Sentence examples for define the noun from inspiring English sources

I would define the noun, confabulation, as "a jocular description of a pretentious talkfest".

He defined the noun as "the camp followers who have developed the skills of freeloading and gate-crashing to a fine art".

The American Heritage College Dictionary, for example, defines the noun "Democratic Party" as "One of the two major US political parties, owing its origin to a split in the Democratic-Republican PAndrew Jacksonrew Jackson in 1828".

It is probably akin to the Sanskrit urja, "sap, strength," according to Merriam-Webster, which defines the noun as "an explosive discharge of neuromuscular tensions at the height of sexual arousal that is usually accompanied by the ejaculation of semen in the male and by vaginal contractions in the female".

In "Burgess Unabridged: A New Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed" (1914), he defined the noun as "fulsome praise; a sound like a publisher" and the verb — Jacobs may be interested to know — as "to flatter from interested motives; to compliment oneself".

In 1611, a French-English dictionary was published by Randle Cotgrave who defined the noun crosse as "the crooked staff wherewith boys play at cricket".

The Oxford Dictionary defines the noun 'patient' as 'a person receiving or registered to receive medical treatment'.

To identify the subject from the sentence, we need to identify a noun phrase consisting of nouns and adjectives, which define the various properties of the noun.

Meanwhile, which should merely introduce some extra information that is not crucial to defining the preceding noun.

An 1819 history averred that Zombi is the name for an Angolan diety; in 1872, the early student of Americanisms Maximilian Schele de Vere defined the proper noun as "a phantom or a ghost, not infrequently heard in the Southern States in nurseries and among the servants" and speculated that "the word is a Creole corruption of the Spanish sombra".

Ms Nicholson won the competition on 31 October with the word "obeisant", an adjective incorrectly defined as the noun "respect".