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Fluke can be a noun or a verb.
fluke used as a noun:
- A lucky or improbable occurrence, with the implication that the occurrence could not be repeated.
"The first goal was just a fluke." - Either of the two lobes of a whale's or similar creature's tail.
"The dolphin had an open wound on the left fluke of its tail where the propeller had injured it." - Any of the triangular blades at the end of an anchor, designed to catch the ground.
"The fluke of the anchor was wedged between two outcroppings of rock and could not be dislodged." - A flounder.
"1949 The Origin of Medical Terms Henry Skinner" - A trematode; a parasitic flatworm of the trematoda class, related to the tapeworm.
"The man had become infected with flukes after eating a meal of raw fish." - A metal hook on the head of certain staff weapons (such as a bill), made in various forms depending on function, whether used for grappling or to penetrate armour when swung at an opponent.
"The polearm had a wide, sharpened fluke attached to the central point." - In general, an offshoot from a central piece.
"After casting the bronze statue, we filed down the flukes and spurs from the molding process."
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 →
fluke used as a verb:
- To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance from a bad shot.
"He fluked the other red into the middle pocket, despite the double kiss."
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 fluke?
- Noun usage: The first goal was just a fluke.
- Noun usage: The dolphin had an open wound on the left fluke of its tail where the propeller had injured it.
- Noun usage: The fluke of the anchor was wedged between two outcroppings of rock and could not be dislodged.
- Noun usage: 1949 The Origin of Medical Terms Henry Skinner
- Noun usage: The fluke or flounder is a flat fish and the parasitic worm was so-named from a fancied resemblance to the fish.
- Noun usage: The man had become infected with flukes after eating a meal of raw fish.
- Noun usage: The polearm had a wide, sharpened fluke attached to the central point.
- Noun usage: After casting the bronze statue, we filed down the flukes and spurs from the molding process.
- Verb usage: He fluked the other red into the middle pocket, despite the double kiss.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of fluke 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 fluke, 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).
