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Chase can be a noun or a verb.

chase used as a noun:

  1. The action of the verb "to chase".
  2. A hunt.
  3. A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
  4. Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
  5. Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase
  6. A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate making.
  7. A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
  8. A trench or channel for drainpipes or wiring.
  9. The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
  10. The cavity of a mold.

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 →

chase used as a verb:

  1. To pursue, to follow at speed.
  2. To hunt.
  3. To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
    "Australia will be chasing 217 for victory on the final day."
  4. To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch
    "Jones chases one out of the zone for strike two."
  5. To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed
    "The rally chased the starter."
  6. To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her
  7. To attempt to score the required number of runs to win.
  8. To groove; indent.
  9. To cut (the thread of a screw).
  10. To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.

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 chase?

As detailed above, 'chase' can be a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: Australia will be chasing 217 for victory on the final day.
  2. Verb usage: Jones chases one out of the zone for strike two.
  3. Verb usage: The rally chased the starter.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of chase 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 chase, and guess at its most common usage.

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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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