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Shadow can be a verb or a noun.
shadow used as a verb:
- To block light or radio transmission.
"Looks like that cloud's going to shadow us." - To secretly or discretely track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
- To make an identifier, usually a variable, inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first.
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 →
shadow used as a noun:
- A dark image projected onto a surface where light is blocked by the shade of an object.
"My shadow lengthened as the sun began to set." - Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom, obscurity.
"I immediately jumped into shadow as I saw them approach." - That which looms as though a shadow.
"I don't have a shadow of doubt in my mind that my plan will succeed." - Merely a hint of substance.
"He came back from war the shadow of a man." - One who secretly or furtively follows another.
"The constable was promoted to working as a shadow for the Royals." - A type of lettering form of word processors that makes a cubic effect.
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 shadow?
- Verb usage: Looks like that cloud's going to shadow us.
- Noun usage: My shadow lengthened as the sun began to set.
- Noun usage: I immediately jumped into shadow as I saw them approach.
- Noun usage: I don't have a shadow of doubt in my mind that my plan will succeed.
- Noun usage: The shadow of fear of me being outed always affects how I live my life.
- Noun usage: I lived in her shadow my whole life.
- Noun usage: He came back from war the shadow of a man.
- Noun usage: He did not give even a shadow of respect to the professor.
- Noun usage: The constable was promoted to working as a shadow for the Royals.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of shadow 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 shadow, 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).
