Word Type
Park can be a noun or a verb.
park used as a noun:
- A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.
- A piece of ground, in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation; as, Hyde Park in London; Central Park in New York.
- A space occupied by the animals, wagons, pontoons, and materials of all kinds, as ammunition, ordnance stores, hospital stores, provisions, etc., when brought together; also, the objects themselves; as, a park of wagons, a park of artillery; by extension, an inventory of such materiél, such as a country's tank park or artillery park (rare in US).
- A partially inclosed basin in which oysters are grown.
- An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.
- A grassy basin surrounded by mountains.
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 →
park used as a verb:
- To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place.
- To bring together in a park, or compact body.
- To enclose in a park, or as in a park.
- To hit a home run, to hit the ball out of the park.
"He really parked that one." - To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle.
"They stopped at a romantic overlook, shut off the engine, and parked." - To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time.
"He came in and parked himself in our living room." - To invest money temporarily in an investment instrument considered to relatively free of risk, specially while awaiting other opportunities.
"We decided to park our money in a safe, stable, low-yield bond fund until market conditions improve." - To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking)
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 park?
- Verb usage: He really parked that one.
- Verb usage: They stopped at a romantic overlook, shut off the engine, and parked.
- Verb usage: He came in and parked himself in our living room.
- Verb usage: Park your bags in the hall.
- Verb usage: We decided to park our money in a safe, stable, low-yield bond fund until market conditions improve.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of park 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 park, 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).
