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

trust used as an adjective:

  1. Secure, safe.
  2. Faithful, dependable.

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 →

trust used as a noun:

  1. Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
    "1671, O ever-failing trust / In mortal strength! — John Milton, Samson Agonistes"
  2. Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
    "1611, Such trust have we through Christ. — Authorised Version, 2 Corinthians iii:4."
  3. Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
    "I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust."
  4. Trustworthiness, reliability.
  5. The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
  6. A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.

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 →

trust used as a verb:

  1. To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in.
    "We can not trust those who have deceived us."
  2. To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
    "Trust me, you look well. --"
  3. To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
    "I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face. --2 John 12."
  4. to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.
    "Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain. --John Dryden."
  5. To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.
    "Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay."
  6. To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
    "Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods."
  7. To risk; to venture confidently.
    "[Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side. -- John Milton."
  8. To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
    "More to know could not be more to trust. --"
  9. To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
    "I will trust and not be afraid. --Isa. xii. 2."
  10. To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
    "It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust. --Johnson."

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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As detailed above, 'trust' can be an adjective, a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: 1671, O ever-failing trust / In mortal strength! — John Milton, Samson Agonistes
  2. Noun usage: 1611, Such trust have we through Christ. — Authorised Version, 2 Corinthians iii:4.
  3. Noun usage: I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust.
  4. Verb usage: We can not trust those who have deceived us.
  5. Verb usage: I will never trust his word after. --
  6. Verb usage: He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived. --Johnson.
  7. Verb usage: Trust me, you look well. --
  8. Verb usage: I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face. --2 John 12.
  9. Verb usage: We trust we have a good conscience. --Heb. xiii. 18.
  10. Verb usage: Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain. --John Dryden.
  11. Verb usage: Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay.
  12. Verb usage: Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
  13. Verb usage: [Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side. -- John Milton.
  14. Verb usage: More to know could not be more to trust. --
  15. Verb usage: I will trust and not be afraid. --Isa. xii. 2.
  16. Verb usage: It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust. --Johnson.

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

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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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