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concrete noun

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A noun that denotes something tangible or material, such as a person or place.

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Just, M. A., Cherkassky, V. L., Aryal, S. & Mitchell, T. M. A neurosemantic theory of concrete noun representation based on the underlying brain codes.

In Clarinda, he had yearned for better in a formless way, desire like a gray milk churn; in fact, he'd been so poor that he couldn't settle on one concrete noun to wish for: A real father?

We define design broadly as both a verb and a noun, an active verb that emphasizes cross-disciplinary, synthesizing process and a concrete noun that promotes aspirational, provocative well-researched and plausible solutions.

There was some muttering about 'decoration' as the definition for GRADINI, and I can't now recall why I didn't pluralize it, though it must be said that as both an abstract and a concrete noun the singular form can easily stand for more than one actual decorations.

The present study was designed to obtain validating evidence by using abstract and concrete noun primes in a similar reading task on the assumption that if the right hemisphere was contributing to the task there would be demonstrable differences between the visual fields in processing targets primed by abstract nouns.

In semantic terminology, the singular term denoting the metallic element is correlated, not with a general term in adjectival form, but with a concrete noun or substantive: there is gold in the hills, much as there are tigers in the woods.

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You use articles when you're referring to concrete objects, because articles precede concrete nouns.

Sudre, G. et al. Tracking neural coding of perceptual and semantic features of concrete nouns.

Prepositions, articles and the like are almost by definition grammatical, while ordinary concrete nouns and verbs (tree, run) aren't.

As a writer, Remnick practices a classic journalistic style: concrete nouns, active verbs, graceful sentences, solid paragraphs, subtle transitions.

There are noun suffixes that form different kinds of nouns (concrete nouns, diminutives, abstract nouns, and so on), particles placed after nouns indicating relationships in time and space, and verb particles for modes and aspects.

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