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Web can be a verb or a noun.

web used as a verb:

  1. to construct or form a web
  2. to cover with a web or network
  3. to ensnare or entangle
  4. to provide with a web

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 →

web used as a noun:

  1. The silken structure a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.A spider's web
    "The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web."
  2. Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which when diagrammed resembles a spider's web.
  3. Specifically, the World Wide Web (often capitalized Web).
    "Let me search the web for that."
  4. The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing. A baseball glove, with a web between the thumb and forefinger
    "He caught the ball in the web."
  5. A latticed or woven structure.
    "The gazebo's roof was a web made of thin strips of wood."
  6. The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
  7. The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail. Profile of flat-bottomed and bullhead railway rail showing the web
  8. A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds.
    "A duck paddles with its webbed feet."
  9. A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
  10. A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.

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 web?

As detailed above, 'web' can be a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web.
  2. Noun usage: Let me search the web for that.
  3. Noun usage: He caught the ball in the web.
  4. Noun usage: The gazebo's roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
  5. Noun usage: A duck paddles with its webbed feet.

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