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Rake can be a noun or a verb.

rake used as a noun:

  1. A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting grass or debris, or for loosening soil.
  2. a lot, plenty.
    "Jim has had a rake of trouble with his new car."
  3. the direction of slip during fault movement. The rake is measured within the fault plane.
  4. the sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
  5. a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
    "The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches"
  6. A puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
  7. A man habituated to immoral conduct.
    "We now have rakes in the habit of Roman senators, and grave politicians in the dress of Rakes. — the Spectator"

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 →

rake used as a verb:

  1. To use a rake on (leaves, debris, soil, a lawn, etc) in order to loosen, gather together, or remove debris from.
    "We raked all the leaves into a pile"
  2. To search thoroughly.
    "Detectives appeared, roped the curious people out of the grounds, and raked the place for clews. -- Captain John Blaine"
  3. To spray with gunfire.
    "the enemy machine guns raked the roadway"
  4. To claw at; to scratch.
    "Her sharp fingernails raked the side of my face."
  5. To gather, especially quickly (often as rake in)
    "The casino is just raking in the cash; it's like a license to print money."
  6. jut out (ship’s bow or stern above keel)

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 rake?

As detailed above, 'rake' can be a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: Jim has had a rake of trouble with his new car.
  2. Noun usage: The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches
  3. Noun usage: We now have rakes in the habit of Roman senators, and grave politicians in the dress of Rakes. — the Spectator
  4. Verb usage: We raked all the leaves into a pile
  5. Verb usage: Detectives appeared, roped the curious people out of the grounds, and raked the place for clews. -- Captain John Blaine
  6. Verb usage: the enemy machine guns raked the roadway
  7. Verb usage: Her sharp fingernails raked the side of my face.
  8. Verb usage: The casino is just raking in the cash; it's like a license to print money.

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