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Meaning of "nominalize" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NOMINALIZE

nominalize  [ˈnɒmɪnəlaɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NOMINALIZE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nominalize is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb nominalize in English.

WHAT DOES NOMINALIZE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Nominalization

In linguistics, nominalization or nominalisation is the use of a verb, an adjective, or an adverb as the head of a noun phrase, with or without morphological transformation. The term can also refer specifically to the process of producing a noun from another part of speech via the addition of derivational affixes. Nominalization happens in languages around the world. Some languages simply allow verbs to be used as nouns, while others require some form of morphological transformation. English has cases of both.

Definition of nominalize in the English dictionary

The definition of nominalize in the dictionary is to convert into a noun.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO NOMINALIZE

PRESENT

Present
I nominalize
you nominalize
he/she/it nominalizes
we nominalize
you nominalize
they nominalize
Present continuous
I am nominalizing
you are nominalizing
he/she/it is nominalizing
we are nominalizing
you are nominalizing
they are nominalizing
Present perfect
I have nominalized
you have nominalized
he/she/it has nominalized
we have nominalized
you have nominalized
they have nominalized
Present perfect continuous
I have been nominalizing
you have been nominalizing
he/she/it has been nominalizing
we have been nominalizing
you have been nominalizing
they have been nominalizing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I nominalized
you nominalized
he/she/it nominalized
we nominalized
you nominalized
they nominalized
Past continuous
I was nominalizing
you were nominalizing
he/she/it was nominalizing
we were nominalizing
you were nominalizing
they were nominalizing
Past perfect
I had nominalized
you had nominalized
he/she/it had nominalized
we had nominalized
you had nominalized
they had nominalized
Past perfect continuous
I had been nominalizing
you had been nominalizing
he/she/it had been nominalizing
we had been nominalizing
you had been nominalizing
they had been nominalizing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will nominalize
you will nominalize
he/she/it will nominalize
we will nominalize
you will nominalize
they will nominalize
Future continuous
I will be nominalizing
you will be nominalizing
he/she/it will be nominalizing
we will be nominalizing
you will be nominalizing
they will be nominalizing
Future perfect
I will have nominalized
you will have nominalized
he/she/it will have nominalized
we will have nominalized
you will have nominalized
they will have nominalized
Future perfect continuous
I will have been nominalizing
you will have been nominalizing
he/she/it will have been nominalizing
we will have been nominalizing
you will have been nominalizing
they will have been nominalizing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would nominalize
you would nominalize
he/she/it would nominalize
we would nominalize
you would nominalize
they would nominalize
Conditional continuous
I would be nominalizing
you would be nominalizing
he/she/it would be nominalizing
we would be nominalizing
you would be nominalizing
they would be nominalizing
Conditional perfect
I would have nominalize
you would have nominalize
he/she/it would have nominalize
we would have nominalize
you would have nominalize
they would have nominalize
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been nominalizing
you would have been nominalizing
he/she/it would have been nominalizing
we would have been nominalizing
you would have been nominalizing
they would have been nominalizing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you nominalize
we let´s nominalize
you nominalize
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to nominalize
Past participle
nominalized
Present Participle
nominalizing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NOMINALIZE


analyze
ˈænəlaɪz
brutalise
ˈbruːtəlaɪz
catalyze
ˈkætəlaɪz
centralise
ˈsɛntrəlaɪz
channelise
ˈtʃænəlaɪz
channelize
ˈtʃænəlaɪz
decentralise
diːˈsentrəlaɪz
destabilise
diːˈsteɪbəlaɪz
finalise
ˈfaɪnəlaɪz
generalise
ˈdʒenrəlaɪz
irrationalise
ɪˈræʃənəlaɪz
legalise
ˈliːɡəlaɪz
materialise
məˈtɪərɪəlaɪz
nationalise
ˈnæʃənəlaɪz
naturalise
ˈnætʃərəlaɪz
paralyze
ˈpærəlaɪz
penalise
ˈpiːnəlaɪz
psychoanalyze
ˌsaɪkəʊˈænəlaɪz
ritualized
ˈrɪtjʊəlaɪz
symbolise
ˈsɪmbəlaɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NOMINALIZE

nomina
nominable
nominal
nominal aphasia
nominal scale
nominal value
nominal wages
nominalism
nominalist
nominalistic
nominalization
nominally
nominate
nominately
nomination
nomination paper
nominatival
nominative
nominatively
nominator

WORDS THAT END LIKE NOMINALIZE

Belize
capitalize
contextualize
crystalize
finalize
generalize
immortalize
initialize
legalize
localize
marginalize
materialize
neutralize
normalize
personalize
realize
revitalize
socialize
specialize
vandalize
visualize

Synonyms and antonyms of nominalize in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «nominalize» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NOMINALIZE

Find out the translation of nominalize to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of nominalize from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nominalize» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

nominalize
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

nominalize
570 millions of speakers

English

nominalize
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

nominalize
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

nominalize
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

nominalize
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

nominalize
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

nominalization
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

nominaliser
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Nominalisasi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

nominalisieren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

nominalize
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

nominalize
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nominalisasi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nominalize
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

nominalization
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नामितीकरण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

adlaştırma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

nominalize
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nominalize
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

nominalize
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nominaliza
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

nominalize
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

nominalize
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nominalize
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nominalize
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nominalize

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NOMINALIZE»

The term «nominalize» is used very little and occupies the 187.284 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NOMINALIZE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «nominalize» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «nominalize» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nominalize

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NOMINALIZE»

Discover the use of nominalize in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nominalize and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Making Dictionaries: Preserving Indigenous Languages of the ...
... in this way. something-ashes-press-[passive-nominalize]-abso- lutive. something-ashes-bury-[passive-nominalize]-absolutive. Such a covering, something-ashes-press-nominalize-absolutive. something- ashes-bury- nominalize-absolutive.
William Frawley, Kenneth C. Hill, Pamela Munro, 2002
2
Tense, Aspect, and Indexicality
If we nominalize with respect to the syntactic head 'cross', then for 'John's quick crossing of the street' we have the innocent identity corresponding to (27), namely (32): (32) (the e) [9e'] [cross the street(John,e) & quick(e,e')]1⁄4 (the e) cross the ...
James Higginbotham, 2009
3
The Grammar of Possession: Inalienability, Incorporation,and ...
bination with the intransitive causative morpheme mbo-. Except for ka-'u 'kaña- drinking', which can nominalize via zero-derivation, no other possibility for nominalization exists for these verbs. Example (18) illustrates the use of acceptable ...
Maura Velazquez Castillo, 1996
4
A Grammar of Berbice Dutch Creole
Other properties, listed in Zwicky—-Pullurn (1983), which plead against an analysis of the BD nominalize as a suffix, pertain to semantic and selectional properties: affixes usually influence the meaning of the stem to which they are affixed; this ...
Silvia Kouwenberg, 1994
5
The Semantics of Nominalizations across Languages and Frameworks
Verbs like siffler ('whistle', 'blow') or froisser ('crease') confirm this generalization, since they nominalize with -age on their transitive reading and with -ment on their intransitive one: (20) L'arbitre a sifflé lejoueur. > Le sifflage/#le sifflement du ...
Monika Rathert, Artemis Alexiadou, 2010
6
Tracking Reason : Proof, Consequence, and Truth: Proof, ...
8. How. to. Nominalize. Formalism. 8.1 Introduction Nominalists and formalists, when instantiated in real flesh and blood, are sympathetic with one another: Both groups, whether real or not, hate taking mathematical vocabulary at metaphysical  ...
Jody Azzouni Professor of Philosophy Tufts University, 2005
7
Improving your spelling
Falk S. Johnson. Suffix able acy al ance ancy ar ency ent er fill hood ible ical ify ion ish ism ity ize less like ly ment ness or sion ty ward wise Function adjectival ize nominalize adjectivalize nominalize nominalize nominalize nominalize ...
Falk S. Johnson, 1979
8
Roots of Afrikaans: Selected Writings of Hans Den Besten
Note that a Kh. nominal singular suffix need not always nominalize a single verb. It may also nominalize a fullfledged sentence (with Subject NP and INFL and all that) or a 'VP'. The second option (nominalized sentences) does not have to be ...
Hans den Besten, Ton van der Wouden, 2012
9
Time and Modality
If we nominalize with respecttothesyntactic head, then for John's quick crossing of the street and the other nominals we have the identitycorresponding to (2.13), namely (2.18): (2.18) (the e) [∃e] [cross the street(John, e)&quick(e,e)] = (the e) ...
Jacqueline Guéron, Jacqueline Lecarme, 2008
10
Japanese Stage-Step Course: Grammar-Reference
の is also used to nominalize the preceding verb, just as こと is. “I like to read books.” (4)こと and の as nominalizers こと and の as nominalizers are interchangeable in many cases. The following pair of sentences illustrates that both こと and の ...
Wako Tawa, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NOMINALIZE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nominalize is used in the context of the following news items.
1
To connect with your reader, personalize; don't nominalize
To nominalize is to change your verbs into nouns, as in 'It is my recommendation' rather than 'I recommend,' and 'As per your request' rather ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 15»
2
L.A. minimum wage hike will raise prices for all: Letters
They mention pass-along costs, though they nominalize them. This is incorrect because if one thinks that such costs will not be passed along at ... «The Daily Breeze, Mar 15»
3
The best social science book title ever
... terminology that social scientists habitually use – 'reification' or 'nominalization' rather than the corresponding verbs 'reify' or 'nominalize'. «io9, Aug 13»
4
Former KU wide receiver Omigie arrested in robbery case that …
nominalize 1 year, 11 months ago. All that for some cash and pot? I guess that shows the football team isn't just given these things. «Lawrence Journal World, Aug 13»
5
Dick Harmon : Traditionalists fear advent of up - tempo football
... them an advantage over defenses that might be caught unawares, unprepared, unable to substitute and nominalize superior size and depth. «Deseret News, Jun 13»
6
The Greatest Draft Classes in NFL History
To nominalize the arguments, I've decided to create the "Greatness Score." Here is how is breaks down. For any Hall of Fame player drafted in ... «Bleacher Report, Apr 13»
7
Those Irritating Verbs-as-Nouns
Type A involves a morphological change, namely suffixation: the verb “to investigate” produces the noun “investigation,” and “to nominalize” ... «New York Times, Mar 13»
8
Drawing the Financial Line for the Miami Dolphins with CB Sean Smith
Before the Dolphins can nominalize their interest and answer the pertinent issue of how much of the contract they can afford to guarantee to ... «Bleacher Report, Mar 13»
9
NFL Combine: Which Positions Face the Greatest Pressure to Perform
However, what the combine ultimately does is nominalize the physical traits of the players, which provides a user-friendly system for ... «Bleacher Report, Feb 13»
10
Counterattack: Should Leagues Protect Stars Like Lionel Messi And …
I don't mean to nominalize this but, sorry Barca, stuff happens. Ramsey: If it's clean, I have no problem with it. If it's questionable, and the player ... «Goal.com America, Sep 10»

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