Word Type
Dynamic can be a noun or an adjective.
dynamic used as a noun:
- A characteristic or manner of an interaction; a behavior.
"Watch the dynamic between the husband and wife when they disagree." - The varying loudness or volume of a song or the markings that indicate the loudness.
"If you pay attention to the dynamics as you play, it's a very moving piece." - A symbol in a musical score that indicates the desired level of volume.
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 →
dynamic used as an adjective:
- Changeable; active; in motion usually as the result of an external force.
"The environment is dynamic, changing with the years and the seasons." - Powerful
- Able to change and to adapt
- Having to do with the volume of sound.
"The dynamic marking in bar 40 is forte." - happening at runtime instead of at compile time
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 dynamic?
- Noun usage: Watch the dynamic between the husband and wife when they disagree.
- Noun usage: The study of fluid dynamics quantifies turbulent and laminar flows.
- Noun usage: If you pay attention to the dynamics as you play, it's a very moving piece.
- Adjective usage: The environment is dynamic, changing with the years and the seasons.
- Adjective usage: He was a dynamic and engaging speaker.
- Adjective usage: The dynamic marking in bar 40 is forte.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of dynamic 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 dynamic, 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).
