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Triple can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
triple used as a noun:
- A drink with three portions of alcohol.
"I've had a hard day, make that a triple." - A hamburger with three patties.
"I'd like a triple with cheese." - A three-base hit
"The shortstop hit a triple to lead off the ninth." - A takeout shot in which three stones are removed from play.
- A sequence of three elements or 3-tuple.
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 →
triple used as an adjective:
- Made up of three related elements, often matching
"The triple markings on this vase are quite unique." - Three times the quantity
"Give me a triple serving of mashed potatoes." - Designed for three users
"a triple room" - Folded in three; composed of three layers
- Having three aspects; very ambiguous.
"a triple meaning" - Of time, three times as fast as very fast.
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 →
triple used as a verb:
- To multiply by three
"The company tripled their earnings per share over last quarter." - To get a three-base hit
"The batter tripled into the gap." - To become three times as large
"Our earnings have tripled in the last year."
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 triple?
- Noun usage: I've had a hard day, make that a triple.
- Noun usage: I'd like a triple with cheese.
- Noun usage: The shortstop hit a triple to lead off the ninth.
- Adjective usage: The triple markings on this vase are quite unique.
- Adjective usage: Give me a triple serving of mashed potatoes.
- Adjective usage: a triple room
- Adjective usage: a triple meaning
- Verb usage: The company tripled their earnings per share over last quarter.
- Verb usage: The batter tripled into the gap.
- Verb usage: Our earnings have tripled in the last year.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of triple 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 triple, 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).
