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Trick can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.
trick used as an adjective:
- Something that is unusually stylish or cool.
"Wow, your new sportscar is so trick."
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 →
trick used as a verb:
- To fool; to cause to believe something untrue.
"You tried to trick me when you said that house was underpriced." - to trick out; to mod or customize an object, typically for the purpose of both personalization as well as enhancing the object's performance capabilities and more particularly for the purpose of performing stunts with that object.
"His friends were particularly impressed with the way he tricked out his Ruckus."
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 →
trick used as a noun:
- Something designed to fool or swindle.
"It was just a trick to say that the house was underpriced." - A single piece (or business) of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act.
"And for my next trick, I will pull a wombat out of a duffel bag." - An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
"Tricks of the trade. What's the trick of getting this chair to fold up?" - A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
"I was able to take the second trick with the heart queen." - An act of prostitution. Generally used with turn.
"At the worst point, she was turning ten tricks a day." - A customer to a prostitute.
"As the businessman rounded the corner, she thought, "Here comes another trick."" - An entertaining or difficult physical action.
"That's a nice skateboard, but can you do any tricks on it?" - A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
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 trick?
- Adjective usage: Wow, your new sportscar is so trick.
- Verb usage: You tried to trick me when you said that house was underpriced.
- Verb usage: His friends were particularly impressed with the way he tricked out his Ruckus.
- Noun usage: It was just a trick to say that the house was underpriced.
- Noun usage: And for my next trick, I will pull a wombat out of a duffel bag.
- Noun usage: Tricks of the trade. What's the trick of getting this chair to fold up?
- Noun usage: I was able to take the second trick with the heart queen.
- Noun usage: At the worst point, she was turning ten tricks a day.
- Noun usage: As the businessman rounded the corner, she thought, "Here comes another trick."
- Noun usage: That's a nice skateboard, but can you do any tricks on it?
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of trick 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 trick, 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).
