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Retire can be a noun or a verb.
retire used as a noun:
- The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires.
"His retire is by a lake." - A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
"At the retire, the cavalry fell back."
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 →
retire used as a verb:
- To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
"He retired himself from the party." - To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.
"The central bank retired those notes five years ago." - To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list; as, to retire a military or naval officer.
"The board retired the old major." - of a batsman, to voluntarily stop batting so that the next batsman can bat
"Jones retired in favour of Smith." - of a fielder, to make a defensive play which results in a runner or the batter being put out
"Jones retired Smith 6-3." - To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy; as, to retire to his home; to retire from the world, or from notice.
"I will retire to the study." - To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle.
"The regiment retired from the fray after the Major was killed." - To withdraw from a public station, from working, or from business
"Having made a large fortune, he retired." - To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.
"Past the point, the shore retires into a sequence of coves." - To go to bed; as, he usually retires early.
"I will retire for the night."
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 retire?
- Noun usage: His retire is by a lake.
- Noun usage: At the retire, the cavalry fell back.
- Verb usage: He retired himself from the party.
- Verb usage: The central bank retired those notes five years ago.
- Verb usage: The board retired the old major.
- Verb usage: Jones retired in favour of Smith.
- Verb usage: Jones retired Smith 6-3.
- Verb usage: I will retire to the study.
- Verb usage: The regiment retired from the fray after the Major was killed.
- Verb usage: Having made a large fortune, he retired.
- Verb usage: He wants to retire at 55.
- Verb usage: Past the point, the shore retires into a sequence of coves.
- Verb usage: I will retire for the night.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of retire 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 retire, 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).
