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单词 nominalize
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Definition of nominalize in English:

nominalize

(British nominalise)
verb ˈnɒmɪn(ə)lʌɪzˈnɑmənəˌlaɪz
[with object]Grammar
  • Form (a noun) from a verb or adjective, e.g. output, truth, from put out, true.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The second construes the process as a thing - the verb has been nominalized by means of the ing suffix - consequently, the temporal aspect of the process has been backgrounded.
    • Perhaps by analogy with the compounds ‘schoolmate,’ ‘messmate,’ ‘playmate’, Edmund is treating the nominalised adjective as a compound noun.
    • More or less the same can be said of null subjects in controlled complements in Romanian and in embedded nominalized clauses in Imbabura Quechua.
    • This might even be in some sense true, if the difference in noun/verb balance is mainly due to expressing propositions less often in nominalized form.
    • Some items in the last set might be plural nominalized obsoletes rather than verbs, but the ones I checked were third-person singular verbs.

Derivatives

  • nominalization

  • noun nɒmɪn(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n
    Grammar
    • The grammatical analysis of both codes was based on passive constructions, mode, nominalization, lexical choice, and moderators.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • And believe it or not, ‘reveal’ as a nominalization is pretty old, in fact archaic.
      • You might be able to infer from such a system, for instance, that ‘assignments’ is the plural form of the nominalization of the verb ‘assign’.
      • Here, the nominalization is of ‘commit’ into ‘commission.’
      • The word ‘shooting’ here is a nominalization - a noun derived from a verb root.
 
 

Definition of nominalize in US English:

nominalize

(British nominalise)
verbˈnɑmənəˌlaɪzˈnämənəˌlīz
[with object]Grammar
  • Convert (a word or phrase, as a verb or adjective) into a noun, for example, output from put out; the poor from poor.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The second construes the process as a thing - the verb has been nominalized by means of the ing suffix - consequently, the temporal aspect of the process has been backgrounded.
    • This might even be in some sense true, if the difference in noun/verb balance is mainly due to expressing propositions less often in nominalized form.
    • Some items in the last set might be plural nominalized obsoletes rather than verbs, but the ones I checked were third-person singular verbs.
    • More or less the same can be said of null subjects in controlled complements in Romanian and in embedded nominalized clauses in Imbabura Quechua.
    • Perhaps by analogy with the compounds ‘schoolmate,’ ‘messmate,’ ‘playmate’, Edmund is treating the nominalised adjective as a compound noun.
 
 
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