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appoint is a verb:
- To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
"When he appointed the foundations of the earth. --Prov. viii. 29." - To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.
"Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint. --2 Sam. xv. 15." - To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
"Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service. --Num. iv. 19." - To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
"The English, being well appointed, did so entertain them that their ships departed terribly torn. --Hayward." - , (Law): To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance;—said of an estate already conveyed. --Alexander Mansfield Burrill. Kent.
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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- Verb usage: When he appointed the foundations of the earth. --Prov. viii. 29.
- Verb usage: Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint. --2 Sam. xv. 15.
- Verb usage: He hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness. --Acts xvii. 31.
- Verb usage: Say that the emperor requests a parley ... and appoint the meeting. -- Shakspeare Titus Andronicus IV iv.
- Verb usage: Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service. --Num. iv. 19.
- Verb usage: These were cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. --Josh. xx. 9.
- Verb usage: The English, being well appointed, did so entertain them that their ships departed terribly torn. --Hayward.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of appoint 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 appoint, 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).
