There are certain words that, when used as a verb, mean the process of creating or transforming something into an instance of the word used as a noun. For example, to weave is to make strands of something into a weave. Likewise, writing is the action of creating writing, and if you spit, you end up with spit.
A few dubious examples: verb, sometimes humorously used as a verb meaning “to make a word into a verb”. For programmers: if you diff something, the result is a diff. To edit can be said to produce an edit, as some people call edited versions of things.
Is there a name for this property? There must be many more (and better) examples; can you come up with any?
I had been toying with the idea of expanding my website into something
larger, more interesting, and hopefully better designed for some time, when
around July of last year I began playing around with the Python web framework
known as Django. I was immediately struck by the elegance, ease, and
simplicity of developing relatively complex applications on top of it, but
didn't think I had any serious use for it at the time. I bookmarked the
excellent Django book and promptly forgot all about it.