Word Type
Deep can be a noun, an adverb or an adjective.
deep used as a noun:
- (meaning 1 above) part of a lake, sea, etc.
"creatures of the deep" - The deep (meaning 2 above) part of a problem.
- (with "the"): the sea, the ocean
- A fielding position near the boundary.
"Russell is a safe pair of hands in the deep"
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 →
deep used as an adverb:
- deeply
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
deep used as an adjective:
- Having its bottom far down.
- Profound, having great meaning or import, but possibly obscure or not obvious.
"That is a deep thought" - Seriously or to a significant extent, not superficial.
"I just meant to help out a little, but now I'm deep into it" - In extent in a direction away from the observer.
"The shelves are 30cm deep" - Thick in a vertical direction.
"That cyclist's deep chest allows him to draw more air" - Voluminous
"to take a deep breath / sigh / drink" - Low in pitch
"She has a very deep contralto" - Dark and highly saturated
"That's a very deep shade of blue" - of a fielding position near the boundary, or closer to the boundary than one being compared to.
"He is fielding at deep mid wicket." - a long way inside
"deep into the forest" - a long way forward
"a deep volley" - in a number of rows or layers
"A crowd three deep along the funeral procession" - difficult to awake
"in a deep sleep" - right into one's mind
"He looked deep into her eyes" - with a lot of
"deep in debt" - Relatively farther downfield.
- three deep.
"Cigar Pal broke a bit slow, trailed by more than seven lengths after a half-mile, swung three deep into the stretch, rallied from eighth to make up more than four lengths and was nosed out six furlongs on the turf. (Greg Melikov on http://www.sportsbook.com)"
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 →
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What type of word is deep?
- Noun usage: creatures of the deep
- Noun usage: Russell is a safe pair of hands in the deep
- Adjective usage: That is a deep thought
- Adjective usage: I just meant to help out a little, but now I'm deep into it
- Adjective usage: They're deep in discussion
- Adjective usage: I feel it deep in my heart
- Adjective usage: The shelves are 30cm deep
- Adjective usage: That cyclist's deep chest allows him to draw more air
- Adjective usage: There was a deep layer of soot over the window
- Adjective usage: to take a deep breath / sigh / drink
- Adjective usage: She has a very deep contralto
- Adjective usage: That's a very deep shade of blue
- Adjective usage: He is fielding at deep mid wicket.
- Adjective usage: deep into the forest
- Adjective usage: a deep volley
- Adjective usage: A crowd three deep along the funeral procession
- Adjective usage: in a deep sleep
- Adjective usage: He looked deep into her eyes
- Adjective usage: deep in debt
- Adjective usage: Cigar Pal broke a bit slow, trailed by more than seven lengths after a half-mile, swung three deep into the stretch, rallied from eighth to make up more than four lengths and was nosed out six furlongs on the turf. (Greg Melikov on http://www.sportsbook.com)
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of deep 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 deep, 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).
