Word Type
Move can be a noun or a verb.
move used as a noun:
- The act of moving; a movement.
- An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
- A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
"She always gets spontaneous applause for that one move." - The event of changing one's residence.
- The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another when it's one's turn to play.
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 →
move used as a verb:
- To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another; as, a ship moves rapidly.
- To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act; as, to move in a matter.
- To change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place.
- To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game.
- To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a carriage.
- To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king.
- To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
- To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion; to touch pathetically; to excite, as an emotion.
- To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to adjourn.
- To incite, urge (someone to do something); to sollicit (someone for or of an issue); to make a proposal to.
- To apply to, as for aid.
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 move?
- Noun usage: She always gets spontaneous applause for that one move.
- Noun usage: He can win a match with that one move.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of move 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 move, 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).