Word Type
Ease can be a noun or a verb.
ease used as a noun:
- The state of being comfortable or free from stress.
"She enjoyed the ease of living in a house where the servants did all the work." - Freedom from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
"His mind was at ease when he received his pension." - Freedom from effort, difficulty or hardship.
"He passed all the exams with ease." - Dexterity or facility.
"He played the organ with ease." - Affluence and freedom from financial problems.
"After winning the jackpot, she lived a life of luxurious ease." - Relaxation, rest and leisure.
"We took our ease on the patio."
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 →
ease used as a verb:
- To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
"He eased his conscience by confessing." - To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain).
"He loosened his shoe to ease the pain." - To give respite to (someone).
"The provision of extra staff eased their workload." - To loosen or slacken the tension on (something).
"We eased the rope, then lowered the sail." - To reduce the difficulty of (something).
"We had to ease the entry requirements." - To move (something) slowly and carefully.
"He eased the cork from the bottle." - To lessen in severity.
"The pain eased overnight." - To proceed with little effort.
"The car eased onto the motorway."
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 ease?
- Noun usage: She enjoyed the ease of living in a house where the servants did all the work.
- Noun usage: His mind was at ease when he received his pension.
- Noun usage: He passed all the exams with ease.
- Noun usage: He played the organ with ease.
- Noun usage: After winning the jackpot, she lived a life of luxurious ease.
- Noun usage: We took our ease on the patio.
- Verb usage: He eased his conscience by confessing.
- Verb usage: He loosened his shoe to ease the pain.
- Verb usage: The provision of extra staff eased their workload.
- Verb usage: We eased the rope, then lowered the sail.
- Verb usage: We had to ease the entry requirements.
- Verb usage: He eased the cork from the bottle.
- Verb usage: The pain eased overnight.
- Verb usage: The car eased onto the motorway.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of ease 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 ease, 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).
