As a noun, mongo is sanitation slang for treasure salvaged from trash.
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One brand in particular has carried out this entrepreneurial focus so well that today it is both a noun and a verb .
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.
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.
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.
The second generation now is the Internet as a noun.
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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.
They considered whether what we call prepositions occur before or after a noun ("in the boat" versus "the boat in") and how the word order of subject and object work out in either case ("I put the dog in the boat" versus "I the dog put the canoe in").
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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But then, so too, companies cannot be summarized with a single noun either.
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No longer a descriptive noun, "bubble" has become the default term for lazy writers seeking to explain what they cannot.
The Aubusson tapestries are a gold standard throughout the world, to the extent that Aubusson has become a common noun in some languages.
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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By 20 he was a superstar, a common enough noun these days in the entertainment lexicon, but rare then.
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.
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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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.
The cabin seems a little ADJECTIVE, considering the out-of-place ADJECTIVE NOUN, but our heroes ignore it.
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.
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