Word Type
Account can be a verb or a noun.
account used as a verb:
- To reckon; to compute; to count.
"The motion of... the sun whereby years are accounted. - Sir Thomas Browne" - To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign. Edward Hyde Clarendon
- To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.
- To render or receive an account or relation of particulars
"An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received." - To render an account; to answer in judgement.
"We must account for the use of our opportunities." - To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain
"Idleness accounts for poverty." - To get revenge on.
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 →
account used as a noun:
- A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning
- A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.
- A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.
- A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.
- A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgement thereon.
- An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgement.
- Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.
- A subscription to a service.
"I've opened an account with Wikipedia so that I can contribute and partake in the project."
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 account?
- Verb usage: The motion of... the sun whereby years are accounted. - Sir Thomas Browne
- Verb usage: An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
- Verb usage: We must account for the use of our opportunities.
- Verb usage: Idleness accounts for poverty.
- Noun usage: I've opened an account with Wikipedia so that I can contribute and partake in the project.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of account 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 account, 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).
