine the images such that A appears in the foreground and B appears in the background.

All vertebrate brains share a common underlying form, which appears most clearly during early stages of embryonic development.

In the United States, dates are rarely written in purely numerical forms in formal writing, although they are very common elsewhere ; when numerical forms are used, the month appears first.

The ancestor of the class action was what modern observers call " group litigation ," which appears to have been quite common in medieval England from about 1200 onward.

In the Command & Conquer real-time strategy games, both the gameplay and storyline revolve heavily around the introduction to Earth of an extraterrestrial mutagen called Tiberium via meteor, which displays strikingly lifelike behaviours such as self-replication, evolution, and homeostasis, without undergoing anything like common carbon-based metabolic cycles, and which appears to be colonising the Earth, converting it into an environment unsuited to carbon-based biology.

The notion of elves thus appears similar to the animistic belief in spirits of nature and of the deceased, common to nearly all human religions ; this is also true for the Old Norse belief in dísir, fylgjur and vörðar (" follower " and " warden " spirits, respectively ).

The telling of stories appears to be a cultural universal, common to basic and complex societies alike.

It appears that sIBM and polymyositis share some common features, especially the initial sequence of immune system activation, however, polmyositis comes on over weeks or months, does not display the subsequent muscle degeneration and protein abnormalities as seen in IBM, and as well, polymyositis tends to respond well to treatments, IBM does not.

The former appears in discussions of theories of the emergence of Christianity, and both are used with a different sense from the one common today.

The alliance with the Burmese appears according to the chronicles to have continued after the expulsion of the Cholas and it was to Burma that Vijayabahu I turned for assistance in re-organizing the Sangha in Sri Lanka, thus underlining the connection between political ties and a common commitment to Buddhism.

In these uses, the nanometre appears to be supplanting the other common unit for atomic scale dimensions, the angstrom, which is equal to 0. 1 nanometre.

In Plutarch, following as he does the anti-democratic line common in elite sources, the fact that people might be recalled early appears to be another example of the inconsistency of majoritarianism that was characteristic of Athenian democracy.

These are usually illustrated with " paradoxes " in which an event appears different when observed from two different points of view, seeming to violate " common sense ".

The most common appearance of proverbs in Plautus appears to be at the end of a soliloquy.

The first reference to the chamber is in 1398, as the Sterred chambre ; the more common form of the name appears in 1422 as le Sterne-chamere.

The Galgo appears not only in hunting books but also in common Spanish expressions, as well as in Literature.

One of the most common inscriptional phrases on Latin epitaphs is Dis Manibus, abbreviated D. M, " for the Manes gods ," which appears even on some Christian tombstones.

* Restless legs syndrome appears to be a common overlapping clinical syndrome in patients with varicose veins and other chronic venous insufficiency.

Water appears in nature in all three common states of matter ( solid, liquid, and gas ) and may take many different forms on Earth: water vapor and clouds in the sky ; seawater in the oceans ; icebergs in the polar oceans ; glaciers and rivers in the mountains ; and the liquid in aquifers in the ground.

For example, the backbone is a common structure among all vertebrates such as fish, reptiles, and mammals, and the backbone also appears as one of the earliest structures laid out in all vertebrate embryos.

A common genetic abnormality in Africans, known as glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, appears to increase the risk.

These conditions ensure that external noise affects each leg of the differential line equally and thus appears as a common mode signal that is removed by the receiver.