Word Type
Print can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.
print used as an adjective:
- of, relating to, or writing for printed publications
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
print used as a verb:
- To copy something onto a surface, especially by machine.
"Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines." - To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
"Print your name here and sign below." - To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
"How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?"
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 →
print used as a noun:
- Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
"Three citations are required for each meaning, including one in print." - Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
"Write in print using block letters." - The letters forming the text of a document.
"The print is too small for me to read." - A visible impression on a surface.
"Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page." - A fingerprint.
"Did the police find any prints at the scene?" - A footprint.
- A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
- A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
- A copy of a film that can be projected.
- Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
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 print?
- Verb usage: Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines.
- Verb usage: The circuitry is printed onto the semiconductor surface.
- Verb usage: Print your name here and sign below.
- Verb usage: I'm only in grade 2, so I only know how to print.
- Verb usage: How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?
- Noun usage: Three citations are required for each meaning, including one in print.
- Noun usage: TV and the internet haven't killed print.
- Noun usage: Write in print using block letters.
- Noun usage: The print is too small for me to read.
- Noun usage: Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page.
- Noun usage: Did the police find any prints at the scene?
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of print 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 print, 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).