From this analysis emerge three main semantic factors underpinning the neural representation of nouns naming physical objects, which we label manipulation, shelter, and eating.
environment |en'vīr nm nt| noun: The physical space occupied by a group or individual, including its design, aesthetic, setup, displays, artifacts, and furnishings.
"Beauty," as a noun meaning "physical attractiveness," comes from the early fourteenth century Anglo-French beute, and as a word connoting "a beautiful woman" it originates later in the century.
A central issue addressed here concerns the underlying semantic dimensions of representation of concrete nouns and the physical objects to which they refer.
Adjectives are lexical words used to modify nouns and refer to physical and concrete properties as well as abstract properties denoted by nouns.
Gombrowicz's penchant for depicting mental states through physical correlatives, and for twisting concrete nouns into verb forms, makes for an intense condensation of language and some startling syntactical distortions.
Aloneness is a noun that describes the physical state of having no one else (or no friends) present.
The systems and tools that facilitated this study are currently in use for building information extraction applications for other kinds of clinical reports with noun phrases, among others: electrocardiography, physical examination, or lung function tests.
Nouns denoting the old fashioned "people, places and things", especially physical things you can stub your toe on, are better than "metaconcept" nouns like event, phenomenon, level and observation.
The word 'token' is a relation noun for a relation certain macroscopic physical objects bear to certain abstract objects.
The earliest modern citations for this noun use of the verb disconnect were nonmetaphoric, purely physical: "Most of our citations have to do with phone-company usage," says James Rader, etymologist for Random House II.
