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adapter is a noun:
- One who is capable of adapting well to differing situations.
"He was an able adapter, and could easily adjust to the differences when the company changed ownership." - One who adapts a thing, e.g. a play.
"The critic gave rave reviews to the adapter of the ancient play, who worked to give the text more relevance to the modern day." - A device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible.
"He had an adapter that let him plug his phone into the car's cigarette lighter for power." - Specifically, a device that permits two, three, or more plugs to be used at a single electrical power point.
"The wall outlet sprouted an electrical monstrosity of adapters plugged into adapters that sparked ominously." - Specifically, a device that allows one format of plug to be used with a different format of socket.
"We bought adapters to use our three-prong plugs in the two-prong, unpolarized outlets of the old house."
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 adapter?
- Noun usage: He was an able adapter, and could easily adjust to the differences when the company changed ownership.
- Noun usage: The critic gave rave reviews to the adapter of the ancient play, who worked to give the text more relevance to the modern day.
- Noun usage: He had an adapter that let him plug his phone into the car's cigarette lighter for power.
- Noun usage: The wall outlet sprouted an electrical monstrosity of adapters plugged into adapters that sparked ominously.
- Noun usage: We bought adapters to use our three-prong plugs in the two-prong, unpolarized outlets of the old house.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of adapter 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 adapter, 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).