Word Type
Purchase can be a verb or a noun.
purchase used as a verb:
- To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain,or acquire.
- To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
"to purchase land, to purchase a house." - To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
"to purchase favor with flattery." - To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
- To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to.
"to purchase a cannon" - To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one's self.
- To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
"Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution"
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 →
purchase used as a noun:
- The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)
- An individual item one has purchased.
- The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
"They offer free with the purchase of a drink." - That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
- That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
"He was pleased with his latest purchase." - (uncountable) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
"It is hard to get purchase on a nail without a pry bar or hammer." - The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained.
- (rock climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
- Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
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 purchase?
- Verb usage: to purchase land, to purchase a house.
- Verb usage: to purchase favor with flattery.
- Verb usage: to purchase a cannon
- Verb usage: Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution
- Noun usage: They offer free with the purchase of a drink.
- Noun usage: He was pleased with his latest purchase.
- Noun usage: It is hard to get purchase on a nail without a pry bar or hammer.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of purchase 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 purchase, 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).
