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.
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.
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.
Each 'verb' had one small routine, knowing where any needed 'nouns' were on the noun stack.
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But then, so too, companies cannot be summarized with a single noun either.
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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 .
The Aubusson tapestries are a gold standard throughout the world, to the extent that Aubusson has become a common noun in some languages.
The cabin seems a little ADJECTIVE, considering the out-of-place ADJECTIVE NOUN, but our heroes ignore it.
Stick-to-itiveness is a real word and a handy noun coined in 1884, meaning dogged perseverance.
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.
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.
By 20 he was a superstar, a common enough noun these days in the entertainment lexicon, but rare then.
As a noun, mongo is sanitation slang for treasure salvaged from trash.
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Six years after that incident, Noun is helping many of Phnom Penh's poorest children do just that.
What is significant is that, in ordinary usage, a noun and its adjective form may have meanings as disparate as any two unrelated words.
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.
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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No longer a descriptive noun, "bubble" has become the default term for lazy writers seeking to explain what they cannot.
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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