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Glass can be an adjective, a verb, a noun or an interjection.

glass used as an adjective:

  1. Fragile.
    "He has a glass ankle."

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 →

glass used as a verb:

  1. To furnish with glass; to glaze.
  2. To enclose with glass.
  3. To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
  4. To bombard an area with such intensity (nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
  5. To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars

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 →

glass used as a noun:

  1. A solid, transparent substance made by melting sand with a mixture of soda, potash and lime.
    "The tabletop is made of glass."
  2. A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
    "Fill my glass with milk please."
  3. The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
    "Would you like a glass of milk?"
  4. Amorphous (non-crystalline) substance.
    "A popular myth is that window glass actually is an extremely viscous liquid."
  5. Glassware.
    "We collected art glass."
  6. A mirror.
    "She adjusted her lipstick in the glass."
  7. A magnifying glass or telescope.
  8. The backboard.
    "He caught the rebound off of the glass."
  9. The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
    "He fired the outlet pass off the glass."

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 →

glass used as an interjection:

  1. A warning called out to alert teammates that a shot is about to rebound off the backboard.
    "The point guard launched a wobbly attempt at a three-pointer and immediately called "Glass!""

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 →

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What type of word is glass?

As detailed above, 'glass' can be an adjective, a verb, a noun or an interjection. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Adjective usage: He has a glass ankle.
  2. Noun usage: The tabletop is made of glass.
  3. Noun usage: Fill my glass with milk please.
  4. Noun usage: Would you like a glass of milk?
  5. Noun usage: A popular myth is that window glass actually is an extremely viscous liquid.
  6. Noun usage: We collected art glass.
  7. Noun usage: She adjusted her lipstick in the glass.
  8. Noun usage: He caught the rebound off of the glass.
  9. Noun usage: He fired the outlet pass off the glass.
  10. Interjection usage: The point guard launched a wobbly attempt at a three-pointer and immediately called "Glass!"

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