Word Type
Treat can be a noun or a verb.
treat used as a noun:
- A parley or discussion of terms; a negotiation.
- An entreaty.
- An entertainment, outing, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others.
"I took the kids to the zoo for a treat." - An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure.
"It was such a treat to see her back in action on the London stage."
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 →
treat used as a verb:
- To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with).
"We treated with Caesar for the surrender of the city." - To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion.
"Cicero's writing treats mainly of old age and personal duty." - To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking.
"The article treated feminism as a quintessentially modern movement." - To entreat or beseech (someone).
"Only let my family live, I treat thee." - To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way.
"You treated me like a fool." - To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to.
"I treated my son to some popcorn in the interval." - To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to.
"They treated me for malaria." - To subject to a chemical or other action; to act upon with a specific scientific result in mind.
"The substance was treated with sulphuric acid."
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 treat?
- Noun usage: I took the kids to the zoo for a treat.
- Noun usage: It was such a treat to see her back in action on the London stage.
- Verb usage: We treated with Caesar for the surrender of the city.
- Verb usage: Cicero's writing treats mainly of old age and personal duty.
- Verb usage: The article treated feminism as a quintessentially modern movement.
- Verb usage: Only let my family live, I treat thee.
- Verb usage: You treated me like a fool.
- Verb usage: She was tempted to treat the whole affair as a joke.
- Verb usage: I treated my son to some popcorn in the interval.
- Verb usage: They treated me for malaria.
- Verb usage: The substance was treated with sulphuric acid.
- Verb usage: I treated the photo somewhat to make the colours more pronounced.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of treat 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 treat, 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).
