Noun

A noun (from Latin nōmen, literally meaning "name") is a word that functions as the name of some specific thing or set of things, such as living creatures, objects, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, or ideas.Linguistically, a noun is a member of a large, open part of speech whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition.

Lexical categories (parts of speech) are defined in terms of the ways in which their members combine with other kinds of expressions. The syntactic rules for nouns differ from language to language. In English, nouns are those words which can occur with articles and attributive adjectives and can function as the head of a noun phrase.

History

Word classes (parts of speech) were described by Sanskrit grammarians from at least the 5th century BC. In Yāska's Nirukta, the noun (nāma) is one of the four main categories of words defined.

The Ancient Greek equivalent was ónoma (ὄνομα), referred to by Plato in the Cratylus dialog, and later listed as one of the eight parts of speech in The Art of Grammar, attributed to Dionysius Thrax (2nd century BC). The term used in Latin grammar was nōmen. All of these terms for "noun" were also words meaning "name". The English word noun is derived from the Latin term, through the Anglo-Norman noun.

National Geographic

National Geographic or NatGeo may refer to:

See also

The Incredible Dr. Pol

The Incredible Dr. Pol is a reality television show on Nat Geo Wild. The show follows Dutch-American veterinarian Jan Pol, and his family and employees, at his veterinarian office in rural Weidman, Michigan. The show premiered in 2011. His son, Charles, appears on the show and is also one of the producers. The show has set viewership records on Nat Geo Wild.

Pol and the show have encountered controversy with some of Pol's methods and treatment of the animals. In April 2015, regulators in Michigan found Pol negligent in his treatment of a dog struck by a car in May 2011. A disciplinary subcommittee of the Michigan Board of Veterinary Medicine voted on March 26 to fine Pol $500 and put his license on probation for violating minimal standards of care in his treatment of a Boston terrier who sustained an eye proptosis and a broken pelvis. Pol was also mandated to complete continuing-education courses.

Jan Pol

Jan-Harm Pol (born 4 September 1942) originally came from Drenthe in the Netherlands, where he was raised on a family dairy farm. Pol studied at the Utrecht University, where he graduated as a veterinary physician (DVM degree). After marrying his wife Diane in 1967, the couple immigrated to the United States in 1971. They relocated to Harbor Beach, Michigan, where Pol worked for another veterinarian for more than 10 years. They then moved to Weidman, Michigan where Pol and his wife started their own practice Pol Veterinary Services out of their home in 1981. Currently, Pol's practice has over 20,000 clients.

Nat Geo Wild

Nat Geo Wild (stylized as Nat Geo WILD or abbreviated as NGW) is a cable/satellite TV channel focused primarily on wildlife and natural history programming. It is a sister network to National Geographic Channel and it is the latest channel to be jointly launched by the National Geographic Society and Fox Cable Networks.

It first launched in Hong Kong on January 1, 2006. The channel later launched in the United Kingdom, Turkey, Ireland, Romania, India, Vietnam, and Poland replacing the now defunct Adventure One. The channel remains the world's first bilingual wildlife service, available in English and Cantonese in the Hong Kong market as well as Tagalog in The Philippines. The channel launched in Latin America on November 1, 2009 as a high definition channel. In 2010, it launched in the United States.

As of February 2015, approximately 57,891,000 American households (49.7% of households with television) receive Nat Geo Wild.

Programming

Availability

Africa

The channel launched in South Africa in mid-2009, and is available on the South African Satellite Network DSTV.