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The plural may be used to emphasise the plurality of the attribute, especially in British English but very rarely in American English: a careers advisor, a languages expert. The plural is also more common with irregular plurals for various attributions: women killers are women who kill, whereas woman killers are those who kill women.
Apparatus (band), an electro-industrial group active during the nineties; Apparatus, 1995 release by the band Apparatus; Apparatus, an academic journal on film; In gymnastics, any of the individual events, or the equipment used in performing the event; A piece of laboratory equipment; in anatomy, a group of organs, see Apparatus (anatomy)
The plural of "oko" in the first meaning is "oczy" (even if actually referring to more than two eyes), while in the second it is "oka" (even if actually referring to exactly two drops). Traces of dual can also be found in Modern Hebrew .
In languages with a singular/dual/plural paradigm, the exact meaning of plural depends on whether the dual is obligatory or facultative (optional). [16] In contrast to English and other singular/plural languages where plural means two or more, in languages with an obligatory dual, plural strictly means three or more.
The plural is modi operandi. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The word operandi is a gerund in the genitive case , "of operating"; gerunds can never be pluralised in Latin, as opposed to gerundives . When a noun with an attribute in the genitive is pluralised, only the head noun normally changes, just as in English with "of": "a fact of life, two facts of life ...
Plural number is often said to mean more than one, [24] but, in fact, it restricts the denotation of the noun to the set of non-singularities. That is, in English, plural nouns are appropriate for quantities denoted by all the real numbers, including 0 and other quantities smaller than 1, except exactly ±1.
Literal meaning functionary An apparatchik ( Russian : аппара́тчик ) was a full-time, professional functionary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union or the Soviet government apparat ( аппарат , apparatus), someone who held any position of bureaucratic or political responsibility, with the exception of the higher ranks of ...
Examples are stewardi (supposed plural of stewardess) and Elvi (as a plural for Elvis imitators). The Toyota corporation has determined that their Prius model should have the plural form Prii, even though the Latin word prius has a plural priora, the Lada Priora having prior claim to that name—though the common plural is "Priuses".