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Here can be a noun, an interjection, an adjective or an adverb.
here used as a noun:
- This place; this location.
"An Alzheimer patient's here may in his mind be anywhere he called home in the time he presently re-lives." - This time, the present situation.
"Here in history, we are less diligent about quashing monopolies."
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 →
here used as an interjection:
- used for emphasis at the beginning of a sentence when expressing an opinion or want.
"Here, I'm tired and I want a drink."
An interjection is an abrupt remark like Oh! or Dear me, or Eww. It is usually used to express the strong emotions of the speaker. The sentence 'Congratulations! You won the gold medal!' shows the use of 'congratulations' as an interjection. Learn more →
here used as an adjective:
- filler after a noun or demonstrative pronoun, solely for emphasis
"John here is a rascal." - filler after a demonstrative pronoun but before the noun it modifies, solely for emphasis
"This here orange is too sour."
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 →
here used as an adverb:
- In, on, or at this place.
- Here I am!
- To this place; used in place of the more dated hither.
"Please come here." - In this context.
"Derivatives can refer to anything that is derived from something else, but here they refer specifically to functions that give the slope of the tangent line to a curve."
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
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What type of word is here?
- Noun usage: An Alzheimer patient's here may in his mind be anywhere he called home in the time he presently re-lives.
- Noun usage: Here in history, we are less diligent about quashing monopolies.
- Interjection usage: Here, I'm tired and I want a drink.
- Adjective usage: John here is a rascal.
- Adjective usage: This here orange is too sour.
- Adverb usage: Please come here.
- Adverb usage: Derivatives can refer to anything that is derived from something else, but here they refer specifically to functions that give the slope of the tangent line to a curve.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of here 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 here, 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).
