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Mouth can be a verb or a noun.

mouth used as a verb:

  1. To speak about something.
    "He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting."
  2. To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
    "The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them."
  3. To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
    "The fish mouthed the lure, but didn't bite."

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 →

mouth used as a noun:

  1. The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
    ""Open your mouth and say 'aah'," directed the doctor."
  2. The end of a river out of which water flows.
    "The mouth of the river is a good place to go birdwatching in spring and autumn."
  3. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
    "The mouth of a cave"
  4. A loud or overly talkative person.
    "My kid sister is a real mouth; she never shuts up."

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 mouth?

As detailed above, 'mouth' can be a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting.
  2. Verb usage: The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.
  3. Verb usage: The fish mouthed the lure, but didn't bite.
  4. Noun usage: "Open your mouth and say 'aah'," directed the doctor.
  5. Noun usage: The mouth of the river is a good place to go birdwatching in spring and autumn.
  6. Noun usage: The mouth of a cave
  7. Noun usage: My kid sister is a real mouth; she never shuts up.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of mouth 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 mouth, and guess at its most common usage.

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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).

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