Command naming and discovery
Commands in PowerShell are formed around verb and noun pairs in the form verb-noun.
This feature is useful when finding commands; it allows you to make educated guesses such that there is little need to memorize long lists of commands.
Verbs
The list of verbs is maintained by Microsoft. This formal approach to naming commands greatly assists discovery.
Verbs are words such as Add, Get, Set, and New. In addition to these, we have ConvertFrom and ConvertTo.
The list of verbs is available within PowerShell, as follows:
Get-VerbEach verb has a group, such as data, life cycle, or security. Complementary actions such as encryption and decryption tend to use verbs in the same group; for example, the verb protect may be used to encrypt something and the verb unprotect may be used to decrypt.
A detailed list of verbs, along with use cases, is available on MSDN:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms714428(v=vs.85).aspx
Nouns
The noun provides a very short description of the...
