Word Type
Mind can be a verb or a noun.
mind used as a verb:
- To pay attention to.
"Mind the gap." - To care, to object, to have a contrary opinion.
"I don’t mind." - To look after, to take care of.
"Would you mind my bag for me?" - To remember.
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 →
mind used as a noun:
- The ability for rational thought.
"Despite advancing age, his mind was still as sharp as ever." - The ability to be aware of things.
"There was no doubt in his mind that they would win." - The ability to remember things.
"My mind just went blank." - The ability to focus the thoughts.
"I can’t keep my mind on what I’m doing." - Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
"He was one of history’s greatest minds." - Judgment, opinion, or view.
"He changed his mind after hearing the speech." - Desire, inclination, or intention.
"She had a mind to go to Paris." - A healthy mental state.
"I, ______ being of sound mind and body, do hereby..." - The spirit of consciousness regarded as an aspect of reality.
"In the philosophy of mind, dualism is about the relationship between mind and matter."
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 mind?
- Verb usage: Mind the gap.
- Verb usage: Mind one’s manners.
- Verb usage: Mind you, she's very able.
- Verb usage: I don’t mind.
- Verb usage: Would you mind my bag for me?
- Noun usage: Despite advancing age, his mind was still as sharp as ever.
- Noun usage: There was no doubt in his mind that they would win.
- Noun usage: My mind just went blank.
- Noun usage: I can’t keep my mind on what I’m doing.
- Noun usage: He was one of history’s greatest minds.
- Noun usage: He changed his mind after hearing the speech.
- Noun usage: She had a mind to go to Paris.
- Noun usage: A mind to the madness.
- Noun usage: I, ______ being of sound mind and body, do hereby...
- Noun usage: You are losing your mind.
- Noun usage: In the philosophy of mind, dualism is about the relationship between mind and matter.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of mind 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 mind, and guess at its most common usage.
Word Type
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).
