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Pop can be a noun, an adjective, an interjection or a verb.
pop used as a noun:
- A loud, sharp sound as of a cork coming out of a bottle.
"Listen to the pop of a Champagne cork." - an effervescent or fizzy drink most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.
- Shortened from pop shot, take quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm. Possibly confusion, by assonance, with pot as in pot shot.
"The man with the gun took a pop at the rabbit." - a portion, a quantity dispensed.
"They cost 50 pence a pop." - Affectionate form of father.
"My pop used to tell me to do my homework every night." - Pop music.
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 →
pop used as an adjective:
- Popular.
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 →
pop used as an interjection:
- Sound made in imitation of the sound.
An interjection is an abrupt remark like Oh! or Dear me, or Eww. It is usually used to express the strong emotions of the speaker. The sentence 'Congratulations! You won the gold medal!' shows the use of 'congratulations' as an interjection. Learn more →
pop used as a verb:
- to burst something
"The boy with the pin popped the balloon." - to act suddenly, unexpectedly or quickly.
- to hit.
"He gave me a pop on the nose." - to ejaculate.
- To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.
- to place something somewhere.
"Just pop it in the fridge for now." - To swallow (a tablet of a drug).
"1994, Ruth Garner, Patricia A Alexander, Beliefs about text and instruction with text" - To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle.
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 pop?
- Noun usage: Listen to the pop of a Champagne cork.
- Noun usage: The man with the gun took a pop at the rabbit.
- Noun usage: They cost 50 pence a pop.
- Noun usage: My pop used to tell me to do my homework every night.
- Verb usage: The boy with the pin popped the balloon.
- Verb usage: He gave me a pop on the nose.
- Verb usage: Just pop it in the fridge for now.
- Verb usage: 1994, Ruth Garner, Patricia A Alexander, Beliefs about text and instruction with text
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of pop 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 pop, 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).