but if drinking is a gerundial noun modifying water and without drinking water is equivalent to without water for drinking, there will be stronger stress on drinking than on water.

In English the noun alpha is used as a synonym for " beginning ", or " first " ( in a series ), reflecting its Greek roots.

The noun " purgatorium " ( Latin: place of cleansing ) is used for the first time to describe a state of painful purification of the saved after life.

Etymologically, the name is derived from the Greek " Αλέξανδρος " ( Aléxandros ), meaning " defending men " or " protector of men ", a compound of the verb " ἀλέξω " ( alexō ), " to ward off, to avert, to defend " and the noun " ἀνδρός " ( andros ), genitive of " ἀνήρ " ( anēr ), " man ".

The earliest attested form of the name is the Mycenaean Greek feminine noun a-re-ka-sa-da-ra ( transliterated as Alexandra ), written in Linear B syllabic script.

A person who participates in archery is typically known as an " archer " or " bowman ", and one who is fond of or an expert at archery can be referred to as a " toxophilite ".< ref > The noun " toxophilite ", meaning " a lover or devotee of archery, an archer ", is derived from Toxophilus by Roger Ascham —" imaginary proper name invented by Ascham, and hence title of his book ( 1545 ), intended to mean ' lover of the bow '.

Walter Burkert notes that " Ares is apparently an ancient abstract noun meaning throng of battle, war.

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

The accusative case ( abbreviated ) of a noun is the grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb.

It is a noun that is having something done to it, usually joined ( such as in Latin ) with the nominative case, making it an indirect object.

In the sentence I see the car, the noun phrase the car is the direct object of the verb " see ".

If this article / noun pair is used as the object of a verb, it ( usually ) changes to the accusative case, which entails an article shift in German – Ich sehe den Wagen.

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.

This case is also used for nouns in several other senses, e. g., where the action occurs " because of " or " without " a certain noun ; nouns indicating distance or direction.

Etymologically, the name is a compound of the Greek verb ἀλέξειν ( alexein ) " to defend " and the noun ἀνδρός ( andros ), genitive of ἀνήρ ( anēr ) " man ".

There is a noun use in US English, meaning " a chemical agent used in lethal injections "?

" If this is not an error for " ANaesthetic ", then it needs to be added as a noun sense to Wikipedia / Wiktionary?

" An abstraction " is the product of this process – a concept that acts as a super-categorical noun for all subordinate concepts, and connects any related concepts as a group, field, or category.

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.

The noun " hypocoristicon " seems to be rarely used in English.

In the Hebrew Bible, the noun teshuva occurs rarely.

Rather more rarely the transfer of the-n-from the article to the noun, as in newt and ( obsolete ) nuncle ( the latter from the respectful term of address mine uncle, and it is well to remember that not long ago a / an shared the alternation with the very common words my / mine, thy / thine ).

The noun " antisovietism " was rarely used and the noun " antisovietist " (, antisovetčik ) was used in a derogatory sense.

The word can be used as both a noun and an adjective.

In some other languages, such as Beja and Ket, the copula takes the form of suffixes that attach to a noun but are distinct from the person agreement markers used on predicative verbs.

Rújiào and Kǒngjiào contain the Chinese character jiào, the noun " teach ", used in such as terms as " education ", or " educator ".

" Ceramic " may be used as an adjective describing a material, product or process ; or as a singular noun, or, more commonly, as a plural noun, " ceramics ".

* The possessive marker, at least when used to mark an entire noun phrase:

The dative case ( abbreviated, or sometimes when it is a core argument ) is a grammatical case generally used to indicate the noun to which something is given, as in " George gave Jamie a drink ".

Diacritic is primarily an adjective, though sometimes used as a noun, whereas diacritical is always and only an adjective.

Eucharist: the Greek noun εὐχαριστία ( eucharistia ), meaning " thanksgiving ", is not used in the New Testament as a name for the rite ; however, the related verb is found in New Testament texts concerning the Last Supper, including the earliest:

It is related to the Greek noun Ἐκκλησία ( originally a secular gathering, although later used primarily of religious gatherings, hence its New Testament meaning of " church ").

Bosworth-Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary defines the noun unræd in various ways, though it seems always to have been used pejoratively.

That is, changing verbal kombi ( to comb ) to a noun simply creates the name for the action ; for the name of the tool, the suffix-ilo is used, which derives words for instruments from verbal roots: kombilo ( a comb ).

Often, the word is used as a noun to describe a natively French-speaking person.

Fart can be used as a noun or a verb.

The adjective feudal was coined in the 17th century, and the noun feudalism, often used in a political and propaganda context, was not coined until the 19th century.

The word ' franchise ' is of Anglo-French derivation-from franc-meaning free, and is used both as a noun and as a ( transitive ) verb.

Graffiti ( singular: graffito ; the plural is used as a mass noun ) is writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place.

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

The noun license ( American English ) or licence ( British English, Indian English, Canadian English, Australian English, New Zealand English ) refers to that permission as well as to the document recording that permission.

Instead of capitalizing " American ", for example, the dictionary had labels next to the entries reading cap ( for the noun ) and usu cap ( for the adjective ).

In both British and American English, stock is the collective noun for one hundred shares as shares were usually traded in stocks on Stock Exchanges.

The word hoodoo first was documented in American English in 1875 and was listed as a noun or a transitive verb.

The Online Etymology Dictionary entry for jinx states that the word was first used, as a noun, in American English in 1911.

The dictionary records standard Australian English spelling, which is closer to British and Canadian spelling than American spelling, with spellings like colour, centre, defence and practice / practise ( noun / verb ).

US American ( for the noun ) and US-American ( when used as a compound modifier preceding a noun ) is another option, and is a common demonym in German ( US-Amerikaner ).

Preppy is both an American adjective and an American noun, while prep is only an American noun, traditionally used in relation to Northeastern private university-preparatory schools and denotes a person seen as characteristic of an attendee of these schools.

) It is used either as a verb or noun used in American sports to refer to winning a third championship in a row.

The adjectival-form, kooky, was apparently coined as part of American teen-ager ( or beatnik ) slang, which derives from the pejorative meaning of the noun cuckoo.

The American Heritage Dictionary traces the passage of the words bunk ( noun ), debunk ( verb ) and debunker ( noun ) into American English in 1923 as a belated outgrowth of " bunkum ", of which the first recorded use was in 1828, apparently related to a poorly received " speech for Buncombe " given by North Carolina representative Felix Walker during the 16th United States Congress ( 1819 – 1821 ).

However, in American English the-ess suffix is only marginally morphologically productive, and the-ette suffix can indicate a feminine version of a noun without a change in size ( though many such words in-ette were intended to be jocular when they were first coined ).

The < cite > American Heritage College Dictionary </ cite > notes " One normally would expect the agent noun babysitter with its-er suffix to come from the verb baby-sit, as diver comes from dive, but in fact babysitter is first recorded in 1937, ten years earlier than the first appearance of baby-sit.