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Lash can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
lash used as a noun:
- The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
"I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it. — Joseph Addison." - A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
- A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.
"The culprit received thirty-nine lashes." - A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
"The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well. — Roger L'Estrange" - A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
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 →
lash used as a verb:
- To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
"We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward. — John Dryden" - To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
"the whale lashes the sea with its tail." - To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
"He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws. — John Dryden" - To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity.
"to lash vice" - To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
"to lash something to a spar" - To ply the whip; to strike.
- To utter censure or sarcastic language.
"To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice. — John Dryden"
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 →
lash used as an adjective:
- Remiss, lax.
- Relaxed.
- Soft, watery, wet.
- excellent, wonderful
"We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash!" - Drunk.
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 →
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What type of word is lash?
- Noun usage: I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it. — Joseph Addison.
- Noun usage: The culprit received thirty-nine lashes.
- Noun usage: The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well. — Roger L'Estrange
- Verb usage: We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward. — John Dryden
- Verb usage: the whale lashes the sea with its tail.
- Verb usage: And big waves lash the frighted shores. — John Dryden
- Verb usage: He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws. — John Dryden
- Verb usage: to lash vice
- Verb usage: to lash something to a spar
- Verb usage: lash a pack on a horse's back
- Verb usage: To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice. — John Dryden
- Adjective usage: We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash!
- Adjective usage: That chinese (food) was lash!
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of lash 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 lash, 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).
