Word Type
Place can be a noun or a verb.
place used as a noun:
- A location or position.
- An open space, courtyard, market square.
- A group of houses.
"They live in Westminster Place." - A region of a land.
"He is going back to his native place on vacation." - Somewhere for a person to sit.
"We asked the restaurant to give us a table with three places." - A frame of mind.
"I'm in a strange place at the moment." - A house or home.
"Do you want to come over to my place later?" - A role or purpose; a station.
"It is really not my place to say what is right and wrong in this case." - Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
"three decimal places" - The position of a contestant in a competition.
"We thought we would win but only ended up in fourth place." - The position as a member of a sports team.
"He lost his place in the national team."
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 →
place used as a verb:
- To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
- To earn a given spot in a competition.
- To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
"I've seen him before, but I can't quite place where." - To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
- To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
- To arrange for or to make (a bet).
- To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
"They phoned hoping to place her in the management team."
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 place?
- Noun usage: They live in Westminster Place.
- Noun usage: He is going back to his native place on vacation.
- Noun usage: We asked the restaurant to give us a table with three places.
- Noun usage: I'm in a strange place at the moment.
- Noun usage: Do you want to come over to my place later?
- Noun usage: It is really not my place to say what is right and wrong in this case.
- Noun usage: three decimal places
- Noun usage: the hundreds place
- Noun usage: We thought we would win but only ended up in fourth place.
- Noun usage: He lost his place in the national team.
- Verb usage: I've seen him before, but I can't quite place where.
- Verb usage: They phoned hoping to place her in the management team.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of place 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 place, 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).
