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In can be a preposition, a noun, an adjective or an adverb.

in used as a preposition:

  1. Contained by.
    "The dog is in the kennel."
  2. Surrounded by.
    "We are in the enemy camp."
  3. Part of; a member of.
    "One in a million."
  4. Pertaining to (that particular thing).
    "He has passed in English."
  5. After a period of time.
    "They said they would call us in a week."
  6. By virtue of; by means of
    "In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment."

  7. "My fat rolls around in folds."
  8. Into.
    "Less water gets in your boots this way."
  9. During (said of periods of time)
    "in the first week of December"

  10. "He stalked away in anger."

Prepositions are used to show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word. Examples of prepositions are: in, during, beside, after, for. In the sentence "Sows suffer in factory farms." The preposition "in" tells us the position of the sow relative to the factory farm. Learn more →

in used as a noun:

  1. A position of power or a way to get it.
    "His parents got him an in with the company"
  2. The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting

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 →

in used as an adjective:

  1. In fashion; popular.
    "Skirts are in this year."

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 →

in used as an adverb:

  1. Located indoors, especially: at home or the office .
    "Is Mr. Smith in?"
  2. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
    "Suddenly a strange man walked in."
  3. Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
    "He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in."
  4. abbreviation of in aid of.
    "What's that in?"

An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →

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What type of word is in?

As detailed above, 'in' can be a preposition, a noun, an adjective or an adverb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Preposition usage: The dog is in the kennel.
  2. Preposition usage: We are in the enemy camp.
  3. Preposition usage: Her plane is in the air.
  4. Preposition usage: One in a million.
  5. Preposition usage: He has passed in English.
  6. Preposition usage: They said they would call us in a week.
  7. Preposition usage: In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
  8. Preposition usage: My fat rolls around in folds.
  9. Preposition usage: Less water gets in your boots this way.
  10. Preposition usage: in the first week of December
  11. Preposition usage: Easter falls in the fourth lunar month
  12. Preposition usage: The country reached a high level of prosperity in his first term.
  13. Preposition usage: He stalked away in anger.
  14. Preposition usage: John is in a coma.
  15. Noun usage: His parents got him an in with the company
  16. Adjective usage: Skirts are in this year.
  17. Adverb usage: Is Mr. Smith in?
  18. Adverb usage: Suddenly a strange man walked in.
  19. Adverb usage: He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
  20. Adverb usage: What's that in?

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