identify. (transitive) To establish the identity of someone or something. (biology) To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism. (transitive) To equate or make the same; to unite or combine into one.

identifiability. (uncountable) The quality of being identifiable.

If something is identifiable, it means you can identify it — or know what it is. Put your name in your jacket so it is identifiable as yours. Identifiable can also mean known — if you’re trying to solve the energy crisis, you should come up with a plan that maximizes the all identifiable uses of alternative energy.

identify when you notice how much it looks like the word identity (a noun, meaning who or what something is). You can easily remember the meaning of identify, a verb, when you recognize that it’s just a way to express the act of establishing identity — in other words, saying who or what something is.

verb (used with object), i·den·ti·fied, i·den·ti·fy·ing. to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check. to serve as a means of identification for: His gruff voice quickly identified him.

Identify words that are a person, place, thing, or idea. In the sentence “She walked home,” “She” is the noun because she is a person. In “Portland is a cool city,” “Portland” is the noun because it is a place. In “The windows need to be open,” “windows” is the noun because it is a thing.

List of Nouns

Noun Type	Examples
Singular Nouns name one person, place, thing, or idea.	cat, sock, ship, hero, monkey, baby, match
Plural Nouns name more than one person, place, thing, or idea. They end with the letter -s.	cats, socks, ships, heroes, monkeys, babies, matches

Examples of a Common Noun

• People: mother, father, baby, child, toddler, teenager, grandmother, student, teacher, minister, businessperson, salesclerk, woman, man.
• Animals: lion, tiger, bear, dog, cat, alligator, cricket, bird, wolf.
• Things: table, truck, book, pencil, iPad, computer, coat, boots,

Types Of Nouns

• Common noun.
• Proper noun.
• Concrete noun.
• Abstract noun.
• Collective nouns.
• Count and mass nouns.

A noun is a word that names something, such as a person, place, thing, or idea. In a sentence, nouns can play the role of subject, direct object, indirect object, subject complement, object complement, appositive, or adjective. Make your writing shine.

Learn the Seven Types of English Nouns

• Abstract Nouns.
• Collective Nouns.
• Common Nouns.
• Concrete Nouns.
• Pronouns.
• Proper Nouns.
• Uncountable Nouns/Mass Nouns/Non-Count Nouns.
• Noun Types Quiz.

A common noun is the general, non-specific term for a person, place, thing, or idea. Usually, common nouns are not capitalized unless they begin a sentence. In this example, stage, sleep, repeat, times, and night are all general common nouns.

Here are 20 examples of proper noun in english;

• Sydney.
• Dr. Morgan.
• Atlantic Ocean.
• September.
• Tom.
• Argentina.
• Mercedes.
• Titanic.

The difference between a common noun and a proper noun is what type of thing they are referring to. Common nouns refer to generic things while proper nouns refer to specific things. For example, the noun country is a common noun because it refers to a general, non-specific place.

Yes, “water” is a common noun (“May I please have a glass of water?”), and is always lowercase unless it starts a sentence. The opposite of a common noun is a proper noun (e.g., Atlantic Ocean, Sofia, India), which indicates a particular person, place, or thing.

‘Milk’ is a common noun. The opposite of a common noun is a proper noun, which names a specific person,…

A common noun is the generic name for a person, place, or thing in a class or group. Unlike proper nouns, a common noun is not capitalized unless it either begins a sentence or appears in a title. All nouns name something, but proper nouns name them specifically. Common nouns do not.

In general, water is used as an uncountable noun, which means that it does not change to a plural form. Now, peas and stones are countable nouns, so they can take both singular and plural forms, but as water is an uncountable noun it doesn’t alter, so we have one glass of water or two glasses of water.

Uncountable Nouns with ‘ARE’, ‘IS’ and ‘IS A’, a little confused I am a little confused about the use of ‘are’ and ‘is’, ‘is a’ with uncountable nouns. The ‘software’ is an uncountable noun but there are a lot of instances in search results from Internet, such as – “Free software” is a matter of liberty.

Yeah, you could say ”two waters” and it will be understood by whomever is selling it or handing it to you. As you no doubt learnt in your elementary grammar class, words such as ‘water’ and ‘coffee’ – when they refers in general terms to the liquid or solid substance – are grammatically uncountable.

In contrast, uncountable nouns cannot be counted. They have a singular form and do not have a plural form – you can’t add an s to it. E.g., dirt, rice, information and hair. Some uncountable nouns are abstract nouns such as advice and knowledge.

Uncountable nouns never take the indefinite article (a or an), but they do take singular verbs. The is sometimes used with uncountable nouns in the same way it is used with plural countable nouns, that is, to refer to a specific object, group, or idea.

These mass nouns (which are sometimes called noncount nouns) usually have only singular forms—spaghetti, rice, and gold, for example. Count nouns in the singular can follow an indefinite article (or another determiner): a plate, a bag, one diamond.

Noun. (uncountable) A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au. (countable) A gold medal.

A mass noun (or non-countable noun or noncount noun as it’s also known) is a noun without a plural form.

Uncountable (or non-count) nouns are words which cannot be counted. Therefore, they only have a singular form. They have no plural forms….Using Countable & Uncountable Nouns.

Used with Countable & Uncountable Nouns
no	countable	no magazines, no chocolates, no pilots, no rings, no markers

[countable] the whole physical structure of a human or an animal a human/female/male/naked body parts of the body His whole body was trembling.

The main common noun are: Body parts and organ nouns: head, arm, hand, foot, chest etc.

(uncommon, possibly nonstandard) Alternative form of body part.

“Body” does not appear as an adjective in these dictionaries. It appears only as a noun. However, it is clear that “body” is often used as an adjective in certain collocations.