Word Type
Market can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
market used as a noun:
- City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
"The crowds at the market were quite noisy." - An organised, often periodic, trading event at such site
"The privilege to hold a weekly market was invaluable for any feudal era burgh" - A group of potential customers for one's product.
"We believe that the market for the new widget is the older homeowner." - A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exist
"Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta" - A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects
"The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets" - The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
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 →
market used as an adjective:
- Relating to a (commercial) market.
"We waited to hear the latest market results."
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 →
market used as a verb:
- To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
"We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter." - To sell
"We marketed more this quarter already then all last year!"
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 market?
- Noun usage: The crowds at the market were quite noisy.
- Noun usage: We're going to the market to get some fresh vegetables and fruits.
- Noun usage: The privilege to hold a weekly market was invaluable for any feudal era burgh
- Noun usage: We believe that the market for the new widget is the older homeowner.
- Noun usage: Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta
- Noun usage: The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets
- Adjective usage: We waited to hear the latest market results.
- Verb usage: We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.
- Verb usage: We marketed more this quarter already then all last year!
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of market 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 market, 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).
