(with+adjective+or+noun)

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• with´-it´ness — with it «WIHTH IHT, WIHTH », adjective. Slang. up to date; keeping up with the latest trends or fashions; hip; in: »Etams…set out to get with it trendy clothes as quickly as possible on to the backs of the girls (Scotsman). The papier mâché toe… …   Useful english dictionary

• with-profits — UK US adjective [before noun] UK INSURANCE ► used to describe an insurance agreement that pays an agreed amount and also pays a share of the profits the insurance company has made: »More than £400bn is held in with profits funds. → Compare… …   Financial and business terms

• Noun — For other uses, see Noun (disambiguation). Examples The cat sat on the mat. Please hand in your assignments by the end of the week. Cleanliness is next to Godliness. George Washington was the first president of the United States of America.… …   Wikipedia

• Adjective — Examples That s an interesting idea. (attributive) That idea is interesting. (predicative) Tell me something interesting. (postpositive) The good, the bad, and the ugly. (substantive) In grammar, an adjective is a describing word; the main… …   Wikipedia

• Noun groups — ◊ GRAMMAR A noun group, or noun phrase, is a group of words which acts as the subject, complement, or object of a clause, or as the object of a preposition. He was eating an apple. He was using blue ink …   Useful english dictionary

• noun groups — ◊ GRAMMAR A noun group, or noun phrase, is a group of words which acts as the subject, complement, or object of a clause, or as the object of a preposition. He was eating an apple. He was using blue ink …   Useful english dictionary

• adjective — 1. general. The term adjective was itself an adjective for a hundred years before it became used as a noun for one of the parts of speech. Joseph Priestley, in The Rudiments of English Grammar (1761), was perhaps the first English grammarian to… …   Modern English usage

• noun phrase — noun A phrase that can serve as the subject or the object of a verb; it is usually headed by a noun, (including pronouns), with any associated dependents such as determiners or modifiers. ;Examples , The term “noun phrase” itself , “Fred” in… …   Wiktionary

• adjective — late 14c., as an adjective, adjectival, in noun adjective, from O.Fr. adjectif (14c.), from L. adjectivum that is added to (the noun), neut. of adjectivus added, from pp. of adicere to throw or place (a thing) near, from ad to (see AD (Cf. ad ))… …   Etymology dictionary

• noun — ADJECTIVE ▪ plural, singular ▪ ‘Sheep’ is both a singular and a plural noun. ▪ countable ▪ mass, uncountable ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• adjective law — ad·jec·tive law / a jik tiv / n: the portion of the law that deals with the rules of procedure governing evidence, pleading, and practice compare substantive law Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary