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Rush can be a noun, an adjective, a verb or a proper noun.
rush used as a noun:
- Any of several stiff aquatic or marsh plants of the genus Juncus having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers.
- The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
- A sudden forward motion.
- A surge.
"A rush of business can be difficult to handle effectively for its unexpected volume." - General haste.
"Many errors were made in the rush to finish." - A rapid, noisy flow.
"a rush of water" - A sudden attack; an onslaught.
- The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
"a rush on the quaterback" - A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
"The rollercoaster gave me a rush." - A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
"rush week"
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 →
rush used as an adjective:
- Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.
"rush job"
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 →
rush used as a verb:
- To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
"rush one's dinner" - To flow rapidly or noisily.
- To dribble rapidly.
- To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
- To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
"Don't rush your client or he may withdraw." - To make a swift or sudden attack.
- To swiftly attach to without warning.
- To transport or carry quickly.
"The shuttle rushes passengers from the station to the airport."
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 →
rush used as a proper noun:
- A dialect of the language PL/1.
A proper noun is a refers to a single, specific person/thing/entity and is used to refer to that person/entity/thing. Examples are London, Jupiter, Sarah, or Microsoft. Proper nouns are distinguished from common nouns, which are words that refer to a class/category of entities (like 'chair', 'grape', and 'computer'). Learn more →
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What type of word is rush?
- Noun usage: A rush of business can be difficult to handle effectively for its unexpected volume.
- Noun usage: Many errors were made in the rush to finish.
- Noun usage: a rush of water
- Noun usage: a rush of footsteps
- Noun usage: a rush on the quaterback
- Noun usage: The rollercoaster gave me a rush.
- Noun usage: rush week
- Adjective usage: rush job
- Verb usage: rush one's dinner
- Verb usage: Don't rush your client or he may withdraw.
- Verb usage: The shuttle rushes passengers from the station to the airport.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of rush 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 rush, 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).
