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Hellenic orogeny (421 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Hellenic orogeny is a collective noun referring to multiple mountain building events that shaped the topography of the southern margin of Eurasia

Goose (2,293 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

referring to a male). Young birds before fledging are called goslings. The collective noun for a group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; when in flight, they

Gopnik (710 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

man (or a woman, a gopnitsa) of urban working-class background. The collective noun is gopota (Russian: гопота). The subculture of gopota has its roots

Silovik (911 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

into politics from these organisations. Siloviki is also used as a collective noun to designate all troops and officers of all law enforcement agencies

Winter's law (593 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

*stagas < PIE *stógos, OCS voda "water" < PBS *wadō < PIE *wodṓr (collective noun formed from PIE *wódr̥). Matasović adjusted Winter's law in 1994 to

Shrubbery (1,903 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as well as his landscape vistas in the parks. Shrubbery is also the collective noun for shrubs in other contexts, sometimes used for shrubland, a type

Femoral vessel (332 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lymphatic vessels found in the thigh aren’t usually included in this collective noun. As the blood vessels pass along the thigh, they branch, with their

Sumur (Levant) (447 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Sumur (Biblical Hebrew: צְמָרִי‎ [collective noun denoting the city inhabitants]; Egyptian: Smr; Akkadian: Sumuru; Assyrian: Simirra) was a Phoenician

Mazices (412 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1st century AD, Lucan uses Mazax, the singular form of Mazaces, as a collective noun for the people. In the 3rd century, the Chronicle of Pseudo-Hippolytus

Agaric (339 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Agaricales and some (mostly older) sources use "agarics" as the colloquial collective noun for the Agaricales. Contemporary sources now tend to use the term euagarics

Sokgot (310 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sokgot (속곳) is a collective noun for various types of traditional Korean undergarments. They were worn as part of a hanbok before the import of Western-style

Pancake sentence (471 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

speakers saying "the team have arrived", agreeing semantically to the collective noun team. The phrase appears to have been coined by Hans-Olav Enger in

Character (symbol) (865 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

particular dialect, or of a characteristic mark of an individual. The collective noun χαρακτηριστικά "characteristics" appears later, in Dionysius Halicarnassensis

Logaršče (225 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

spellings. The name Logaršče is either a syncopation of *Logarišče, a collective noun derived from logar 'forest owner', referring to the local environment

Athletic nickname (865 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an animal as its athletic nickname, usually in the plural or as a collective noun for a group of that animal, then typically, the school has that animal

Tamil honorifics (2,148 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

honorific. கார் (Kār) is a singular honorific suffix to refer to a single collective noun. காரர் (Kārar) is a higher form of கார் (Kār). For example, கடைக்கார்

Alexandrian Pleiad (243 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

century (see "La Pléiade"). In modern times, "pleiad" is also used as a collective noun for a small group of brilliant or eminent persons. The Oxford Classical

Campsea Ashe (1,322 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is not ēg at all, but that the name is camp-esce, where *esce is a collective noun for a group of ash trees. Historically, Campsey is the more correct

Kristopher Grunert (760 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

2008 City: My Last 20 Polaroids / Jacana Gallery / Vancouver 2018 Collective Noun / Ian Tan Gallery / Capture Photography Festival 2017 Imagenation /

The devil is in the details (638 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

where the word detail without an s can be used as both a singular and collective noun. When referring to the finer points of legislation, the former US House

Koli people (2,330 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

people, while British colonial studies considered it to be a vague collective noun for varied communities whose sole common feature was that they were

Hamster (3,751 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"hamster"); or of Persian origin (cf. Avestan: hamaēstar "oppressor"). The collective noun for a group of hamsters is "horde". In German, the verb hamstern is

Lloegyr (1,284 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ranko Matasović prefers to see Lloegr as coming from a Brittonic collective noun *Lāikor meaning ‘warriors’, the root of which he proposes gave Old

Data (word) (930 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

style guide. The Associated Press style guide classifies data as a collective noun that takes the singular when treated as a unit but the plural when

Shqiptar (2,181 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

out from the north to the south, and Shqipni/Shqipëri is probably a collective noun, following the common pattern of Arbëni, Arbëri." Skutsch 2013, p. 138

Mambila people (2,028 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to themselves as 'Norr' (the people) while in Cameroon there is a collective noun 'Ba' that is used in the unmarked sense to refer to the Mambilla, and

Făgăraș (1,931 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Iordan, the name of the town is a Romanian diminutive of a hypothetical collective noun *făgar ("beech forest"), presumably derived from fag, "beech tree"

Rathwa (1,553 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

people, whilst British colonial studies considered it to be a vague collective noun for varied communities whose sole common feature was that they were

Fruit preserves (3,857 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

generic term is 'jam'. The singular preserve or conserve is used as a collective noun for high fruit content jam, often for marketing purposes. Additionally

Seed of the woman (2,364 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

American Bible has "they", explaining in a footnote that "offspring" is a collective noun, referring to "all the descendants of the woman". Many scholars connect

Chester Boughton Hall Cricket Club (1,268 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

emergence of a new generation of Joneses. The local paper found that the collective noun for the clan should be a plague! Bill, Leslie, Brian and Bruce all

Woodlouse (3,559 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

roll up into a ball. Other names compare the woodlouse to a pig. The collective noun is a quabble of woodlice. Common names include: armadillo bug boat-builder

Signage (3,557 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

'signage' appears to have come into use in the 20th century as a collective noun used to describe a class of signs, especially advertising and promotional

Comet dust (4,001 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

topic in Solar System and exoplanet research. At best, "dust" is a collective noun for the non-gas portion of the coma and tail(s). At worst, the term

Jeremy Beadle (2,565 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Kendell and Richard Whittington-Egan. In his foreword, Beadle coined the collective noun to describe those interested in the subject "a speculation of Ripperologists"

Iteration mark (2,153 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

per se, some kanji can be reduplicated to indicate plurality (as a collective noun, not many individuals). This differs from Chinese, which normally repeats

Bandial language (1,752 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ɲɪ- ~ ɲʊ- Abstract nouns ba- Abstract nouns, collective nouns fa- Collective noun, mass nouns ma- Abstract nouns ɟa- Irregular infinitive, mass nouns

Free World (2,824 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

international community, which, he argued, "has become the euphemistic collective noun (replacing "the Free World") to give global legitimacy to actions reflecting

Man-at-arms (3,978 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Old French: gen d'armes, plural gens d'armes or gendarmerie as a collective noun, was the direct equivalent of the English 'man-at-arms'. Originally

Grey literature (3,290 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

accessibility.[citation needed] The term grey literature acts as a collective noun to refer to a large number of publications types produced by organizations

Russian declension (5,685 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

стру́пья стул (m) – chair сту́лья сук (m) – branch су́чья (branches, as a collective noun) суки́ (several individual branches) ши́ло (m) – awl ши́лья шу́рин

Psycholinguistics (5,066 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

"The Structure of the Chinese Language and Ontological Insights: A Collective-Noun Hypothesis". Philosophy East and West. 49 (1): 45–62. doi:10.2307/1400116

Tamil grammar (3,010 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a beginning-u during agglutination. māṇavarkaḷ students māṇavarkaḷ collective noun n/a, masculine, often used with gender-neutral connotation, n/a nominative

Mourne Mountains (2,906 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

name of this mountainous territory was Bairrche, which is likely a collective noun derived from the Irish barr, meaning 'top, peak'. This survives in

Agreement (linguistics) (4,152 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

used in the crude form and are singular when used with a pair of. A collective noun is singular when thought of as a unit and plural when the individuals

Ubuntu philosophy (5,756 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of an abstract quality. The sense "mankind" is taken by the class 7 collective noun isintu. Christian B. N. Gade (2011). "The Historical Development of

List of orogenies (2,008 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

during the Jurassic-Cretaceous to Miocene Period Hellenic orogeny – Collective Noun – In Greece and the Aegean area, during Eocene through Miocene Periods

The Children Act (novel) (1,962 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

I found myself at dinner with a handful of judges – a bench is the collective noun. They were talking shop, and I was politely resisting the urge to take

Ontological commitment (2,866 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

such as G, to the group of people under consideration). Formally, collective noun forms such as “a group of people” are represented by second-order variables

Jinn (9,580 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

disapprove of folkloric jinn-beliefs common in the past. Jinn is an Arabic collective noun deriving from the Semitic root JNN (Arabic: جَنّ / جُنّ, jann), whose

Breton grammar (2,098 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

which in Breton is marked with the feminine suffix -enn. While the collective noun gwez, for instance, means "trees (collectively)", the singulative gwezenn

Serbo-Croatian grammar (6,072 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

things do not have plural forms, but their plurality is marked with a collective noun formed with -ād (téle, n. sg. singulare tantum → tȅlād, f. sg. singulare

Charterhouse School (4,714 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Brooke Hall The teaching and support staff’s Common Room. Also the collective noun for the teachers. BTT The Ben Travers Theatre on Queen’s Drive, opened

Compagnie d'ordonnance (1,620 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

man-at-arms (gen d'armes in French, plural gens d'armes or gendarmerie as a collective noun). This man was supported by a squire (ecuyer or coutillier), usually

Neural processing unit (4,854 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

eventually adopted Nvidia's self-assigned term, "the GPU", as the collective noun for "graphics accelerators", which had taken many forms before settling

Gender in English (4,108 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

particular noun used in the antecedent. (When the antecedent is a collective noun, such as family or team, and the pronoun refers to the members of the

Jess Wade (3,612 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

from the original on 25 November 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2017. "A Collective Noun for Science #SciFoo 2017 – Digital Science". Digital-science.com. 25

Twitchers' vocabulary (1,456 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an abbreviation that stands for "many observers," often used as a collective noun Mega or megatick or meguh a very rare bird Nemesis (or nemesis bird)

Chariot (8,286 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Indo-Iranian substantivisations. This adjective is in turn derived from the collective noun *rot-eh₂- "wheels", continued in Latin rota, which belongs to the noun

Hertford College, Oxford (6,199 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lodge and is the fourth of his lineage, collectively Simpkins, the collective noun for Hertford College cats; the original was called Simpkin and was

Slate Islands, Scotland (3,231 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

commercial value. It therefore seems reasonable to conclude that this collective noun includes the commercially quarried Easdale, Belnahua, Luing and Seil

Two-up (2,158 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Terminology Term Meaning School The collective noun for a group of gamblers playing two-up. Ring The area designated for the spinner to spin the coins

Literary Welsh morphology (4,019 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

suffix -yn (for masculine nouns) or -en (for feminine nouns) to the collective noun. Most nouns which belong in this system are frequently found in groups

Arameans (9,219 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

although possibly with different meanings (e.g. as a region, as a collective noun for the people; or another appellation of the Damascus-centered polity)

Colloquial Welsh morphology (4,810 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

suffix -yn (for masculine nouns) or -en (for feminine nouns) to the collective noun. Most nouns which belong in this system are frequently found in groups

History of Buddhism in India (9,754 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

bauddha since the latter is not attested at Ajanta. In fact, as a collective noun, bauddha is an outsider's term. The bauddha did not call themselves

Buddhism (27,815 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

bauddha since the latter is not attested at Ajanta. In fact, as a collective noun, bauddha is an outsider's term. The bauddha did not call themselves

Volleyball jargon (5,898 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of "Refs", but one that is socially accepted by the players Refs : Collective noun for those officiating at a volleyball event - including referees and

Appalachian English (7,073 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

gets into a fight sometimes." "A boy and his daddy was a-huntin'." Collective noun phrases: "Some people makes it from fat off a pig." "People's not concerned

Domestic rabbit (7,760 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Archived from the original on 2024-03-06. Retrieved 2024-01-02. "The Collective Noun Page". Archived from the original on 1 February 2008. Retrieved 30

Name of the Spanish language (4,710 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

nation. The noun used for a person from Spain is Spaniard, with the collective noun the Spanish. The term Castilian is much less widespread amongst English

Scottish island names (6,444 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Aru, Arann, Arran Great Cumbrae Magnancia Kumreyar The Norse is a collective noun for both Cumbraes Little Cumbrae Anas Ailsa Craig Cunis Rathlin

Lumières (6,583 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Modernity Rationalism Universalism In French, the term Lumières (as a collective noun) is used to designate the free-thinkers, writers and philosophers who

Islamic modernism (10,851 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

epithets as well. In 1905, he spoke of the Salafis (al-salafiyya) as a collective noun, in contradistinction with the Ash'aris (al-asha'ira). Although he

Islamization of Albania (9,555 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

out from the north to the south, and Shqipni/Shqipëri is probably a collective noun, following the common pattern of Arbëni, Arbëri. The change happened

Hanbok (13,673 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

style of dress, sewing method, embroidery and so on. Sokgot (속곳) is a collective noun for various types of traditional Korean undergarments. They were worn

Canadian Gaelic (6,527 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

-annan, where the -nn- sequence is pronounced as [w]. poidhle noun collective noun, e.g. "poidhle airgid" ("a lot of money"), or "poidhle de dhaoine"

English plurals (7,779 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

paparazzo paparazzi paparazzi spaghetto spaghetti spaghetti (mass noun) talib taliban taliban (collective noun) zucchino zucchini (U.S. English) zucchinis

Heideggerian terminology (7,562 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

un-translatable term, Heidegger's equipment can be thought of as a collective noun, so that it is never appropriate to call something 'an equipment'.

The Dunciad (10,155 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of coal to the others who participate. "The Weekly Journals" was a collective noun, referring to London Journal, Mist's Journal, British Journal, Daily

Albanians (23,717 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

out from the north to the south, and Shqipni/Shqipëri is probably a collective noun, following the common pattern of Arbëni, Arbëri. The change happened

Turco-Albanian (7,600 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

out from the north to the south, and Shqipni/Shqipëri is probably a collective noun, following the common pattern of Arbëni, Arbëri. The change happened

Witches (Discworld) (9,231 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

all get on each other's nerves. (It is also mentioned that the true collective noun for a group of witches is not "coven", but "argument".) Magrat Garlick

Homelessness (26,843 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

reporters should use person-first language to "avoid the dehumanizing collective noun the homeless, instead using constructions like homeless people, people

Harold Cole (2,909 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Room. New York: Doubleday & Company. p. 73. Gestapo is used here as a collective noun for the various German security organizations. Adamson, Iain (1966)

List of British regional nicknames (6,503 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

used to describe anyone from Bolton and surrounding area), Noblot (collective noun, anagram for Bolton) Bo'ness Bo'neds (pejorative) Bootle Bootlickers

Independent minyan (3,675 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"independent minyan phenomenon" or simply to "independent minyanim" without a collective noun, because independent minyanim are not affiliated with a set of central

Origin of the Albanians (20,828 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

out from the north to the south, and Shqipni/Shqipëri is probably a collective noun, following the common pattern of Arbëni, Arbëri." Cole 2011, p. 15:

Rashid Rida (21,833 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

impurities and Western influences." In 1905 he spoke of the Salafis as a collective noun, theologically distinct from the Ash'aris, and considered Wahhabis

Passage of Humaitá (11,203 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Quoted verbatim in The Times, London, 7 April 1868, page 5. Sic (collective noun). Congressional series of United States public documents Volume 1365

Glossary of computer science (23,802 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

running operations, often without direct input from the user. The collective noun application software refers to all applications collectively. array

Names of the Albanians and Albania (8,386 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

out from the north to the south, and Shqipni/Shqipëri is probably a collective noun, following the common pattern of Arbëni, Arbëri. The change happened

Tickle v Giggle (2,070 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

platform for cisgender women. The name, Giggle, is described as a collective noun for women, with the app presented as catering only to cisgender women

Sall Grover (2,687 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

platform for cisgender women. The name, Giggle, is described as a collective noun for women, with the app presented as catering only to cisgender women

Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee (2,430 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Animal Kingdom: select an animal from the board, and then spell the collective noun used to refer a group of them. Customs: Guests spell items prohibited

Ojibwe religion (11,620 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

confederation called the Three Fires. The term Ojibwe was adopted as a collective noun in the nineteenth century, and probably derives from the Algonquian