Word Type
Leave can be a verb or a noun.
leave used as a verb:
- To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.
"I left my car at home and took a bus to work." - To transfer possession of after death.
"When my father died, he left me the house." - To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
"I'll leave the car in the station so you can pick it up there." - To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
"Can't we just leave this to the experts?" - To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
"I left the country and I left my wife." - To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
"I left the band." - To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
"I think you'd better leave." - To remain (behind); to stay.
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 →
leave used as a noun:
- Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
"I've been given three weeks' leave by my boss." - Permission.
"Might I beg leave to accompany you?" - Farewell, departure.
"I took my leave of the gentleman without a backward glance."
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 leave?
- Verb usage: I left my car at home and took a bus to work.
- Verb usage: The ants did not leave so much as a crumb of bread.
- Verb usage: There's not much food left, we'd better go to the shops.
- Verb usage: When my father died, he left me the house.
- Verb usage: I'll leave the car in the station so you can pick it up there.
- Verb usage: Can't we just leave this to the experts?
- Verb usage: I left the country and I left my wife.
- Verb usage: I left the band.
- Verb usage: I think you'd better leave.
- Noun usage: I've been given three weeks' leave by my boss.
- Noun usage: Might I beg leave to accompany you?
- Noun usage: The applicant now seeks leave to appeal and, if leave be granted, to appeal against these sentences.
- Noun usage: I took my leave of the gentleman without a backward glance.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of leave 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 leave, 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).
