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Whisk can be a noun or a verb.
whisk used as a noun:
- A quick, light sweeping motion.
"With a quick whisk, she swept the cat from the pantry with her broom." - A kitchen utensil, made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle, used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).
"He used a whisk to whip up a light and airy souffle." - A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush.
"Peter dipped the whisk in lather and applied it to his face, so he could start shaving." - A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
"I used a whisk to sweep the counter, then a push-broom for the floor."
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 →
whisk used as a verb:
- To move something with quick light sweeping motions.
"Vernon whisked the sawdust from his workbench." - In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.
"The chef prepared to whisk the egg whites for the angel's food cake." - To move something rapidly and with no warning.
"The governess whisked the children from the room before they could see their presents." - To move lightly and nimbly.
"The children whisked down the road to the fair, laughing and chattering as they went."
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 whisk?
- Noun usage: With a quick whisk, she swept the cat from the pantry with her broom.
- Noun usage: He used a whisk to whip up a light and airy souffle.
- Noun usage: Peter dipped the whisk in lather and applied it to his face, so he could start shaving.
- Noun usage: I used a whisk to sweep the counter, then a push-broom for the floor.
- Verb usage: Vernon whisked the sawdust from his workbench.
- Verb usage: The chef prepared to whisk the egg whites for the angel's food cake.
- Verb usage: The governess whisked the children from the room before they could see their presents.
- Verb usage: The children whisked down the road to the fair, laughing and chattering as they went.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of whisk 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 whisk, 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).