countifying
countifying is the present participle and gerund of countify.
Meaning of countify
Verb
countify (third-person singular simple present countifies, present participle countifying, simple past and past participle countified)
- To use as a count noun.
- We can, for instance, “countify” mass nouns which come to be associated with a standard counter or container. […] Also in distinguishing some particular kind or type of the mass noun substance (by a limiting modifier of some kind), it is possible to readily countify: […]1965, Robert P. Stockwell, Jean Donald Bowen, and John Watson Martin, The Grammatical Structures of English and Spanish, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 81
Questions about countifying
- What is countifying the present participle and gerund of?
- Countifying is the present participle and gerund of countify.
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