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Horse can be a verb or a noun.

horse used as a verb:

  1. To provide with a horse.
  2. To frolic, to act mischieviously. Usually followed by "around".
    "If you're going to horse around, we'll never get this done."

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 →

horse used as a noun:

  1. A hoofed mammal (scientific name Equus caballus).
    "A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse."
  2. Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including the zebra or the ass.
    "These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses."
  3. Cavalry soldiers (often capitalized).
    "We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field."
  4. In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high with two handles on top.
    "She's scored very highly with the parallel bars, let's see how she does with the horse."
  5. The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a man in a suit of armor and often one a horse, hence the nickname.
    "Now just remind me how the horse moves again?"
  6. A large person.
    "Every linebacker they have is a real horse."
  7. A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; foot ropes.
  8. Heroin.
    "Alright, mate, got any horse?"

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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As detailed above, 'horse' can be a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: If you're going to horse around, we'll never get this done.
  2. Noun usage: A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.
  3. Noun usage: These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.
  4. Noun usage: We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field.
  5. Noun usage: All the King's Horse and all the King's Men, couldn't put Humpty together again.
  6. Noun usage: She's scored very highly with the parallel bars, let's see how she does with the horse.
  7. Noun usage: Now just remind me how the horse moves again?
  8. Noun usage: Every linebacker they have is a real horse.
  9. Noun usage: Alright, mate, got any horse?

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