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Rescue can be a verb or a noun.
rescue used as a verb:
- To save from any violence, danger or evil.
"The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche" - To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
"to rescue a prisoner from the enemy" - To recover forcibly
- To deliver by arms, notably from a siege
- To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
"Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls"
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 →
rescue used as a noun:
- An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
- A liberation, freeing.
- The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril
"The rescue of Jerusalem was the original motive of the Crusaders" - A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded
- A rescuee.
"The dog proved a rescue with some behavior issues."
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 rescue?
- Verb usage: The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche
- Verb usage: to rescue a prisoner from the enemy
- Verb usage: Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls
- Noun usage: The rescue of Jerusalem was the original motive of the Crusaders
- Noun usage: The dog proved a rescue with some behavior issues.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of rescue 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 rescue, 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).
