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Bag can be a noun or a verb.
bag used as a noun:
- A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
- A ladies' handbag
- One's preference.
"Acid House is not my bag, I prefer the more traditional styles of music." - An ugly woman.
- The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
"The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head." - First, second, or third base.
"He headed back to the bag." - A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
bag used as a verb:
- To put into a bag.
- To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
"We bagged three deer yesterday." - To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
- To be caught by the police.
- To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
- To laugh uncontrollably.
- To criticise sarcastically.
- To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is bag?
- Noun usage: Acid House is not my bag, I prefer the more traditional styles of music.
- Noun usage: The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.
- Noun usage: He headed back to the bag.
- Verb usage: We bagged three deer yesterday.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of bag are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of bag, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).