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Function: noun - con·tra·cep·tive /-sep-tiv/ adjective or noun

:I would hesitate to use the lower case, since it is a German noun. On the other hand, there is a not-uncommon distinction between "Internet"

* [[Noun class]]

...ust the clumsiness of the present sentence. I'm asking ''what is it''? A noun? An adjective? A position? Just the description of duties is not "a" sha

...raditional Latin plural because its original sense, ''poison'' is a [[mass noun]] like the English word ''furniture'', and, as pointed out above, English u

...room for' is the same as 'make space for'. Here 'room' is a non countable noun and so has no 's' on the end. A similar example would be, "There was lots o

...h they say is neuter plural, not feminine singular as I supposed (with the noun τεχνη understood). So my remark about dialects wouldn't apply. [[User:

...ccolade to the person (Clinton) rather than simply qualifying the specific noun (campaigner). I'd be happy with a specific superlative (e.g. outstandingly

For a noun, the Oxford English Dictionary uses this meaning for distress, as applies t

...ísthmus, bôth, lôth''' or '''lôath, bréath, wrêath, déath, mòuth''' ''noun ...ap, séven, séptic, sêrial''' ''drama'', '''sŏurce, spécial, ûse''' ''noun'', '''ûsage, āsk, flāsk, tāsk, bāsk, désk, whísk, dúsk

...]], Macedonian is the only [[Slavic languages|Slavic language]] not to use noun cases (except for the [[vocative]]) and to have a definite article.

...to the Oxford English Dictionary, the verb 'to live' preceded usage of the noun 'life' by some 300 years." not because I don't find it interesting, it's th ...to the Oxford English Dictionary, the verb 'to live' preceded usage of the noun 'life' by some 300 years." not because I don't find it interesting, it's th

...min Franklin, in 1747, as a verb, and subsequently by him as adjective and noun: ...al senses ‘to load’ and ‘a load’): from Old French charger (verb), charge (noun), from late Latin carricare, carcare ‘to load,’ from Latin carrus ‘wh

...it *only* occurs in these wretched advertisements. To me, this thing, as a noun, is a "checkmark", although MW-11 defines "checkmark" as being definition # ...e = a one-off example (adjective), but it's a one-off = it's unique (not a noun). [[User:Ro Thorpe|Ro Thorpe]] 23:15, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

A collective noun that embraces all manner of cricket-related collectibles.<ref name="BWC694" As a noun, the pitch is the central playing area. As a verb, to pitch means to bowl t

# There is a distinction between the noun ceili, and the adjective.

...she was talking about clothing oneself. When she used 'dressing', it was a noun meaning 'stuffing'.

...rtant in that they are making no distinction between the adjective and the noun as being capitalized or not. *Both* of them are lower case. But, of course

: ''dúvida'' {{IPA|/ˈduvidɐ/}} "doubt" (noun) vs. ''duvida'' {{IPA|/duˈvidɐ/}} "he doubts"

...y dell-i-git or dell-a-gut or some mixture of those two when using it as a noun, with the stress a little on the first syl. As a verb I think I say delly-g