Word Type
Book can be a verb or a noun.
book used as a verb:
- To reserve (something) for future use.
"I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night" - To penalise (someone) for an offence.
"The police booked him for driving too fast" - To travel very fast.
"He was really booking, until he passed the speed trap." - To write down.
"They booked that message from the hill" - To receive the highest grade in a class.
"The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class."
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 →
book used as a noun:
- A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc. If initially blank, commonly referred to as a notebook.
"She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud." - A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets.
"I have three copies of his first book." - A major division of a long work.
"Genesis is the first book of the Bible." - A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
"I'm running a book on who is going to win the race." - A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
"a book of stamps" - The script of a musical.
- Records of the accounts of a business.
- A long document stored (as data) that is or will become a book; an e-book.
- A colloquial reference to a book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
- four of a kind
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 book?
- Verb usage: I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night
- Verb usage: I can book tickets for the concert next week
- Verb usage: The police booked him for driving too fast
- Verb usage: He was really booking, until he passed the speed trap.
- Verb usage: They booked that message from the hill
- Verb usage: The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class.
- Noun usage: She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.
- Noun usage: I have three copies of his first book.
- Noun usage: Genesis is the first book of the Bible.
- Noun usage: Many readers find the first book of A Tale of Two Cities to be confusing.
- Noun usage: I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.
- Noun usage: a book of stamps
- Noun usage: a book of raffle tickets
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of book 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 book, 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).