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Bush can be an adjective, a noun or an adverb.

bush used as an adjective:

  1. The Australian use of the noun "bush", used attributively.
    "The bush vote; bush tucker; bush aristocracy"
  2. Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
    "They're supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush."

Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →

bush used as a noun:

  1. A horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant that is distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height; usually less than 6m tall.
  2. The pubic hair, especially that of a woman; hence, vulva.
  3. A tavern or wine merchant.
  4. The countryside area of Australia that is neither arid nor remote enough to constitute the outback, and may include areas of natural flora even within conurbations
  5. An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
  6. The remote forested areas of Canada, excluding the high arctic barrens. The upcountry.
  7. Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"
    "The way that pitcher showed up the batter after the strikeout was bush."
  8. A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal (also bushing).
  9. A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.

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 →

bush used as an adverb:

  1. Towards the direction of the outback.
    "On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own."

An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →

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What type of word is bush?

As detailed above, 'bush' can be an adjective, a noun or an adverb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Adjective usage: The bush vote; bush tucker; bush aristocracy
  2. Adjective usage: They're supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush.
  3. Noun usage: The way that pitcher showed up the batter after the strikeout was bush.
  4. Adverb usage: On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of bush 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 bush, 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).

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