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Push can be a noun or a verb.
push used as a noun:
- A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
"Give the door a hard push if it sticks." - An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
"One more push and the baby will be out." - A great effort (to do something).
"Some details got lost in the push to get the project done." - A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music.
- A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score
- The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request, as in server push, push technology.
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 →
push used as a verb:
- To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
"In his anger he pushed me against the wall and threatened me." - To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
- To continually attempt to promote (a point of view).
"Stop pushing the issue — I'm not interested." - To promote a product with the intention of selling it.
"They're pushing that perfume again." - To approach; to come close to.
"My old car is pushing 250,000 miles." - To apply a force to an object such that it moves away from the person applying the force.
"You need to push quite hard to get this door open." - To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
"During childbirth, there are times when the obstetrician advises the woman not to push." - To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
- To make a higher bid at an auction
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 push?
- Noun usage: Give the door a hard push if it sticks.
- Noun usage: One more push and the baby will be out.
- Noun usage: Some details got lost in the push to get the project done.
- Noun usage: Let's give one last push on our advertising campaign.
- Verb usage: In his anger he pushed me against the wall and threatened me.
- Verb usage: Stop pushing the issue — I'm not interested.
- Verb usage: They're pushing that perfume again.
- Verb usage: There were two men hanging around the school gates today, pushing drugs.
- Verb usage: My old car is pushing 250,000 miles.
- Verb usage: He's pushing sixty. (= he's nearly sixty years old)
- Verb usage: You need to push quite hard to get this door open.
- Verb usage: During childbirth, there are times when the obstetrician advises the woman not to push.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of push 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 push, 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).
