enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. American English vocabulary - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English_vocabulary

    American English has always shown a marked tendency to use nouns as verbs. [13] Examples of verbed nouns are interview, advocate, vacuum, lobby, pressure, rear-end, transition, feature, profile, spearhead, skyrocket, showcase, service (as a car), corner, torch, exit (as in "exit the lobby"), factor (in mathematics), gun ("shoot"), author (which disappeared in English around 1630 and was ...

  3. Glossary - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary

    A Glossary of Islamic Legal Terminology. A glossary (from Ancient Greek: γλῶσσα, glossa; language, speech, wording), also known as a vocabulary or clavis, is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms.

  4. Vocabulary - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocabulary

    A vocabulary (also known as a lexicon) is a set of words, typically the set in a language or the set known to an individual. The word vocabulary originated from the Latin vocabulum, meaning "a word, name". It forms an essential component of language and communication, helping convey thoughts, ideas, emotions, and information.

  5. Glossary of language education terms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_language...

    Passive vocabulary (also called receptive vocabulary) Vocabulary that students have heard and can understand, but do not necessarily use when they speak or write. Passive Opposite of active; the false assumption that the language skills of reading and listening do not involve students in doing anything but receiving information. Peer correction

  6. Wikipedia : Language learning centre/5000 most common words

    en.wikipedia.org/.../5000_most_common_words

    These are 1100 of the most common words in American English in order of usage. This can be a particularly useful list when starting to learn a new language and will help prioritise creating sentences using the words in other languages to ensure that you develop your core quickly.

  7. Category:Words and phrases - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Words_and_phrases

    Words and phrases with no direct English translation (41 P) This page was last edited on 1 July 2023, at 21:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  8. 21 phrases you've been saying wrong your entire life - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/2016-06-09-21-phrases-you-ve...

    We've listed the most commonly mispronounced words and sayings in the English language. While you may think you're a syntax expert, you'd be surprised how many of these you've actually been saying ...

  9. Wikipedia:Glossary - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Glossary

    The § base name of an article plus any disambiguators. For example, the full title of the article at top (clothing) is top (clothing), consisting of the base name top and the disambiguator (clothing). If there are no disambiguators, the full title is identical to the base name.