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Peg can be a noun or a verb.

peg used as a noun:

  1. A cylindrical wooden, metal etc. object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
  2. A protrusion used to hang things on.
  3. A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
  4. A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.

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 →

peg used as a verb:

  1. To fasten using a peg.
    "Let's peg the rug to the floor."
  2. To affix or pin.
    "I found a tack and pegged your picture to the bulletin board."
  3. To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
  4. To throw.
  5. To indicate or ascribe an attribute to. (Assumed to originate from the use of pegs or pins as markers on a bulletin board or a list.)
    "He's been pegged as a suspect."
  6. To move one's pegs to indicate points scored.
  7. To reach or exceed the maximum value on a scale or gauge.
    "We pegged the speedometer across the flats."
  8. To engage in anal sex by penetrating one's male partner with a dildo

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 peg?

As detailed above, 'peg' can be a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: Let's peg the rug to the floor.
  2. Verb usage: I found a tack and pegged your picture to the bulletin board.
  3. Verb usage: She lunged forward and pegged him to the wall.
  4. Verb usage: He's been pegged as a suspect.
  5. Verb usage: I pegged his weight at 165.
  6. Verb usage: We pegged the speedometer across the flats.

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