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Pig can be a verb or a noun.

pig used as a verb:

  1. to give birth.
    "The black sow pigged at seven this morning."
  2. To eat greedily (also pig out), or in a noisy or dirty fashion.
    "They were pigging on the free food at the bar."

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 →

pig used as a noun:

  1. Any of several mammals of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated farm animal Sus scrofa.
    "The farmer kept a pen with two pigs that he fed from table scraps and field waste."
  2. (specifically) A young swine, a piglet.
  3. The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
    "Some religions prohibit their adherents from eating pig."
  4. Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
    "You gluttonous pig! Now that you've eaten all the cupcakes, there will be none for the party!"
  5. A nasty or disgusting person.
    "She considered him a pig as he invariably stared at her bosom when they talked."
  6. A dirty or slovenly person.
    "He was a pig and his apartment a pigpen; take-away containers and pizza boxes in a long, moldy stream lined his counter tops."
  7. A police officer.
    "The protester shouted, “Don't give in to the pigs!” as he was arrested."
  8. A difficult problem.
    "Hrm...this one's a real pig: I've been banging my head against the wall over it for hours!"
  9. A block of cast metal.
    "The conveyor carried the pigs from the smelter to the freight cars."
  10. The mold in which a block of metal is cast.
    "The pig was cracked, and molten metal was oozing from the side."
  11. A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.
    "Unfortunately, the pig sent to clear the obstruction got lodged in a tight bend, adding to the problem."
  12. a pigeon.

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 pig?

As detailed above, 'pig' can be a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: The black sow pigged at seven this morning.
  2. Verb usage: They were pigging on the free food at the bar.
  3. Noun usage: The farmer kept a pen with two pigs that he fed from table scraps and field waste.
  4. Noun usage: Some religions prohibit their adherents from eating pig.
  5. Noun usage: You gluttonous pig! Now that you've eaten all the cupcakes, there will be none for the party!
  6. Noun usage: She considered him a pig as he invariably stared at her bosom when they talked.
  7. Noun usage: He was a pig and his apartment a pigpen; take-away containers and pizza boxes in a long, moldy stream lined his counter tops.
  8. Noun usage: The protester shouted, “Don't give in to the pigs!” as he was arrested.
  9. Noun usage: Hrm...this one's a real pig: I've been banging my head against the wall over it for hours!
  10. Noun usage: The conveyor carried the pigs from the smelter to the freight cars.
  11. Noun usage: After the ill-advised trade, the investor was stuck with worthless options for 10,000 tons of iron pig.
  12. Noun usage: The pig was cracked, and molten metal was oozing from the side.
  13. Noun usage: Unfortunately, the pig sent to clear the obstruction got lodged in a tight bend, adding to the problem.

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