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Land can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
land used as an adjective:
- Of or relating to land.
- Residing or growing on land.
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 →
land used as a noun:
- The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
"Most insects live on land." - real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
"There are 50 acres of land in this estate." - A country or region.
"They come from a faraway land." - A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
- Ground that is suitable for farming.
"Plant the potatoes in the land." - (Ireland / colloquial) a fright.
"He got an awful land when the police arrived." - A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
- In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
- The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
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 →
land used as a verb:
- To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
"The plane is about to land." - To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
"1859 Easton, Alexander, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways, p 108, "Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.":" - To come into rest.
- To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
- To bring to land.
"It can be tricky to land a helicopter." - To acquire; to secure.
- To deliver.
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 land?
- Noun usage: Most insects live on land.
- Noun usage: There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
- Noun usage: They come from a faraway land.
- Noun usage: Plant the potatoes in the land.
- Noun usage: He got an awful land when the police arrived.
- Verb usage: The plane is about to land.
- Verb usage: 1859 Easton, Alexander, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways, p 108, "Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.":
- Verb usage: 10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed.
- Verb usage: It can be tricky to land a helicopter.
- Verb usage: Use the net to land the fish.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of land 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 land, 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).
