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Red can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.

red used as an adjective:

  1. Having red as its colour.
    "The girl wore a red skirt."
  2. Of hair, having an orange-brown colour; ginger.
    "Her hair had red highlights."
  3. Leftwing, socialist or communist.
  4. Supportive of or dominated by the Republican Party.
    "a red state"
  5. Of, pertaining to, or run by (a member of) the Republican Party.
    "a red advertisement"
  6. Supportive of the Labour Party.
  7. Of the lower-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.

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 →

red used as a noun:

  1. Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters.
  2. A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
  3. One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
  4. The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
  5. a type of firecracker.

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 →

red used as a verb:

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 red?

As detailed above, 'red' can be an adjective, a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Adjective usage: The girl wore a red skirt.
  2. Adjective usage: Her hair had red highlights.
  3. Adjective usage: a red state
  4. Adjective usage: a red Congress
  5. Adjective usage: a red advertisement

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