Word Type
Credit can be a verb or a noun.
credit used as a verb:
- To believe.
"Someone said there had been over 100,000 people there, but I can't credit that." - To add to an account (confer debit.)
"Credit accounts receivable with the amount of the invoice." - To acknowledge a contribution.
"I credit the town council with restoring the shopping district."
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 →
credit used as a noun:
- Recognition and respect.
"I give you credit for owning up to your mistake." - # Acknowledgement of a contribution, especially in the performing arts.
- #: She received a singing credit in last year's operetta.
- # A written title shown with a film or video.
- #: They kissed, and then the credits rolled.
- A privilege of delayed payment extended to a buyer or borrower on the seller's or lender's belief that what is given will be repaid.
- The provision of resources (such as goods, services, or money) by one party (the creditor) to another party (the debtor) where that second party does not immediately pay the first party for the resources in full, and instead either arranges to pay for or to return those resources or equivalent value at a later date
"In view of your payment record, we are happy to extend further credit to you." - A person's credit rating or creditworthiness, as represented by their history of borrowing and repayment (or non payment).
"What do you mean my credit is no good?" - An addition to certain accounts.
- A reduction in taxes owed, or a refund for excess taxes paid.
"Didn't you know that the IRS will refund any excess payroll taxes that you paid if you use the 45(B) general business credit?" - A valuable member.
"That engineer is a credit to the team." - An arbitrary unit of value, used in many token economies.
"To repair your star cruiser will cost 100,000 credits."
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 →
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What type of word is credit?
- Verb usage: Someone said there had been over 100,000 people there, but I can't credit that.
- Verb usage: Credit accounts receivable with the amount of the invoice.
- Verb usage: For the payroll period credit employees' tips to their wages paid account and debit their minimum wage payable account.
- Verb usage: The full amount of the purchase has been credited to your account.
- Verb usage: I credit the town council with restoring the shopping district.
- Verb usage: Credit the point guard with another assist.
- Noun usage: I give you credit for owning up to your mistake.
- Noun usage: In view of your payment record, we are happy to extend further credit to you.
- Noun usage: What do you mean my credit is no good?
- Noun usage: Didn't you know that the IRS will refund any excess payroll taxes that you paid if you use the 45(B) general business credit?
- Noun usage: That engineer is a credit to the team.
- Noun usage: To repair your star cruiser will cost 100,000 credits.
- Noun usage: Would you like to play? I put in a dollar and I've got two credits left.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of credit 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 credit, 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).