NNABSPROC Abstract/process nouns
Definition
Nouns denoting abstract concepts, actions, or processes.
Detection Rules
xiao_2009
mfte
cql[lemma={words} & pos="NN.*"]
Word list (584 items)
action
actions
activity
activities
application
applications
argument
arguments
development
developments
education
educations
effect
effects
function
functions
method
methods
research
researches
result
results
process
processes
accounting
accountings
achievement
achievements
addition
additions
administration
administrations
approach
approaches
arrangement
arrangements
assignment
assignments
competition
competitions
construction
constructions
consumption
consumptions
contribution
contributions
counseling
counselings
criticism
criticisms
definition
definitions
discrimination
discriminations
description
descriptions
discussion
discussions
distribution
distributions
division
divisions
eruption
eruptions
evolution
evolutions
exchange
exchanges
exercise
exercises
experiment
experiments
explanation
explanations
expression
expressions
formation
formations
generation
generations
graduation
graduations
management
managements
marketing
marketings
marriage
marriages
mechanism
mechanisms
meeting
meetings
operation
operations
orientation
orientations
performance
performances
practice
practices
presentation
presentations
procedure
procedures
production
productions
progress
progresses
reaction
reactions
registration
registrations
regulation
regulations
revolution
revolutions
selection
selections
session
sessions
strategy
strategies
teaching
teachings
technique
techniques
tradition
traditions
training
trainings
transition
transitions
treatment
treatments
trial
trials
act
acts
agreement
agreements
attempt
attempts
attendance
attendances
birth
births
break
breaks
claim
claims
comment
comments
comparison
comparisons
conflict
conflicts
deal
deals
death
deaths
debate
debates
demand
demands
answer
answers
control
controls
flow
flows
service
services
work
works
test
tests
use
uses
war
wars
change
changes
question
questions
study
studies
talk
talks
task
tasks
trade
trades
transfer
transfers
admission
admissions
design
designs
detail
details
dimension
dimensions
direction
directions
disorder
disorders
diversity
diversities
economy
economies
emergency
emergencies
emphasis
emphases
employment
employments
equilibrium
equilibriums
equity
equities
error
errors
expense
expenses
facility
facilities
failure
failures
fallacy
fallacies
feature
features
format
formats
freedom
freedoms
fun
funs
gender
genders
goal
goals
grammar
grammars
health
healths
heat
heats
help
helps
identity
identities
image
images
impact
impacts
importance
importances
influence
influences
input
inputs
labor
labors
leadership
leaderships
link
links
manner
manners
math
maths
matrix
matrices
meaning
meanings
music
musics
network
networks
objective
objectives
opportunity
opportunities
option
options
origin
origins
output
outputs
past
pasts
pattern
patterns
phase
phases
philosophy
philosophies
plan
plans
potential
potentials
prerequisite
prerequisites
presence
presences
principle
principles
success
successes
profile
profiles
profit
profits
proposal
proposals
psychology
psychologies
quality
qualities
quiz
quizzes
race
races
reality
realities
religion
religions
resource
resources
respect
respects
rest
rests
return
returns
risk
risks
substance
substances
scene
scenes
security
securities
series
series
set
sets
setting
settings
sex
sexes
shape
shapes
share
shares
show
shows
sign
signs
signal
signals
sort
sorts
sound
sounds
spring
springs
stage
stages
standard
standards
start
starts
stimulus
stimuli
strength
strengths
stress
stresses
style
styles
support
supports
survey
surveys
symbol
symbols
topic
topics
track
tracks
trait
traits
trouble
troubles
truth
truths
variation
variations
variety
varieties
velocity
velocities
version
versions
whole
wholes
action
actions
account
accounts
condition
conditions
culture
cultures
end
ends
factor
factors
grade
grades
interest
interests
issue
issues
job
jobs
kind
kinds
language
languages
law
laws
level
levels
life
lives
model
models
name
names
nature
natures
order
orders
policy
policies
position
positions
power
powers
pressure
pressures
relationship
relationships
requirement
requirements
role
roles
rule
rules
science
sciences
side
sides
situation
situations
skill
skills
source
sources
structure
structures
subject
subjects
type
types
information
informations
right
rights
state
states
system
systems
value
values
way
ways
address
addresses
absence
absences
advantage
advantages
aid
aids
alternative
alternatives
aspect
aspects
authority
authorities
axis
axes
background
backgrounds
balance
balances
base
bases
beginning
beginnings
benefit
benefits
bias
biases
bond
bonds
capital
capitals
care
cares
career
careers
cause
causes
characteristic
characteristics
charge
charges
check
checks
choice
choices
circuit
circuits
circumstance
circumstances
climate
climates
code
codes
color
colors
column
columns
combination
combinations
complex
complexes
connection
connections
constant
constants
constraint
constraints
contact
contacts
content
contents
contract
contracts
context
contexts
contrast
contrasts
crime
crimes
criteria
criterias
cross
crosses
current
currents
curriculum
curriculums
curve
curves
debt
debts
density
densities
usas
cql[lemma={words} & pos="NN|NNS"]
Word list (623 items)
Break-up
Jinx
P-economy
Snip
abandon
abeyance
abrogation
absorbing
abstraction
abstractions
accident
act
acting
action
action-packed
active
activities
activity
acts
ad-lib
adherence
ado
affair
affairs
all-purpose
amelogenesis
annihilation
apocalypse
apostasy
applicability
appropriateness
aptness
arbitrariness
assassin
asset
attaching
auto-destruction
autolysis
automation
automatisation
automatization
autopilot
avail
avoidance
avoiding
back-seat
backseat
baler
ballgame
banging
barrenness
basher
bedlam
beetling
bellyflop
bender
biz
blacklist
blast
blasting
bleeding-heart
blemish
blight
blow-out
blowing
blowout
bondage
bonding
bottling
bound
box-builders
breach
break-up
breakage
breakages
breaking
brush-off
bubbling
bull-baiting
bulldozing
bumping
bundling
bushfire
bustle
cannibalisation
canning
capping
captive
captivity
carbonizing
carelessness
carnage
catcher
caution
cautiousness
caveat
chance
chaos
chipping
chop
chopping
chops
chore
circumscription
circumvention
clampdown
clamping
clinging
clipping
closing
closure
clutch
clutching
co-production
coaters
cobble
coincidence
collapse
collapsing
collision
collisions
commission
commissions
committal
committing
complicity
composting
concreting
confinement
consisting
constraint
constriction
constrictions
constructivism
consumption
containment
contaminating
contents
convenience
conveniences
cop-out
coping
corrosion
crack
crackdown
cracking
crash
crashing
creating
creation
creator
creators
crumbling
crusher
crushers
curb
curbs
curses
cut
cutting
dabbing
dabble
dabbler
dabblers
damage
damaging
daub
dealing
dealings
decimation
decoking
decomposition
deed
deeds
default
defaults
defying
delamination
demarcation
demolishment
demolition
depredation
depredations
destroying
destruction
detainee
detainees
detriment
devastation
dig
digging
dilapidation
dilapidations
dipping
discharge
discharges
disciplinarian
discretion
disjointing
dismantling
disqualification
disrepair
disservice
disuse
dodge
dodger
doer
doing
doings
doldrum
doldrums
dragnet
draw
dredge
drilling
duress
effusion
eligibility
emancipation
encompassing
end-user
enforcement
enforcing
engraving
eradication
erosion
errand
escape
escapee
evading
evasion
ex-user
excavation
excluding
exclusion
exclusions
executing
exigencies
expedient
expedients
exploding
exploit
exploitation
exploiter
exploiters
explosion
extrusion
fashioner
fashioners
fastener
feat
felling
filtering
filtration
fissure
fitness
fixing
flick
flicking
flip
flipping
flood-gates
flouting
fluke
folding
follow-through
forking
framer
free-for-all
free-riding
freedom
freeform
freeing
freestyle
frenzy
fugitive
fumbling
function
functionality
functioning
fusion
futility
gearing
getaway
gimmickry
globalisation
gluing
godsend
going-on
goings-on
gouge
grafters
grafting
grip
gripping
gritting
group-work
groupwork
guarding
hacking
hammering
hand-picking
handiwork
handling
handwork
harm
harnessing
havoc
hibernation
high-stakes
hostage
hostages
house-building
housebuilding
housework
hubbub
hustle
hyperactivity
idleness
implementation
implementing
improvisation
impunity
inactivity
inclusion
incorporating
incorporation
indiscipline
ineffectiveness
ingredient
initiative
initiatives
insider
installation
installing
instillation
integrating
integration
integrators
interlocking
internment
involvement
involving
irrelevance
isolation
jab
jinx
kegging
labor
labour
labouring
labours
lamination
lamplighting
laxity
layering
leak
leakage
leaking
legwork
liabilities
liability
liberalisation
liberalization
liberation
liberty
limitation
limiting
logistics
loose
luck
macing
maintenance
maintenence
maker
making
malfunction
malfunctions
manufacture
manufacturer
manufacturing
martinet
materialism
mauling
messing
metaphysics
milling
misadventure
misadventures
misfortune
mishap
mobilisation
mobilization
mooring
moratorium
moulder
mousetraps
multi-taskers
mutilation
nailing
neglect
negligence
nemesis
nudge
off-chance
ology
omission
ooze
opening
operating
operation
operative
opportunism
opportunist
opportunities
opportunity
opus
outcast
outcasts
overexploitation
overhaul
overworking
packer
packing
parameter
parameters
paring
passivity
pat
pegging
pelting
performativity
performing
personalization
pinking
planing
plastering
poodling
potluck
pounding
pouring
powering
practicability
practicalities
practicality
practice
practicing
pragmatism
pragmatist
pre-making
precaution
precautions
prep
preparation
preparing
pressing
prick
proceeding
proceedings
process
processing
prodding
production
project
projects
providence
puncture
pursuance
pursuing
pursuit
quarantine
racket
raking
random
randomising
ransacking
rashness
ravages
re-enactment
re-mixing
reaction
recourse
recreating
recycling
redoing
reenactment
refining
refinishing
regenerating
reintegration
release
releasing
relevance
relieving
reliving
remaking
remissness
remix
reneging
repackaging
reprisal
rerun
respray
resprays
restraint
restraints
restressing
restricting
restriction
reunification
reuse
rewind
rigour
risk-taker
riveting
routing
rub
rubbing
ruin
ruins
run-in
runaway
rusting
sabotage
safeguarding
scope
scrape
scraping
scuff
sealing
securing
segmentation
self-discipline
self-restraint
servicer
servicing
shackle
shackles
shards
shattering
shebang
sifting
sinecure
skim
skive
skivery
slash
slashing
smashing
snare
snip
soldering
spill
spliting
spoiling
spray
spraying
spreading
squirting
stabbing
standby
stir
stirring
stirrings
structuring
stubbing
styling
suitability
suiting
swath
synthesis
tackling
task
tearaways
tether
threshhold
thrift
throes
thuggery
tightening
tightening-up
time-waster
timing
toil
tosser
tossers
trap
treading
tweak
tweaks
under-utilising
undergoing
undertaking
unfortunate
unlocking
unpacking
upkeep
usability
use
usefulness
user
usery
uses
using
utilisation
utilities
utility
utilization
venting
victim
wariness
waxing
wiring
workflow
workflows
workhorse
workhorses
wrapping
wreckage
wring
write-off
zap
zoning
Normalization
Per nouns
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