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Hitch can be a noun or a verb.
hitch used as a noun:
- A sudden pull.
- A noose or knot as used by sailors.
"A knot used to secure a line to a spar, ring, post or the like (Knots and Splices by Cyrus L Day, Adlard Coles Nautical, 2001)" - A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
"His truck sported a heavy-duty hitch for his boat." - A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
"The banquet went off without a hitch. (Meaning the banquet went smoothly.)" - A hidden or unfavorable condition or element; a catch.
"The deal sounds too good to be true. What's the hitch?" - A term generally referring to a period of time in which a person works offshore before returning back to mainland.
"He just came back home from his 14 day hitch offshore."
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 →
hitch used as a verb:
- To pull with a jerk.
"She hitched her jeans up and then tightend her belt." - To attach, tie or fasten.
"He hitched the bedroll to his backpack and went camping." - To marry, especially to get hitched.
- contraction of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
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 hitch?
- Noun usage: A knot used to secure a line to a spar, ring, post or the like (Knots and Splices by Cyrus L Day, Adlard Coles Nautical, 2001)
- Noun usage: His truck sported a heavy-duty hitch for his boat.
- Noun usage: The banquet went off without a hitch. (Meaning the banquet went smoothly.)
- Noun usage: The deal sounds too good to be true. What's the hitch?
- Noun usage: He just came back home from his 14 day hitch offshore.
- Verb usage: She hitched her jeans up and then tightend her belt.
- Verb usage: He hitched the bedroll to his backpack and went camping.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of hitch 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 hitch, 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).
