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Cover can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
cover used as a noun:
- A lid.
- The hiding from view.
- The front and back of a book or magazine.
- The top sheet of a bed.
- A cover charge.
"There's a $15 cover tonight." - A setting at a restaurant table.
"We need to set another cover for the Smith party." - A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
- A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30 forward of square; a fielder in this position.
- A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
"The open intervals are a cover for the real numbers." - An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
- A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
- In commercial law, a buyer's purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
- An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
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 →
cover used as an adjective:
- Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
- Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
cover used as a verb:
- To place something over or upon to conceal or protect.
- To feature, discuss, or mention.
- To provide enough money for.
"We've earned enough money to cover most of our costs." - To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
- To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing.
- To provide insurance coverage for.
- to copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
"I would like to have my bitch covered next spring."
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 cover?
- Noun usage: There's a $15 cover tonight.
- Noun usage: We need to set another cover for the Smith party.
- Noun usage: The open intervals are a cover for the real numbers.
- Verb usage: We've earned enough money to cover most of our costs.
- Verb usage: I would like to have my bitch covered next spring.
- Verb usage: The stallion has not covered the mare yet.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of cover 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 cover, 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).
