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Question: how does a noun meaning "receptacle for liquid" and later "mechanized cavalry" come to be a verb meaning "to fail spectacularly"?
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When did disconnect, a noun for a cutoff of slow payers, make a connection with a meaning of "breakdown of communication between people or policies"?
Is foursquare doing a kleenex and becoming a noun?
A judge noted for his pungently precise prose doesn't modify a noun with a closely related adjective without thinking it through.
See, for example, how "what it is" functions as an object in "I know what it is". Here it's the object of the verb "know". So the clause is doing the same job a noun could do: "I know Kelly". You won't be surprised to learn these are called noun clauses.
His aides said that evening that all he needed to do was string a noun, a verb and a few statistics together to address any lingering concerns about his competence and cement his victory.
To explain why we do something using a noun, we use for.
When Did Lululemon Become a Noun Synonymous With Leggings?
In turn, the target sentences of both conditions do not convey a noun focus.
As the English "charm" does, this noun kêlêsis can mean "appeal" but also something explicitly magical, a spell or conjuration.
Does this noun exist?
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