Word Type
Crock can be a noun or a verb.
crock used as a noun:
- A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
- A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
- A person who is physically limited by age or injury. Old crocks home = home for the aged
- An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse). Old crocks race = veteran car rally
- Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense. (as in "that is a bunch of crock" or "the story is a crock")
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 →
crock used as a verb:
- To break something or injure someone.
""That last time I brought down Barry I crocked him. He's in his study now with a sprained ankle. ..."" - To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
"thus producing a permanent, definite color thereon which will not fade or crock, and at the same time using up all of the coloring matter." - To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
"The pots should be crocked for drainage to one-half their depth and the plants made moderately firm in the compost, as already indicated..."
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 crock?
- Verb usage: "That last time I brought down Barry I crocked him. He's in his study now with a sprained ankle. ..."
- Verb usage: Thousands of cars crocked by dodgy fuel
- Verb usage: Ferreira ... peremptorily expunges England’s World Cup chances by crocking Wayne Rooney.
- Verb usage: thus producing a permanent, definite color thereon which will not fade or crock, and at the same time using up all of the coloring matter.
- Verb usage: Colored fabrics should be dried separately for the first few times to prevent crocking (rubbing off of dye).
- Verb usage: In leather garments, lining also prevents crocking of color onto skin or garments worn underneath.
- Verb usage: The pots should be crocked for drainage to one-half their depth and the plants made moderately firm in the compost, as already indicated...
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of crock 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 crock, 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).
