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Splash can be a , a noun or a verb.
splash used as a noun:
- The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
"I heard a splash when the rock landed in the pond." - An impact or impression.
"The new movie made quite a splash upon its release."
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 →
splash used as a verb:
- To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
"sit and splash in the bathtub" - To disperse a fluid suddenly; to splatter.
"water splashed everywhere" - To create an impact or impression; to print, post or publicize prominently.
"The headline was splashed across newspapers everywhere." - To launch a ship.
"1999 David M. Kennedy, "Victory at Sea", Atlantic Monthly, March 1999:"
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 splash?
- Noun usage: I heard a splash when the rock landed in the pond.
- Noun usage: The new movie made quite a splash upon its release.
- Verb usage: sit and splash in the bathtub
- Verb usage: 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “She Moves On”, The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.
- Verb usage: I know the reason I feel so blessed / My heart still splashes inside my chest
- Verb usage: water splashed everywhere
- Verb usage: The headline was splashed across newspapers everywhere.
- Verb usage: 1999 David M. Kennedy, "Victory at Sea", Atlantic Monthly, March 1999:
- Verb usage: In the two years following Midway, Japanese shipyards managed to splash only six additional fleet carriers. The United States in the same period added seventeen, along with ten medium carriers and eighty-six escort carriers.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of splash 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 splash, 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).
