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NOUN [2 records]

Record 1 2012-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vocabulary of the Terminology Bank
DEF

A parameter used to make the distinction between a designation used as a noun and a homograph belonging to another grammatical category.

OBS

"Variable" is an example of a designation that can have the "noun" parameter.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire de la Banque de terminologie
DEF

Paramètre utilisé pour distinguer une désignation à valeur nominale d'un homographe de nature grammaticale différente.

OBS

«Variable» est un exemple de désignation pouvant avoir le paramètre «nom».

Spanish

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Record 2 2008-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lexicology, Lexicography, Terminology
DEF

A word that is the name of a subject of discourse (as a person, animal, plant, place, thing, substance, quality, idea, action, or state) and that in languages with grammatical number, case and gender is inflected for number and case but has inherent gender.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lexicologie, lexicographie et terminologie
DEF

Mot qui désigne soit une espèce ou un représentant de l'espèce, soit un individu particulier [...] et qui assure, dans la proposition, des fonctions syntaxiques spécifiques.

Spanish

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