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Peel can be a verb or a noun.

peel used as a verb:

  1. To plunder; to pillage, rob.
  2. To remove the skin or outer covering of.
    "I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her."
  3. To remove from the outer or top layer of.
    "I peeled the skin from an orange and ate it hungrily."
  4. To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
    "I had been out in the sun too long, and my nose was starting to peel."
  5. To remove one's clothing.
    "The children peeled by the side of the lake and jumped in."
  6. To move, separate (off or away)
    "The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines."
  7. To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
  8. to sound loudly.

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 →

peel used as a noun:

  1. The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable etc. (usually )
  2. The action of peeling away from a formation.
  3. A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or exfoliate.
  4. A stake.
  5. A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
  6. A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
  7. A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
  8. A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
  9. The blade of an oar.
  10. An equal or match; a draw.
  11. A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.

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 peel?

As detailed above, 'peel' can be a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her.
  2. Verb usage: I peeled the skin from an orange and ate it hungrily.
  3. Verb usage: We peeled the old wallpaper off in strips where it was hanging loose.
  4. Verb usage: I had been out in the sun too long, and my nose was starting to peel.
  5. Verb usage: The children peeled by the side of the lake and jumped in.
  6. Verb usage: The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines.

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

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