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.
Stick-to-itiveness is a real word and a handy noun coined in 1884, meaning dogged perseverance.
Even in cases such as these there may well be a link between the noun and the adjective.
Well actually, this appears to be three rules, one noun and an adjective.
One brand in particular has carried out this entrepreneurial focus so well that today it is both a noun and a verb .
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.
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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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 subject of time is also a common theme, with "year" being the third most common noun, "day" in fifth place and "week" at 17.
To help with the graphics part, Code for America teamed up with the Noun Project, an open-source icon repository, and solicited the help of activists and designers in major cities across the country.
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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.
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").
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.
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