Word Type
Demand can be a verb or a noun.
demand used as a verb:
- To request forcefully.
"I demand to see the manager." - To claim a right to something.
"The bank is demanding the mortgage payment." - To ask forcefully for information.
"I demand an immediate explanation." - To require of someone.
"This job demands a lot of patience." - To issue a summons to court.
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 →
demand used as a noun:
- The desire to purchase goods and services.
"Prices usually go up when demand exceeds supply." - The amount of a good or service that a consumer is willing to buy at a particular price.
- A need.
"There is a demand for voluntary health workers in the poorer parts of Africa and Asia." - A claim for something.
"Modern society is responding to women's demands for equality." - A requirement.
"His job makes many demands on his time." - An urgent request.
"She couldn't ignore the newborn baby's demands for attention." - An order.
- (electric) the measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.
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 demand?
- Verb usage: I demand to see the manager.
- Verb usage: The bank is demanding the mortgage payment.
- Verb usage: I demand an immediate explanation.
- Verb usage: This job demands a lot of patience.
- Noun usage: Prices usually go up when demand exceeds supply.
- Noun usage: There is a demand for voluntary health workers in the poorer parts of Africa and Asia.
- Noun usage: Modern society is responding to women's demands for equality.
- Noun usage: His job makes many demands on his time.
- Noun usage: She couldn't ignore the newborn baby's demands for attention.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of demand 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 demand, and guess at its most common usage.
Word Type
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).
