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Grip can be a verb or a noun.
grip used as a verb:
- To take hold, particularly with the hand.
"That suitcase is heavy, so grip the handle firmly." - To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.
"He grips me." - To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief
"Let’s grip (get a coffee, hang, take a break, see a movie, etc.)"
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 →
grip used as a noun:
- A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
"It's good to have a firm grip when shaking hands." - A handle or other place to grip.
"There are several good grips on the northern face of this rock." - A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
- A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
- A lot of something.
"That is a grip of cheese." - Influenza, flu.
"She has the grip." - A small travelling-bag.
- Assistance; help or encouragement.
"He gave me a grip." - A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
"You're a real grip."
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 grip?
- Verb usage: That suitcase is heavy, so grip the handle firmly.
- Verb usage: The glue will begin to grip within five minutes.
- Verb usage: After a few slips, the tires gripped the pavement.
- Verb usage: He grips me.
- Verb usage: Let’s grip (get a coffee, hang, take a break, see a movie, etc.)
- Noun usage: It's good to have a firm grip when shaking hands.
- Noun usage: The ball will move differently depending on the grip used when throwing it.
- Noun usage: There are several good grips on the northern face of this rock.
- Noun usage: That is a grip of cheese.
- Noun usage: She has the grip.
- Noun usage: He gave me a grip.
- Noun usage: You're a real grip.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of grip 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 grip, 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).
