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Quality can be a noun or an adjective.
quality used as a noun:
- Level of excellence
"This school is well-known for having teachers of high quality." - A property or attribute that differentiates a thing or person.
"One of the qualities of pure iron is that it does not rust easily." - In a two-phase liquid-vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.
- High social position.
"A peasant is not allowed to fall in love with a lady of quality." - The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items.
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 →
quality used as an adjective:
- Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.
"We only sell quality products."
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 →
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What type of word is quality?
- Noun usage: This school is well-known for having teachers of high quality.
- Noun usage: Quality of life is usually determined by health, education, and income.
- Noun usage: One of the qualities of pure iron is that it does not rust easily.
- Noun usage: While being impulsive can be great for artists, it is not a desirable quality for engineers.
- Noun usage: Security, stability, and efficiency are good qualities of an operating system.
- Noun usage: A peasant is not allowed to fall in love with a lady of quality.
- Noun usage: Membership of this golf club is limited to those of quality and wealth.
- Adjective usage: We only sell quality products.
- Adjective usage: That was a quality game by Jim Smith.
- Adjective usage: A quality system ensures products meet customer requirements.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of quality 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 quality, 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).
