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Flip can be a noun, an interjection, an adjective or a verb.
flip used as a noun:
- A maneuver which rotates an object end-over-end.
- a person whom the speaker dislikes.
"Shut up you flip, I can sing if I like."
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 →
flip used as an interjection:
- used to express annoyance, especially when the speaker has made an error.
An interjection is an abrupt remark like Oh! or Dear me, or Eww. It is usually used to express the strong emotions of the speaker. The sentence 'Congratulations! You won the gold medal!' shows the use of 'congratulations' as an interjection. Learn more →
flip used as an adjective:
- Having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose.
"I hate to be flip, but perhaps we could steal a Christmas tree." - Sarcastic.
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 →
flip used as a verb:
- To throw (as in to turn over).
"You need to flip the pancake onto the other side." - To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger.
"If you can't decide which option to go for, flip a coin." - To go berserk or crazy.
"I'd flip if anyone broke my phone."
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 flip?
- Noun usage: Shut up you flip, I can sing if I like.
- Adjective usage: I hate to be flip, but perhaps we could steal a Christmas tree.
- Verb usage: You need to flip the pancake onto the other side.
- Verb usage: If you can't decide which option to go for, flip a coin.
- Verb usage: I'd flip if anyone broke my phone.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of flip 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 flip, 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).