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Water can be a noun or a verb.

water used as a noun:

  1. A clear liquid having the chemical formula H2O, required by all forms of life.
    "May I have a glass of water?"
  2. Mineral water.
    "Perrier is the most popular water in this restaurant."
  3. Spa water.
    "Many people visit Bath to take the waters."
  4. One of the four basic elements.
  5. One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).
  6. A sea belonging to particular country.
    "The boat was found in within the territorial waters."
  7. Any body of water, such as a river or a lake.
    "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. —Psalms 23:2"
  8. Urine.
  9. amniotic fluid.
    "Before the child is born, the pregnant woman’s waters break."
  10. Amniotic fluid.
    "Before the child is born, the pregnant woman’s water breaks."
  11. A state of affairs; conditions; usually with an adjective indicating an adverse condition.
  12. A serving of water.
    "I would like to order a water"
  13. Tap water, or well/pump water, as opposed to bottled water.
    "Do not drink the water."
  14. Particular lakes in the Lake District.
    "That is Coniston Water."

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 →

water used as a verb:

  1. To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).
    "Sally watered the roses."
  2. To provide (animals) with water.
    "I need to go water the cattle."
  3. To urinate.
  4. To dilute. Also 'water down'.
    "Can you water the whisky, please?"
  5. To fill with or secrete water.
    "Chopping onions makes my eyes water."

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 water?

As detailed above, 'water' can be a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: May I have a glass of water?
  2. Noun usage: Your plants need more water.
  3. Noun usage: By the action of electricity, the water was resolved into its two parts, oxygen and hydrogen.
  4. Noun usage: Perrier is the most popular water in this restaurant.
  5. Noun usage: Many people visit Bath to take the waters.
  6. Noun usage: The boat was found in within the territorial waters.
  7. Noun usage: He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. —Psalms 23:2
  8. Noun usage: Before the child is born, the pregnant woman’s waters break.
  9. Noun usage: Before the child is born, the pregnant woman’s water breaks.
  10. Noun usage: I would like to order a water
  11. Noun usage: Do not drink the water.
  12. Noun usage: That is Coniston Water.
  13. Verb usage: Sally watered the roses.
  14. Verb usage: I need to go water the cattle.
  15. Verb usage: Can you water the whisky, please?
  16. Verb usage: Chopping onions makes my eyes water.
  17. Verb usage: The smell of fried onions makes my mouth water.

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