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Trade can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.

trade used as an adjective:

  1. relating to or used in or intended for trade or commerce;
    "a trade fair; trade journals; trade goods."

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 →

trade used as a verb:

  1. To engage in trade
    "This company trades in precious metal."
  2. To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
    "stock trade"
  3. To give (something) in exchange for.
    "Will you trade your precious watch for my earring?"
  4. To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.

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 →

trade used as a noun:

  1. the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services.
  2. the collective people who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
    "as they say in the trade."
  3. the skilled practice of a practical occupation
    "He learned his trade as an apprentice."
  4. a particular instance of buying or selling
    "I had no further trade with him."
  5. the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
    "Even before noon there was considerable trade."

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 trade?

As detailed above, 'trade' can be an adjective, a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Adjective usage: a trade fair; trade journals; trade goods.
  2. Verb usage: This company trades in precious metal.
  3. Verb usage: stock trade
  4. Verb usage: Will you trade your precious watch for my earring?
  5. Noun usage: as they say in the trade.
  6. Noun usage: He learned his trade as an apprentice.
  7. Noun usage: I had no further trade with him.
  8. Noun usage: Even before noon there was considerable trade.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of trade 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 trade, 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).

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