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Chill can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.

chill used as an adjective:

  1. Moderately cold or chilly.
    "A chill wind was blowing down the street."
  2. Calm, relaxed, easygoing. See also: chill out.
    "I'm pretty chill most of the time."
  3. "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
    "That new movie was chill, man."

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 →

chill used as a noun:

  1. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
    "There was a chill in the air."
  2. A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness: close the window or you'll catch a chill.
    "I felt a chill when the wind picked up."
  3. An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
    "Despite the heat, he felt a chill as he entered the crimescene."

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 →

chill used as a verb:

  1. To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
    "Chill before serving."
  2. To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
  3. To become cold.
    "In the wind he chilled quickly."
  4. To become hard by rapid cooling.
  5. To relax, lay back. Also chill out.
    "Chill, man, we've got a whole week to do it; no sense in getting worked up."
  6. To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. Also chill out.
    "Hey, we should chill this weekend."
  7. To smoke marijuana.
    "On Friday night do you wanna chill?"

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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As detailed above, 'chill' can be an adjective, a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Adjective usage: A chill wind was blowing down the street.
  2. Adjective usage: I'm pretty chill most of the time.
  3. Adjective usage: Paint-your-own ceramics studios are a chill way to express yourself while learning more about your date's right brain.
  4. Adjective usage: That new movie was chill, man.
  5. Noun usage: There was a chill in the air.
  6. Noun usage: I felt a chill when the wind picked up.
  7. Noun usage: Despite the heat, he felt a chill as he entered the crimescene.
  8. Noun usage: The actor's eerie portrayal sent chills through the audience.
  9. Noun usage: His menacing presence cast a chill over everyone.
  10. Verb usage: Chill before serving.
  11. Verb usage: In the wind he chilled quickly.
  12. Verb usage: Chill, man, we've got a whole week to do it; no sense in getting worked up.
  13. Verb usage: The new gym teacher really has to chill or he's gonna blow a gasket.
  14. Verb usage: Hey, we should chill this weekend.
  15. Verb usage: On Friday night do you wanna chill?

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