Stick-to-itiveness is a real word and a handy noun coined in 1884, meaning dogged perseverance.
Can the complexities of a human being really be summarized in a single noun?
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The cabin seems a little ADJECTIVE, considering the out-of-place ADJECTIVE NOUN, but our heroes ignore it.
Meanwhile, at a secret NOUN, PROFESSION (played by Amy Acker, Brad Whitford, and Richard Jenkins) VERB.
Each 'verb' had one small routine, knowing where any needed 'nouns' were on the noun stack.
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Six years after that incident, Noun is helping many of Phnom Penh's poorest children do just that.
Even in cases such as these there may well be a link between the noun and the adjective.
Noun: A person who has directly or indirectly positively impacted the lives of at least one billion people.
Noun: The practice of giving unfair preferential treatment to one person or group at the expense of another.
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Well actually, this appears to be three rules, one noun and an adjective.
But then, so too, companies cannot be summarized with a single noun either.
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By 20 he was a superstar, a common enough noun these days in the entertainment lexicon, but rare then.
No longer a descriptive noun, "bubble" has become the default term for lazy writers seeking to explain what they cannot.
As a noun, mongo is sanitation slang for treasure salvaged from trash.
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While the GROUP NOUN ADVERB try to VERB, both PERSONAL NOUNS VERB.
One brand in particular has carried out this entrepreneurial focus so well that today it is both a noun and a verb .
The Aubusson tapestries are a gold standard throughout the world, to the extent that Aubusson has become a common noun in some languages.
Panders, an underworld term that served as both verb and noun, were outfitted in dandy ties and jaunty hats, lurking in corners and alleys.
He says that with the previous REST-based API there were things like naming confusion, thanks to "digg" being both a verb and a noun.
What is significant is that, in ordinary usage, a noun and its adjective form may have meanings as disparate as any two unrelated words.
To simplify Britain's messy state pensions in a way that rewards responsibility (David Cameron's favourite abstract noun) and pays for itself would be impressive.
The subject of time is also a common theme, with "year" being the third most common noun, "day" in fifth place and "week" at 17.
You never want your trademark used generically, which is where the product and the name are synonymous, because then the mark becomes used as a noun.
Today, Noun provides 240 kids from the trash dump a free education, food, health services and an opportunity to be a child in a safe environment.
New Horizons for Learning's open learning community on the Internet is called the Building - more a verb than a noun, as it continues to grow daily.
By testing concepts on paper I came up with a 'noun' stack (operators like numbers and variable names) and 'verb' stack (every other element in the syntax chart).
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The second generation now is the Internet as a noun.
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Good proportions, clarity at a small scale and a certain indescribable universality, said Noun Project co-founder Edward Boatman, as he clicked through a presentation of some previously-prepared medical icons.
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Short for graphics interchange format, Gif has been around since the 80s but was this year's US champion because it gained traction as a verb, not just a noun.
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